Seven distinguished Mentor graduates form the 16th Alumni Hall of Fame class
Rocco Whalen -- Mentor High graduate, owner and chef of the acclaimed Fahrenheit restaurant in Tremont, and one of the newest inductees into his alma mater's alumni hall of fame -- chatted with senior Jacob Simko as they walked the hallways of Mentor High Thursday morning. "Do you cook?" Whalen asked. Simko humbly replied that he could make some things -- mostly breakfast dishes like French toast and from-scratch hash browns. "That's good," Whalen said without condescension. "What's important is you get the philosophy of cooking." That was just one of the tidbits of wisdom offered by the 2012 Mentor High Alumni Hall of Fame class as they visited their former stomping grounds Thursday. The 16th class of HOF inductees include Whalen, Thomas …
Cleveland Fitness Revolution co-owner reflects on training area chefs during filming of recent Food Network show
The lack of realism in reality TV still weighs on Nate Miracle’s mind about six months after he received his first glimpse of spotlight. That glimpse was significantly smaller than the co-owner of Cleveland Fitness Revolution first anticipated, and that’s part of the problem. Chefs Kimberly McCune Gibson and Mentor native Rocco Whalen trained at Revolution’s Beachwood and Westlake locations, respectively, but you might not have known that even if you tuned into the Food Network’s recent “Fat Chef” series. Miracle and his partner, Dan Bednar, led the culinary artists through an aggressive, 16-week training regimen in order to shed some pounds. They met with Miracle and Bednar four to five times per week, but were shown sparingly when the …
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