Thursday, April 3, 2008

"Hey Mom! Look At Me!"


"As a health food store with a fairly large deli, we wanted people to be able to experience many different types of foods and still keep it healthy," Kralyevich said. "Thanks to our chef, Erik, he is the creative genius when it comes to inventing many varieties of foods. And it sure seems like the customers really enjoy it because they keep coming back, so he must be doing something right."
Erik Laracuente, the chef, also has had a hand in the health food business for many years. For seven years he was the chef at Café Metro in Denville. Prior to that he worked as a chef in two different health food places in Ridgewood and had his own business cooking health foods for families.
"All I have ever cooked is health foods since I was 18 years old," Laracuente said. "I love it here, and I have the freedom to be very creative and to create an endless variety of dishes." Click here to read the whole article.

9 comments:

Peter M said...

Erik, congrats on the article and more importantly, on those grill marks!

Chef Erik said...

Thanks Peter, I pride myself on my grill marks. I am so happy with the article, it's great exposure for me and the store.

funwithyourfood said...

WOW
it's a fantastic article. Someone sure liked you and your cooking! :)

Teddy

Ethan said...

Congratulations Chef! next stop...

"On this episode of Hell's Kitchen with Chef Laracuente"...

"You call this F*@#N hummus!!, I wouldn't serve this to my DOG!! Do you really wanna be a vegan, DO YOU!!"

Anonymous said...

hey! it was awesome seeing you yesterday, and by the way, my lunch was fabulous, as usual. I like the blog, very nice and professional, the recipes look great I'll definitely have to try making some of them. I will stop in next time I'm in town to discuss important matters like Top Chef, haha. See you soon! Keep making yummy food! : )
-Kristin

Anonymous said...

Wow you always said you were cool, but I didn't believe it until right now!!! Great article-

Love ur little sis-

giesel

Mama Mia said...

i want to taste your food!

Chef Erik said...

Thanks everyone, I'm glad you all enjoyed reading my news artice. I'll be signing autographs on Saturday, haha! Thanks so much :)

Anonymous said...

Erik:
I am so proud of you and most of all, happy that you do what you love... what a lucky guy you are!!

Love always, MOM