Roland G. Henin is an American chef, and the corporate chef and chief culinary ambassador for Delaware North Companies. He is one of approximately 60 certified master chefs in the U.S. and has been recognized as an accomplished chef, culinary teacher and cookbook contributor throughout his career. [1] He coached Timothy Hollingsworth for the 2009 Bocuse d'Or in Lyon, France. [2]
Henin mentored Thomas Keller. [3] Keller helped select Henin to coach for the Bocuse d'Or.
Earlier in his career, Henin coached the 1992 gold medal U.S. Culinary Olympic Team. He also received the first-ever National Chef Professionalism Award ever granted by the American Culinary Federation. This success helped him to become the director of the Culinary Arts Department at the Art Institute of Seattle. He has also taught at the Culinary Institute of America and Johnson & Wales College of Culinary Arts.
At Delaware North, Henin oversees the company's culinary operations at national parks, sports stadiums and entertainment venues around the world. He helped the company develop its first-ever cookbook Pathways to Plate and its follow-up, Home Plate. [4] In early 2008, the Jacobs family established a scholarship at the Culinary Institute of America in Henin's name that provides funding for future students who attend the school. [5]
Henin coached five Delaware North chefs in the 2008 Culinary Olympics in Erfurt, Germany. All five chefs received distinction, with Ambarish Lulay and Scott Green earning silver medals and Kevin Doherty earning a bronze medal. [6]
Before his tenure at Delaware North, Henin served as the executive chef at OSF International and Truitt Bros. in Oregon, as well as chef de cuisine at the five-star Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. [7]
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is a private culinary school with its main campus in Hyde Park, New York, and branch campuses in St. Helena and Napa, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Singapore. The college, which was the first to teach culinary arts in the United States, offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees, and has the largest staff of American Culinary Federation Certified Master Chefs. The CIA also offers continuing education for professionals in the hospitality industry as well as conferences and consulting services. The college additionally offers recreational classes for non-professionals. The college operates student-run restaurants on its four U.S. campuses.
Paul François Pierre Bocuse was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul. The Bocuse d'Or, a biennial world chef championship, bears his name.
Thomas Aloysius Keller is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, the French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, including Best California Chef in 1996 and Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant was a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World; the voting process has since been changed to disallow previous winners from being considered.
Delaware North is an American multinational food service and hospitality company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. The company also operates in the lodging, sporting, airport, gambling, and entertainment industries. The company employs over 55,000 people worldwide and has over $3.2 billion in annual revenues.
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