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Diana DeLucia created her “Golf Kitchen” brand years ago, to put the focus on the culinary artists inside the worlds’ fabulous private country clubs. That expanded to include some of the worlds’ top resort golf destinations. She didn’t stop there. Her semi-annual magazine, and her coffee table books, bring the top golf kitchens into your home, with fabulous recipes including magnificent desserts for you to make at home. Today she is expanding the reach with the 4th Annual Culinary Excellence Awards at GlenArbor Golf Club. All of the chefs cooking this year are under 40! This industry is wide open for the young. 

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Golf Kitchen President and Editor Diana DeLucia joins me in the clubhouse to talk about her forays into the private golf club kitchen's of Round Hill Club, Baltrusrol and Reynolds Lake Oconee to talk about their courses, clubs and the chefs responsible for creating the fine dining experiences for their club members. The "Golf Kitchen Culinary Excellence Awards" will include a wine division. DeLucia continues the pursuit of recognizing excellence with "​The Golf Kitchen Certification of Culinary Excellence", the only internationally recognized certification program for private golf and country club food and beverage teams. The certification is determined by the club's ability to meet and exceed its member's expectations 

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During this time, it is hard to be a farmer. Golf Kitchen's Diana DeLucia has created "Swings into Action" to begin a campaign to help one very influencial farmer, Farmer Lee Jones keep one of America's most important farms, The Chef's Garden. For the next many weeks, the top Private Country Club Chef's will create a recipe inspired by the produce in The Chefs Garden, and you can order the box to be sent directly to your home with all of the hand picked produce and items you need to make the one-of-a-kind receipe. And it will come with plating instructions, so you can place the food on your dinner plates the way the chefs would be inspired to. That's plating. Decorating your plate with the food you've prepared. The first Chef to present his creation will be Chef Shaun C. Lewis, Executive Chef and Assistant General Manager at Liberty National Golf Club. The how-to and where to order instructions will be out soon.

Listen here to how incredibly back to the past, to bring farming into the future, "The Chef's Garden" co owner Farmer Lee Jones goes to make the best, most nutritious produce,and edible flowers, possible. And he is sharing his knowledge inside an institute, Culinary Vegetable Institute at The Chef's Garden on his property. Check out the audio. Farmer Lee Jones called in to my golf show from the farm, while he was checking on his crops.

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Diana DeLucia's Golf Kitchen​ franchise continues to grow since her first book, "Golf Kitchen", came out. Featuring the chefs in the magnificent country clubs in the U.S. and around the world, and their recipes! Soon after her magazine was introduced. With gloss covered cover stock featuring top chefs and movers, like Gary Player, on the cover, with insightful interviews with the men and women on the inside, it's a work of art. The photography beautiful. Recipes captivating. Behind the scenes in the kitchens and the gardens of the country clubs many of us only hear about. And then she began her world wide food "festivals" with the top chefs flying to great designations to share their recipes with members and guests, and play some golf! Diana. I wish you all the success, expansion and recognition you deserve in the 2020's.

Our conversation from the show on SoundCloud​. Click on photo to get the audio.

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Talking Golf Kitchen's Culinary Excellence Awards, her coffee table books, her magazine, the Presidents Cup, Sebonack Golf Club, GlenArbor GC, all featured in her semi-annual magazine, and new projects, with Golf Kitchen Founder Diana DeLucia.

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Michael Ruggiero is the Executive Chef at GlenArbor Golf Club, the host of the Golf Kitchen Culinary Excellence Awards and Celebration dinner. He took time out of his busy prep schedule to talk with me on his show about his path to make his dream come true in culinary arts. Ruggiero has had a lifelong passion in Culinary Arts that has spanned over two decades of accomplishments beginning with a degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, then working with a Master Chef, earning a Certified Executive Chef designation from the American Culinary Federation, 2 gold medals in hot food competition and working as an Executive Chef in multiple Private Country Clubs.

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Diana DeLucia, in a matter of a few years, has galvanized the private country club culinary community, creating a Golf Kitchen coffee table book series with in-depth interviews and exquisite food photography while featuring the country club scenes, a collector's item Golf Kitchen Magazine, annual Culinary Excellence awards for the top in the industry for private and resort chefs, and others, plus a Golf Kitchen scholarship award that includes the Professional Culinary Arts diploma program at the International Culinary Center in New York and an externship at a private golf or country club in in 2020. This month, her second annual Golf Kitchen Culinary Excellence awards will be presented to the winners at Glenarbor Golf Clubin Bedford Hills, New York. Thrilling to be there by invitation only.

[radiogolfclub]

Diana DeLucia, in a matter of a few years, has galvanized the private country club culinary community, creating a Golf Kitchen coffee table book series with in-depth interviews and exquisite food photography while featuring the country club scenes, a collector's item Golf Kitchen Magazine, annual Culinary Excellence awards for the top in the industry for private and resort chefs, and others, plus a Golf Kitchen scholarship award that includes the Professional Culinary Arts diploma program at the International Culinary Center in New York and an externship at a private golf or country club in in 2020. This month, her second annual Golf Kitchen Culinary Excellence awards will be presented to the winners at Glenarbor Golf Clubin Bedford Hills, New York. Thrilling to be there by invitation only.