- Hardcover
- Publisher: CBI Publishing; 2nd Print edition (1971)
- ASIN: B000KA2SLO
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,381,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Born in Austria, the author, Klaus Mitterhauser (aka Professor Culinarius), began his culinary odyssey in Vienna at age sixteen. From there he lived and worked in Switzerland, France, Sweden, Brazil, on ocean liners and finally in the U.S., where he found his permanent home. His publication of Brazilian short stories appeared in Austrian and German newspapers and magazines over a period of six years while he was working in Rio de Janeiero.
Over several decades he held positions as Executive Chef, culinary lecturer, professor, industrial research chef, club manager, educational administrator, and restaurant owner. All the positions shared a common basis: culinary artistry. His "Book of Buffets", which features artistic food creations, was co-authored with the late George Waldner. Its publication in 1968 was followed by a Japanese version.
He won gold medals in the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany. Additionally, he created a method of detailed sculpturing of tallow (edible) for use on buffet tables, winning a host of competitions in various locations around the globe.
He speaks a number of languages, including German, Swedish, Portuguese, French and English. He has two daughters and one son.
After 20 years of pioneering his own restaurant concepts in Minnesota (four separate theme establishments), he sold his business and "retired" to write his memoirs and tend his organic garden. Instead, he became a crusader for whole foods, organic nutrition, and the green lifestyle. He is currently a writer, DVD producer, and lecturer, as well as a weekly radio personality, and has a local chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation. The organization endorses a healthy lifestyle through optimum characteristics of human diets. Mitterhauser promotes adding specific gourmet twists to the requisite "optimum diet" assorted foods.
