Culinary Guest Schedule
Holland America Line has long been known for some of the finest dining at sea. And now, in addition to enjoying exquisite dishes, you can learn from and mingle with top chefs, experts in wine, chocolate and cheese, and leading cookbook authors--introducing an onboard enrichment program that gives you a firsthand glance at chefs in action through demonstrations, tasting events, and intimate hands-on cooking classes. It´s one more reason Holland America Line is the leader in premium cruising. Please check the schedule below for the best cruise for you. The chefs schedule is subject to change.
| |
| |
 | Kent Rathbun
Executive Chef, Abacus and Jaspar Restaurants, Dallas, TX Kent's restaurant, Abacus, has been a hit from its inception in 1999. Abacus currently holds the Mobil Four Star and AAA Four Diamond awards and a Five Star rating from the Dallas Morning News. Food & Wine Magazine honored Abacus for offering "one of the 10 most original, food-friendly, value-conscious new wine lists in America." Kent was nominated as the James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Southwest in 2000 and 2002. He appears regularly on the Food Network's "Chef du Jour", "Cooking Live with Sara Moulton", and "Ready Set Cook". Kent has been featured in Bon Appetit, Southern Living Magazine, Nation's Restaurant News, USA Today, Elle, Veranda Magazine. He was one of the featured chefs for the George W. Bush 2001 Inaugural Ball | ms Volendam
10-day Southern Caribbean & Panama Canal Sunfarer
Nov. 3 2007 |
 | Paulette Mitchell
Culinary Instructor and Author of 11 Cookbooks Paulette is known internationally for her quick-to-prepare healthful recipes with a gourmet flair. She most recently published A Beautiful Bowl of Soup and The Spirited Vegetarian, which was awarded "Best Book in the World on Cooking with Wine" at the 2005 Gourmand World Media Awards. Paulette's 15-Minute Gourmet cookbook series was honored as "Best Cookbook Series" at the 2000 World Cookbook Fair in Perigueux, France in November, 2000. She also contributes to numerous culinary publications, including Cooking Light Magazine and Cooking Pleasures Magazine. Her daily column of cooking tips and recipes appears on over 100 television station web sites coast-to-coast. | ms Prinssendam
21-day European Farewell
Nov. 3 2007 |
 | Michael Bloise
Executive Chef - WISH, Miami At the helm of Wish in Miami, Florida is executive chef Michael Bloise, a chef with an eclectic cooking style that is artful yet unpretentious. Half-Italian and half-Vietnamese, his cuisine embraces the robust flavors of American cooking and the subtle nuances of haute Asian cuisine. Selected as one of the country's "Rising Star" chefs by Restaurant Hospitality, Bloise has been drawing critical and popular acclaim since he was appointed in December 2003. Prior to Wish, the Johnson & Wales graduate worked under chef Frank Randazzo as executive sous chef at The Gaucho Room, the restaurant formerly located in Miami Beach's Loews Hotel.
| ms Statendam
14-day Australia and New Zealand
Nov. 4 2007 |
 | Seis Kamimura
Chef, BOKA - Seattle, WA Seis Kamimura spent five years as a sous-chef at Spago in Los Angeles before making a mark in Seattle at Bada Lounge. He then established Les Cadeaux Gourmets, a gourmet shop in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood with his wife Pia. Les Cadeaux closed its storefront and became Internet-only so that Kamimura could return to the kitchen. At BOKA, in the Hotel 1000 in downtown Seattle, Kamimura reinvents urban American cuisine by marrying the eclectic, global influences of his adopted home, Seattle, with creative interpretations of classic American favorites. | ms Zuiderdam
7-day Eastern Caribbean
Nov. 17 2007 |
