{"id":12021,"date":"2011-09-15T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:19","slug":"chef-returns-to-alma-mater-for-fine-food-fine-wine-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/chef-returns-to-alma-mater-for-fine-food-fine-wine-fine-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef returns to alma mater for Fine Food, Fine Wine, Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12019\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12019\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019\" title=\"Patrick Engel\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/patrickengel.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Engel\" width=\"145\" height=\"217\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Engel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you need proof or Patrick Engel\u2019s loyalty to Brock, you need to look no further than his leg.<\/p>\n<p>The local chef at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodearthfoodandwine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good Earth Food and Wine Co.<\/a> has a badger paw tattoo there accompanied by the letters <em>B.U<\/em>.  For Engel, who graduated with a degree in Psychology in 1997, it felt like a natural tribute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed my experience at Brock, and that\u2019s something that will never go away,\u201d he said. \u201cAs opposed to the name of a girlfriend, which could be fleeting, I\u2019ll always be proud of the four years I spent at Brock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Engel will bring some of that Badger pride to this weekend\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/alumni-weekend-events\/fine-food\" target=\"_blank\">Fine Food, Fine Wine, Fine Art<\/a>. As a chef at the event, he will serve up a meal of braised pork belly on a butter bean salad, a dish he likes to call \u201cpork and beans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fitting homecoming for the chef, who discovered his love of cooking while he was a student at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI began my first year as a Kraft Dinner student, and by the fourth year, I was into all kinds of stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was living off campus in his third year with four fellow students when they came across a cooking show on TV. They wrote down the instructions to make the dish \u2013 shrimp and scallops in a saffron cream \u2013 and headed to the grocery store for the ingredients. The process of gathering ingredients to make a quality meal from scratch fascinated Engel.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/undergraduate-programs\/psychology\" target=\"_blank\">Psychology<\/a> education has come in handy as a chef. In addition to those four years making him a more well-rounded person, \u201cany time you\u2019re in a food service environment, there\u2019s psychology involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestaurants can be very intense and emotional environments,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re hot. They\u2019re tiring. It can lead to stress and a very volatile atmosphere. That\u2019s where psychology comes in handy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tenth annual Fine Food, Fine Wine, Fine Art will feature Niagara\u2019s finest chefs and award-winning wineries. Tickets are $75. The event will be Saturday, Sept. 17 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Lowenberger Dining Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need proof or Patrick Engel\u2019s loyalty to Brock, you need to look no further than his leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,1],"tags":[283,176,29,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12023,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions\/12023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}