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Aug 28, 2007

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• Ambassador of Plantain
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About ChefDonClark:

For most of my life, I have been in the public eye. First, as an anchor/reporter in college. Then came Baltimore and finally New York . . . the TV market every kid with an eye towards the business wishes to report from. I witnessed history: South Africa voting. I had fun: Fashion Week. I did stories on society's afterthoughts. I thought I was making a difference, but I wasn't happy. So one day, I left 30 Rock, NBC's world headquarters, and I never looked back.

I embarked on an acting career. I started a television production company. And by everyday standards I did okay. Still, none of the things I tried reached deep enough into my soul space to soothe me. Then one day I made some biscuits the way my grandmother had taught me more than 30 years ago. I was making them for the pictures I was going to put on a website my partner and I were building. Over a lifetime I've probably made those same biscuits hundreds of times and never really saw the process the way I saw it in that movie. And I never really saw how cooking had been the one thing in my life that took me to a nether place. In the cocoon of smells, textures, the heat and the cold I would always get lost.

It had taken countless jobs and pursuits over my life to bring me to the one place that was just down the hall to the right. I'd had the same room everywhere I'd lived. Now as a middle aged man, my life finally had meaning. I had literally found the place where all
the pieces fit. I had Found My Kitchen

Besides my life-long love affair with food, for the last five years I have been concentrating on the plantain, and the Tostobueno, the Ultimate Tostonera, a plantain molder I designed and was issued a design patent for June of 2006. I am working on a book The Taco Bell Syndrome: America, Stop and Smell and the Plantains and Sweet Alex a line of tropical jams, jellies and muffins named after my two-year-old daughter come this October.

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