New Pantry Chef at Chez Keilholtz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Oakland, California - Executive Chef Erik Keilholtz is proud to announce the addition to the Chez Keilholtz kitchen staff of pantry chef Amalia Keilholtz. Miss Keilholtz, who began her apprenticeship at the age of about 17 months, and today passed her exams, by helping Chef Keilholtz in a way that actually brought forward progress to the meal, without the need for constant intercession and correction. While she has not yet moved from dull plastic knife to sharp knife, she is making tremendous progress, ably demonstrating her ability to hold it correctly and to properly dismember her plastic vegetables.

The feat that convinced Chef Keilholtz that Miss Amalia was ready to wear a Keilholtz apron was her successful taking apart and sorting (very proud Babbo!) of a large cardoni into sections for various prep treatments.

To help Miss Amalia celebrate her promotion, Chef Keilholtz gave her a tall glass of juice and endured the "Elmo Song" CD for one go around. He drew the line at watching a movie, saying, "Amalia, I am very proud of you, but after all this fun in the kitchen, why would you want to watch the Fishies?"

Miss Amalia, through her PR firm, expressed amazement that Babbo is so excited about her progress in the kitchen, but, hey, he's kind of crazy, and I like all the attention.

Anyway, 26 months and she helped for real in the kitchen, with a tricky vegetable. Babbo is very proud of his little chef!