Western PA Personal Chef Lands on Cover of Personal Chef Magazine

Jan. 4, 2011 - PRLog -- Chef Tim Hering, CPC, chef and owner of Dinner Magician Personal Chef Service, located in Lawrence County, PA and serving residents of the region in an area from Pittsburgh to areas as far North and West as Youngstown, Ohio, is currently the featured chef in the January – March 2011 edition of the US Personal Chef Association’s Personal Chef Magazine!

The following is an excerpt from the 4 page feature article:

"From dishwasher to head chef to soap maker to personal chef, Personal Chef Tim Hering has had a varied and eclectic career path. But no matter what he was doing, the kitchen and the opportunity to provide healthy, tasty food, always called to him.

"Why Tim decided to become a Personal Chef

"Of his experience prior to becoming a personal chef, Tim says, 'I’ve almost always worked in restaurants. I started as a dishwasher when I was 13 in order to make money to go to summer camp and quickly became one of the cooks in that restaurant. I managed a variety of pizza places while in college, and while I love pizza, I’ve always loved to cook a wide variety of dishes. I attended the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute in 1999 and since then I’ve worked with various chefs in the Pittsburgh area in positions such as Roundsman, Kitchen Manager, and as Head Chef. At one point I developed a new breakfast and dinner menu for a pizza place that wanted to add a dining room and menu to their existing pizza and subs selection.'

"Regarding sales and marketing experiences, Tim said, 'I worked in telemarketing and tried my hand at working retail at Circuit City. I quickly realized that continuing to try to sell someone something after they said “no” was not something I was good at! While being a personal chef also involves sales and marketing, the difference now is that I truly believe in the value of what I do and am more willing to tell people all about it. Magazines and small electronics just didn’t do it for me.'"

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Chef Tim is the lead instructor for the Culinary Business Academy's Personal Chef Quick Start program in Pittsburgh. Tim is a Certified Personal Chef® (CPC) through the United States Personal Chef Association, is the owner of "Dinner Magician Personal Chef Service" (http://www.dinnermagician.com), the President of the Western PA Chapter of the USPCA (WestPAChefs.com) and is the Marketing Director for "Soap Alchemy, Natural, Hand Crafted Soap Co." (SoapAlchemy.com), based near Pittsburgh, PA.

He graduated from the Culinary Business Academy in 2008 and attended the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute and has worked in food service for the better part of 27 years, both as a chef and a general manager. He also teaches the Little Chef’s Family Cooking Class at his local YMCA as well as being involved with teaching children in association with the Summer Reading Program at area libraries, teaches summer cooking camps and instructing after school cooking classes to the children in the after school program of the Bairel YMCA.

For more information about Chef Tim, please visit his website at dinnermagician.com or call 724-498-04334.

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Personal Chef providing In Home Cooking Services to Western PA and Eastern Ohio residents in Lawrence and Beaver Counties, parts of Mercer, Butler and Allegheny Counties in PA and portions of Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana Counties in Ohio.