David Waltuck, the prominent Brand-new York City chef who ran Chanterelle — a revered temple of French gastronomy — for three decades before it closed in 2009, has actually joined the staff of the Institute of Culinary Education, as the school’s first director of culinary affairs.
Waltuck, who was forced to close his beloved flagship after a planned renovation never saw the light of day, returned to the kitchen in 2012, with Élan, which on its best nights, evoked the magic of his first restaurant.
However, in March 2016, Waltuck announced that Élan too would certainly close, for mostly economic reasons. “We have actually a small restaurant, and it has actually not generated the level of business we had anticipated,” the chef told the Brand-new York Times in a frank interview.
In his Brand-new role, Waltuck will train culinary students as a chef instructor, as well as serve as a mentor and valuable connection between students and Brand-new York’s top restaurants as they seek externship placements. As culinary affairs director, Waltuck will also be in charge of keeping the school’s curriculum at pace with the restaurant industry’s high and changing standards. Waltuck will also teach in ICE’s School of Professional Development and School of Recreational Cooking.
“I’m looking forward to the opportunity to share the knowledge and experience I have actually gathered in my forty-year job as a chef with a Brand-new generation of aspiring professionals,” Waltuck said in a statement. “I have actually chosen to work with ICE because the program is excellent, the Brand-new facilities are state of the art and, most important, the instructors and administrators are experienced and deeply committed.”
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