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It would be horrible to eat only
one thing the rest of your life.
MEET CHEF
Indian Wells lets me have a lot of
flexibility over what I want on
the menus and gives me the
ability to showcase the talent I
have developed over the years.
CALE FALK
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Resort's Executive Chef
has a passion for cooking
hef Cale Falk has seen it
all in the restaurant biz.
Starting out as a dishwasher, he's worked his way up
to Executive Chef at Indian
Wells Golf Resort where he puts
his passion into creating and
preparing fantastic food. We recently took him off the line for
few minutes and got him to talk
about his cooking career, guilty
pleasures, and the one food he
would eat for the rest of his life.
I was a very picky eater as a kid. I
didn't figure out I wanted to be
a chef until I was 19 or 20 when
I moved to Eureka, California.
Attention to detail is my greatest
culinary strength.
Executive Chef Cale Falk
I started working in a seafood
restaurant as a dishwasher and
moved to prep cook then to line
cook. Once I started expanding
my food palate I realized that all
this food I never tried was really
good! It was then I really started
to enjoy cooking and decided I
wanted to go to culinary school.
I probably say "No! No! No! No!
Start over!" way too much.
My favorite spice right
now is Togarashi. It's a
Japanese spice containing
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I love working with
chile flakes, orange rind,
seafood both raw and
sesame seeds all ground up.
cooked. Our Spanish Octopus
My guilty pleasure is anything
with white beans and citrus
sweet and full of sugar. We
salad is a great example. It's
know most sweets aren't the
simple but powerful in flavor.
healthiest, so I'm just glad I'm
not a pastry chef. Then there
If I could only eat one food the
rest of my life, I would eat tuna. might be problems.
EXTRA!
Spanish Octopus
and White Bean
Salad Recipe
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