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Jim Davis

Chef Instructor, Bryan's Kitchen

http://www.bryanskitchen.com

Jim Davis, a native of West Virginia, has had two successful professional careers, one traveling the world building hospitals in seven countries and another as a Mortgage Broker in the Gaithersburg Area.

Jim is a graduate of the part-time Professional Program of L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg and has been a teaching assistant at the Bethesda location of L’Academie for more than 8 years and has assisted both local and world-renowned chefs in more than 500 classes. He has been teaching more than forty cooking classes in all disciplines each year for the last 8 years for the Montgomery County Recreation Department and also is an instructor at Bryan’s Kitchen, a Cooking Studio in the Kentlands section of Gaithersburg, MD, owned by his son, Bryan Davis.

Jim also has a strong interest in wine and has studied wines with leading wine educators. He teaches a monthly wine and food pairing class for the Montgomery County Recreation Department and teaches private wine and food pairing parties and classes in the clients home or at Bryan’s Kitchen. Jim is a member of the Society of Wine Educators.

Jim was named “Chef of the Year,” 2005-2006, in July 2005 at the Annual Summit of the American Personal Chef Association in New Orleans, LA. Jim is also the Eastern Regional Director of the APCA.

Jim and Sandra have been married for 48 years, have four married children and six grandchildren.

Prepare Pineapple Like A Pro

Chef Jim Davis shares his simple tips for cutting a perfect pineapple every time.

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Chef Jim Davis: I'm going to show you now how to peel one core of pineapple. Lot of people don't buy fresh pineapple because it looks like an imposing task. Sharp knife, cut off the top. If you want you can even save that for garnish later. Now we've got a beautiful pineapple the center hardcore. We'll remove a slice from the bottom, just like that. We will stand our pineapple up flat.

We start cutting off down along this side. We have to cut deep enough to cut out all the little eyes in there. We will cut off most of those eyes, those are not bitter, but the are very sharp. You can actually cut yourself one, if you're not careful. Now the core, we are going to go right down the center of it, you see this hard yellow part right directly in the center of pineapple. That's the core.

What we are going to do, we are going to cut right down through the middle of the pineapple just like that. Now we can see that long core that run right up through the middle. Now we're going to take that core, we're going to cut right down through it again in quarters, just like that. Okay, now we're going to stand it up and I'm going to cut that core up just like that. Okay, we cut the core out.

That's how you peel and core a pineapple.

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