Steve Weiss's Page

Relationship Status:

Married

About Me:

Chef Steve Weiss was born in Newburgh, New York located in the Hudson River Valley, living in a predominately Italian household Chef Steve was introduced to many wonderful ingredients and foods. Becoming a Chef was not on the radar at this time, the culinary bug didn’t catch hold right away. Chef Steve went to Duchess Community College where he minored in Electromechanical Technologies finally receiving a degree in the Graphic Arts. From there he moved to Carlisle PA. where his parents had just opened a small Italian restaurant. While working there for a year he decided that culinary school was the next step. Chef Steve then enrolled and graduated with honors from Baltimore’s Culinary College with a degree in the Baking and Pastry Arts. Soon after graduating he secured a position with Marriott Hotels and met a Pastry Chef by the name of Jean Marcel Toscano a Master French Pastry Chef who was an instructor at Lenotre’ outside of Paris. France Jean Marcel secured a position in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Steve was asked to follow. This started a 14-year run In America’s Playground, While working in various Casino’s such as Caesar’s, Trump’s Taj Mahal, Merv Griffin’s Resorts, Showboat , Harrah’s and Tropicana he honed his creative abilities and started to enter competitions such as The New York Culinary Salon and Restaurant Show, Patisfrance Pastry Championships, Master’s of Chocolate Competition in Philadelphia, Pa, Gold Medal at Hershey Chocolate Competition, 2000 National Pastry Team Championships in Colorado, 2003 National Pastry Championships in Las Vegas, NV. 2005 Best In Show and Best Dessert in Shreveport, Louisiana, along with various American Culinary Federation Competitions around the country. A highlight was winning gold at the 2000 Culinary Olympic Tryouts in New York for Pastry where Chef Steve was asked to become a member of the 2000 Eastern Regional Culinary Olympic Team that competes worldwide. In between all this Chef Steve found the time to get married to a fellow Pastry Chef and has two children Charles and Emilia. From Atlantic City they moved to Shreveport, Louisiana where he worked for Boyd Gaming for 2 years. Chef Steve eventually moved to Charlestown, West Virginia where he was hired to coordinate the first Penn Gaming funded Pastry Shop at Charlestown Races and Slots. Chef Steve and his edible centerpieces have been featured in National and International magazines such as (Pastry Art and Design, Le Journal du Patisserie (France), Sweet Art (Germany), Pasticceria Internazionale (Italy) and various newspapers as well as Television and NPR’s highly rated Day to Day radio news program where he was featured while competing as the Captain for Team Weiss in the Las Vegas 2003 National Pastry Championships. Chef Steve has also been featured on the Food Network Challenge Season’s 1 & 2 multiple times, with a recently aired program called Food Network’s Pastry Daredevils which airs periodically. Chef Steve has embarked on his next his next chapter, in giving back to the community as he has taken on the challenge of creating a culinary program in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia through Blue Ridge Community and Technical College where he is the Director and Coordinator of the Hospitality and Culinary programs there. Thank you for your interest,
Sincerely, Steve Weiss

Website:

http://www.blueridgectc.edu/about.htm

What is your favorite recipe creation?

chocolate truffle cake

When did you enter the Culinary Profession?

1986

Who is your favorite Musical Artist?

little of everythingl

What is your favorite TV show?

American Idol

Last Book Read:

Exploring the science of flavor

If you could have dinner with any three people who would it be and why?

Julia Child
Herve This
Lidia Bastianich

What is your favorite Culinary Web site?

http://foodtv