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Ross Warhol and Alex Gray, the Athenaeum Hotel’s executive and sous chefs, review plans during preparations for the third “Praxis” dinner.

Chef brings art to culinary arts at Athenaeum Hotel

August 25, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Though he has worked at the best restaurants in the world — from el Bulli in Spain to Alinea in Chicago — he hates eating his own food and detests cooking for himself after spending hours steeped in kitchen accoutrements. Instead, Executive Chef Ross Warhol snacks on Frank’s Red Hot with cottage cheese, gummy bears and Breyers black raspberry ice cream.

Managing the Athenaeum Hotel kitchen’s creation of three meals a day, Warhol rarely eats any full meals himself. He instead subsists on taste-testing his dishes and remains energized despite the fact that he averages only a few hours of sleep a night.

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15th Annual Jazz at Chautauqua preceded by instructional workshop

August 25, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The Athenaeum Hotel boasts Duke Ellington as one of its many famed visitors. In late September, Ellington will return to the Athenaeum in musical form.

From Sept. 20 to 23, the Athenaeum will host the 15th annual “Jazz at Chautauqua,” a party featuring world-renowned jazz musicians focusing on jazz standards from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. For the first time in its history, this jazz party will be prefaced with a traditional jazz workshop from Sept. 16–20.

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Executive Chef Ross Warhol and Dining Room Supervisor Sarah Trostle brainstorm menu items for the Athenaeum’s Praxis dinner. Photo by Adam Birkan.

‘Painted’ brings art to the dinner plate

August 16, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

To a chef, a plate is a canvas waiting to be bedecked with delicate, colorful works of food art. Athenaeum Hotel’s Executive Chef Ross Warhol takes that idea one step further with his third and final Praxis dinner, “Painted.”

“It’s going to be a dinner that is created with dishes from artists … van Gogh or Picasso or Chihuly. We’ll re-create their favorite meal or the most popular dish of their time and plate it in the same style that they painted or sculpted,” Warhol said.

“Painted” is a special five-course meal presented to a sold-out crowd of 50 people at 5:30 p.m. today at the Athenaeum Hotel.

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‘Community’ dinner gives classic potluck dishes a modern kick

August 4, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The chef has before his hands two large clear jars that hold pickles suspended in brine. One jar is the classic green hue that denotes a kosher dill pickle, but the other jar sports a red-tinged brine for one of 24-year-old Executive Chef Ross Warhol’s latest concoctions: Frank’s Red Hot Sauce pickles.

The pickles — which Warhol grew in his garden — will be served with handmade hot dogs at Saturday’s sold-out “Community” dinner in the Athenaeum Hotel, where Warhol serves as executive chef. “Community” is the second of a three-part Praxis dinner series that showcases Warhol’s gift for inventive cuisine.

“‘Community’ is an upscale potluck dinner — a potluck-cookout,” Warhol said. “It’s going to be fun, because it’s all going to be food that is recognizable to the guests — it’s simple, but yet it’s going to be the best we can make it.

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Chautauqua Women’s Club will hold the “Open Your Purse and Take Off Your Tie” fundraiser Wednesday at the Athenaeum Hotel. Photo by Michelle Kanaar.

CWC fundraiser features popular outfit accessories

July 23, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The Chautauqua Women’s Club fundraiser “Open Your Purse and Take Off Your Tie” is from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Athenaeum Hotel. It is a summertime-song-singing fun kind of fundraiser. The song “Buttons and Bows” somehow lends itself as a theme song. Just substitute “purses and ties” for “buttons and bows” and sing along.

“East is east and West is west, And the wrong one I have chose, Let’s go where I’ll keep on wearin’ those frills and flowers and purses and ties.”

The silent auction and sale of 250 donated purses and many ties features a wonderful, almost architectural Judy Lieber evening clutch covered in Swarovski crystals. Other purses by recognized designers such as Coach, Louis Vuitton, Kate Spade, Tommy Woods, Tommy Bahama and Salvatore Ferragamo are included.

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Chef Ross Warhol prepares and plates dish of steak and tomato marmalade with honey mustard pearls during the 2011 “Molecular Gastronomy” event at the Athenaeum Hotel. Warhol will use many of the same techniques in his 1884 Praxis dinner on Friday. Daily file photo.

1884 dinner showcases inventive, progressive cuisine

July 11, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

His hands move deftly as he pulls the twine in loops over the beef tenderloin.

It’s a practiced movement for Ross Warhol, the 24-year-old executive chef of the Athenaeum Hotel. He does it as he talks, as he samples the soup to check its progress, as he fields questions from the other six people who comprise his kitchen team.

Warhol, whose kitchen must feed several hundred tonight for dinner, takes a break to chat about an inventive dinner he has planned this week — the 1884 dinner. It’s the first in a series of three Praxis dinners. Warhol gives a few instructions on his way out, but when he steps out of the kitchen, he is attentive and talks about his dinners with gusto.

For the 1884 dinner, a five-course meal with seating from 5:30–8 p.m. Friday at the Athenaeum, he will serve reinvented dishes from an 1884 menu from the Chautauqua archives, Ida Edison’s family cookbook and recipes from the 1888 Bird, Tree & Garden Club.

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“You’ve just got to show up and do your best,” President Bill Clinton told members of the White House press corps during a news conference on Bestor Plaza. He had been asked about the importance of the imminent debates against Sen. Bob Dole in October 1996. Photo by William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

Heritage Lecture explores behind the scenes of Clinton’s 1996 presidential debate prep visit

July 6, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The Athenaeum Hotel with a presidential suite? The Athenaeum Hotel appointed as home to the White House communications staff? How about daily national security briefings held in the Athenaeum presidential suite and one of the hotel rooms established as the president’s office? It was October 1996, and the rigmarole on the grounds that fall regarded the debates preceding the presidential election.

To give some perspective to that rigmarole, Ed Evans, longtime Chautauquan, journalist and historian, will show a 30-minute documentary and conduct a presentation titled, “When the White House Moved to Chautauqua: President Clinton’s Stay in the Athenaeum.” Part of the Oliver Archives Heritage Lecture Series, the event will begin today at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Christ.

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Mengle Foundation co-sponsors morning Amp conversation

July 3, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The Glenn and Ruth Mengle Foundation will co-sponsor today’s morning lecture featuring retired news anchor Jim Lehrer and political strategists Whit Ayres and Donna Brazile in the Amphitheater.

D. Edward Chaplin, vice president trust officer acting for the trustee First Commonwealth Bank, said the foundation chooses to sponsor programs that are captivating and thought-provoking.

“We take a look at what seems to be timely and appropriate,” Chaplin said. “This was one we thought would be interesting and something worthwhile for the foundation to sponsor.”

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