Ben Bostdorf

• Implemented stories and anecdotes into speeches to make information more entertaining.
• Researched material extensively before writing informative speeches.
• Presented information regarding quality of care issues, family dynamics, and early break psychosis among young men.
• Key note speaker

• Collaborated with students to complete homework assignments, identify lagging skills and correct weaknesses.
• Planned lessons for allotted time to strengthen weak subjects and build skills.

* Organized dozens of lessons in various world time zones throughout the day.

My father was a chef and at one point owned a little italian cafe in Newburyport Massachusetts. He later worked for a hotel in Portland Maine as an executive chef. My mother was a restaurant critic for the leading paper in Maine.

I grew up around food and tastes of it that many have not had. One day I had the best gazpacho at a restaurant in Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts. I was thinking about the gazpacho and called my mother to tell her about it. As I walked I passed a homeless person with a sign reading can you spare money for food.

I left and later developed The Chef's Table from an idea my parents had in the 1980

's to bring restuarnt waste the four star m,eals my father prepsred and threw away to those who barely afford to eat. Homeless congregated in the alley behind the sonesta and he would do this himself. Both my mother and father tried to convince other resrtuants to do the same yet insurance regulations at the time for food poisoning prevented the idea from being implemented.

The idea occured to me in a powerless momnent thinking about politics and my powerless in any way I could care about helping even when caring during those monets realizing Harvard square.

I started The Chef's Table and eventually it became a project which included the highest echelon of restaurantsmichelin cuisine from eateries in Boston, New York, and Maine.

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