User:Chef charles knight

Chef Charles Knight traces his interest in the culinary arts to his childhood and the home kitchens of his diverse ethnic neighborhood of Rahway, New Jersey. In his bestselling cookbook Healthy Meat and Potatoes he wrote; Hearty and delightful meals are created with gentle hands and warm hearts. This I learned as a youngster growing up in the wonderful ethnic mix of New York and New Jersey, with home kitchens brimming with incredible dishes brought with care from the old world. To those around me, good food was the nourishment of both body and soul. This harvest of flavors was the great influence of my boyhood. From the time I was old enough to know my way around the neighborhood family kitchens, I wanted to be a chef. He began his basic culinary training working as a short order cook for Chef William Christmas in the Industrial Kitchen of Phelps Dodge in north Jersey while still in high school. After a four year stint in the US Navy as a Radioman and resident cook for crew 12 of VP8, he returned to New Jersey to work for EKCO Home Products selling cookware and cutlery door-to-door. Along the way he met and became a close friends of America’s pioneer TV Showman Chef Tell Erhardt. In 1983 they revived the Health Craft cookware company name with new and innovative product design. Knight later wrote; Chef Tell, without a doubt, was not only a memorable TV personality, he was one of the greatest chefs who ever lived. I learned a lot (about food) just being in his company all those years. While Chef Tell promoted their cookware line with regular appearances on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, Knight appeared on local TV and radio shows in the Tampa area doing the same. By 1997 they acquired the Arrowhead Cutlery Division from EKCO Home Products. The company Knight once worked for. Knight began focusing on his formal culinary education later in life when his firstborn son David was asked what he wanted for his 15th birthday, his answer “Cooking School”. Off they went together during the summers attending Peter Kump’s Cooking School in New York City, and later earned credits in Nutritional Cuisine from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Chef Charles Knight is the author of numerous cookbooks on health, nutrition and induction cooking, he is an accomplished TV and radio cooking show host, co-creator of Health Craft induction cookware, and recognized worldwide as the foremost expert on the classic methods of waterless / greaseless food preparation and the healthy benefits of energy saving induction cooking.