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Pop Magnet Entertainment is excited to announce we are currently casting for experienced Executive/Sous Chefs for an amazing opportunity to take over a position at a prestigious restaurant across the country for a show on a major cable network.

Also, we are casting for prestigious restaurants across the country that are currently looking to fill their executive chef position and want to be a part of this process.

Chefs to submit for this casting please include the following:

NAME:
Age:
CURRENT TITLE (i.e. Executive Chef, Sous Chef, Line Cook etc)
Location:
CONTACT INFO (phone number/e-mail/websites):
2 CURRENT PHOTOS, RESUME AND BIO (if you have) OF YOURSELF:
PARAGRAPH ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHY YOU WANT TO BE ON THIS SHOW (please include your current employment status i.e employed or unemployed. note this will not affect your chances of making it on the show)

Restaurants to submit for this casting please include the following:

NAME of Restaurant:
Address:
Region:
Owner or Manager name:
Time Frame your are willing to hire:
CONTACT INFO (phone/e-mail/websites):
2 CURRENT PHOTOS OF YOURSELF:
PARAGRAPH ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHY YOU WANT TO BE ON THIS SHOW (please include your current employment status i.e employed or unemployed. note this will not affect your chances of making it on the show)

For your chance for a great opportunity submit the above info to: chefshowcasting2@gmail.com

Santa Barbara Marshalls offers an investor the opportunity to acquire a rarely traded commercial property centrally located on the vibrant retail corridor of State Street in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, CA. The single-tenant NNN-leased property offers a stable cash flow, ease of management and pride of ownership at a price that is substantially below replacement cost. The lushly landscaped property consists of 38,015 SF of building GLA on 0.50 acres at the signalized intersection of State Street and W. Canon Perdido Street. The property provides over 80 feet of frontage on State Street, a very popular pedestrian shopping destination across from Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center, anchored by Nordstrom and Macy' s. Retailers such as Apple, Forever 21, H&M and Anthropologie are located nearby on State Street. - LoopNet

Maple syrup, maple syrup, maple syrup, a photo by akassabov on Flickr.

In order for their sap to run, maple trees need temperatures to fluctuate between warm days and freezing nights. This year, Minnesota barely saw any runs like that. And then, a couple weeks ago, buds appeared on the trees. 

"Once that starts happening, the sap production's over," Edelen explained. "It was a rough season. It just got so warm so fast, and stayed warm ,that you got what you could get." - MN Public Radio

February and March are typically peak months for tapping trees and collecting sap to be boiled down to make maple syrup. But the ideal season usually has cool days and nights below freezing — the kind of weather that’s been hard to come by lately. - Wicked Local

While we were all frolicking, naked, in our kiddie pools during last week's crazy heat wave, the nation's maple farmers were shedding tears of sweet sadness: This year's tropical temperatures are devastating maple production. For the love of all things breakfast: start stockpiling maple syrup. - Gawker

If you take Charlie Ayers’ view, things in Silicon Valley aren’t going that well–at least judging by pizza boxes and soda cans discarded next to software developers’ desks. 

Your business is only as good as the food you feed your employees, said Ayers, former executive chef at Google, as a crowd of a couple hundred executives and other business-folk munched on his delicious vegetarian dinner under open skies, at the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., last week.

Ayers used to feed thousands of employees of Google at its famed Silicon Valley cafeteria, but now owns a restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif., called Calafia, and also organizes cafeterias for start-ups.

He runs such cafes for five start-ups now, Ayers said on the sidelines of the ECO:nomics conference. - WSJ

The Lompoc Ghetto, known by wine aficionados as a hot spot for good wine, soon will house a business of a different flavor — a commercial bakery founded by the owners of a Ghetto winery.

New Vineland Bread is a new project from the team behind New Vineland/Piedrasassi Wines: couples Peter and Amy Pastan, from Washington, D.C., and Melissa Sorongon and Sashi Moorman, both residents of Lompoc.

Under his company, September Consulting, managed by Sorongon, Moorman consults for other wineries, including Evening Land Vineyards, Sandhi Wines and Stolpman Vineyards.

Peter Pastan is chef and owner of Two Amys Pizzeria and Obelisk, the latter a small but elite eatery near Dupont Circle with “a serious bread program,” he said.

Pastan, New Vineland’s baker, Goleta resident Kate Heller, and Sorongon have in recent weeks put the custom made, wood-fired oven through its paces, utilizing two hot-burning woods — walnut and trunks from old grape vines — in an effort to “stabilize” it, Pastan said. - Santa Maria Times

A Girl Scout near Boston found out the soullessness of some cookie consumers the hard way, when she took the haul her troop made off the treats to her local bank. Once there, she was informed that someone had passed her $80 in counterfeit $20 bills, says WBZ News.

"This is a very unfortunate situation that someone would do this at all, especially for the Girl Scouts," said Allison Rubin, the media and public relations manager for the Girls Scouts of Eastern Mass. "We really want to appreciate and say thank you to everyone. We are not soliciting outside funding, but we really appreciate their support."

The troop was trying to fund a hiking trip in May as well as a gathering on Cape Cod, and are now $80 farther from their goal. - The Consumerist

Women's Economic Ventures

Daily, weekly or monthly commercial kitchen space available for rent in Buellton -- offered by Dawn Peters of Decadence Fine Cakes & Confections. If your business isn't quite to that place where you can afford the rent of a commercial kitchen on your own, this might be perfect for you! Contact Dawn for more details at (805) 686-2860.

and looks to build big things back up in the Bay Area.

It's been eight long years since Bradley Ogden called the Bay Area his home. But the celebrated chef and co-founder of the Lark Creek Restaurant Group, who espoused farm-to-table cooking decades before it became entrenched in the culinary lexicon, has returned - with a revved-up spirit and a bold game plan.

Ogden has a new 3,700-square-foot house in the Evergreen district of southeast San Jose, a new fiancee, a new multimedia company, and a new business partner in Chris Kelly, Facebook's first general counsel, who ran unsuccessfully for state attorney general two years ago.

Their as-yet-unnamed multimedia company is already at work on a pilot for a new cooking show, "Real Food With Chef Bradley Ogden." The show, which will be shopped around to TV networks, will follow Ogden as he visits farmers and artisan purveyors, and cooks at home with friends and family, including his son, Bryan, 34, also a gifted chef. - SFGate