Northern New England Home and Garden Show

Next weekend, May 17 and 18, I will be a featured 'chef' at the Northern New England Home and Garden Show .
http://www.homegardenflowershow.com/meet-the-chefs/
On Friday, I will demonstrate the use of my portable brick oven for roasting vegetables.

There will be ongoing demonstrations using my brick oven all weekend but the highlight will be on Saturday when Michael Jubinsky of Stone Turtle Baking School brings his baking expertise to the event.

1:30 – 2:15 Stone Turtle Baking & True Brick Ovens

207-324-7558
207-459-2567 (cell)
www.stoneturtlebaking.com
Dish: Classic French Bread prepared in an outdoor brick oven
For somewhere pretty close to 45 years, Michael Jubinsky has taught various aspects of baking, specializing in yeast breads. He was Senior Spokesman for the King Arthur Flour Company based in Norwich, Vermont for over 25 years, and filmed two bread baking videos for King Arthur Flour, on Sweet Holiday Bread and Artisan Bread. While working for King Arthur Flour he also made numerous radio and television appearances and was featured in articles in Modern Maturity Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and USA Today. Phew!
In October 2011 Dessert Professional magazine selected Michael as one of the Top Ten Bread Bakers in America!
Michael has been a Culinary Arts instructor in the Connecticut vocational school system, was a licensed retail baker and a staff instructor for the Connecticut Culinary Institute. He has been a guest instructor at the Silo, in New Milford, Connecticut and at Sur La Table in Virginia. Michael and Sandy and Annice Estes founded of Mystic Cooking School in Mystic, CT. Michael was also an instructor for the National Restaurant Association and taught Food Safety (ServSafe) in Maine and Connecticut.
In 1993, Michael’s wife, Sandy Jubinsky, the distaff part of this powerhouse cooking team, graduated from the post-graduate Culinary Arts program at Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Regional Vocational-Technical School, where she attended classes with the general high school population. She received the “Chef’s Award” for guts, stamina and a wicked good sense of humor. Sandy was the manager of the bakeshop at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut and also worked as a Pastry Chef at Lulu’s Steakhouse in Niantic, Connecticut. Sandy was also certified as a professional “Food Taster” – for both Pfizer and Cultor Industries in their respective food technology programs.
Michael and Sandy wrote features and a monthly food column for “The Day” newspaper in New London, CT for over 20 years and also did restaurant reviews for 5 years.
In 2000, after retirement as Director of Submarine Safety for the US Navy at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, CT, Michael and Sandy, and their bulldog, Emily, moved to Lyman, Maine. Michael continued his engineering career for a number of years as a consultant with both the Navy and NASA, but his real love remained baking. In thinking that “Do what you love and love what you do” was a perfect way to look at life, Michael finally retired again and, with Sandy, started on a new path.
Since moving to Maine, Michael has worked with the baking team at Borealis Breads in Wells, Maine, has been a guest instructor with York County Community College and has offered baking classes in his home. In 2006 the doors of the Stone Turtle Baking and Cooking School opened. Michael and Sandy have had the good fortune to teach hands-on baking in a beautiful and welcoming facility set in what they think of as a piece of paradise – Maine. This state-of-the-art facility, located on 20 acres of paradise in southwest Maine, offers a broad range of hands-on cooking and baking classes.