Downtown Springdale Street Dinner & Stage (Restaurant Internship) Discussion

About this episode

Chef William Mauk discusses his experience as Executive Chef at the Downtown Springdale Street Dinner and shares insights on restaurant internships.

Welcome to the June edition of the Bein the Know podcast! Bienvenue Chef/Owner William Mauk reflects on the Downtown Springdale Street Dinner where he was the Executive Chef. What’s it like planning, preparing and serving 400 of your closest friends? Chef Will discusses that with John Engleman from the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast. Also, we get into what’s ethical and what’s not with personal takes on staging (pronounced “stah-jing”). If you’re not familiar, just think of it as an unpaid internship in a kitchen. Prepare yourself for some opinions! As always, Chef Will answers your recipe questions as well. If you have recipe questions for next month, send them to chef@bienvenuerestaurant.com or FlavorsOfNWA@gmail.com.

People in this episode

Host: John Engleman

Guest: William Mauk

Topics covered

• Downtown Springdale Street Dinner
• restaurant internship
• ethical cooking
• unpaid internships
• recipe questions

Keywords

• Downtown Springdale
• Street Dinner
• Executive Chef
• restaurant internship
• ethical cooking
• recipe questions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Flavors of Northwest Arkansas, Bienvenue Restaurant

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