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#iGourmand #Lucito #LucPaquin #Vino #Uvas #Curso #Consultant
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Los vinos pueden ser un tema fascinante y también una fuente de misterio y temor para aquellos quienes no conocen mucho acerca de este tema. Para aquellos que están en busca de una introducción al mundo interesante de los vinos, y quieren aprender las bases de cómo seleccionar vinos y estar familiarizados con el tema, ofrecemos un curso intensivo de 3 a 4 horas que le enseñará lo que necesita conocer para tener un conocimiento de vinos que funcione. El curso consiste de una parte teórica seguida por una degustación formal de 7 vinos diferentes.
Su Instructor, Luc Paquin, ha viajado a través del mundo como consultor de vino y comida gourmet y comprador de una variedad de empresas por más de 35 años. Su amplio conocimiento en el tema lo hace una fuente de información y su estilo informal hace el tema frecuentemente sorprendente, accesible a todos.
Aquí las cosas básicas que aprenderá en el curso:
Teoría
- Una breve historia del vino
- Cómo se hace el vino
- Los diferentes tipos de uvas
- Los diferentes tipos de vino
- Las más importantes regiones vinícolas del mundo
- Cómo leer una etiqueta de vino
- Cómo degustar el vino
- Combinación básica de vino-comida
- El orden y la temperatura para servir los vinos
Degustación
- Degustación de vino espumoso
- Degustación de vino blanco
- Degustación de vino rosado
- Degustación de vino tinto
Periodo de Preguntas
Conclusión
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Curriculum Vitae 2022
J. Luc Paquin 2022 – English & Español
Luc Paquin
Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.
Citizenship: Canadian
Luc Paquin
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/
English
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf
Español
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf
Web: https://www.igourmand.com/
Web: https://www.jlpconsultants.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neosteam.labs.9/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5eRjrGn1CqkkGfZy0jxEdA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/labs_steam
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/NeoSteamLabs/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luc.paquin/
Lucito
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#iGourmand #Lucito #LucPaquin #Food #Wine #Beer #Spirits #FoodDrinkIndustry #FoodIndustry #DrinkIndustry #Recipe #Consultant
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My Philosophy
I started as a Gourmet, and over the years my love for the pleasures of good food and good drinks became bigger than my love of the rituals, rules and the complications normally associated with the Gourmet world. For the last 20 years I converted myself from a Gourmet to a Gourmand and I have been crusading worldwide to demystify and simplify the pleasures associated with good food and good drinks. My goal is to teach and help everyone who has an interest in good food and good drinks to appreciate this sensual subject. We have to remember that the pleasures of the table are the only ones that are essential for our survival as an individual. That is probably why that some consider them a sin!
Services Offered to the General Public
- Introductory to advanced cooking classes and conferences
- Introductory to advanced wine/spirits/beer classes and conferences
- Introductory to advanced food and wine/spirits/beer matching classes
- Wine/spirits/beer tastings
- Food and wine/spirits/beer events for singles
- Romantic food and wine/spirits/beer events for couples
- Seminars on food/wine/spirits/beer/cigars/luxury items/etc… topics
- Event planning and catering
- Home kitchen design services
- Wine cellar design services
- Wine collection evaluation services
- Wine investment consulting services
- Motivational classes
Services Offered to the Food and Drink Industry
Sourcing Services
- Fine wines from a variety of countries
- Fine spirits from a variety of countries
- Fine beers from a variety of countries
- Non-perishable luxury/exotic food items
- Cooking utensils and appliances
- Fine tableware and crystal
- Perishable luxury/exotic food items
- Fine cigars
- Other luxury items
IT services
- Wine/Beer/Food/Cigar/Etc… education kiosks
- Client reward programs
- Branded cooking and other software
- Food/Wine matching engine
- Cutting edge web-portal
- Cutting edge POS and management software
- Multilingual food and wine blog
Consulting
- Food and beverage business planning
- Business plan analysis
- Restaurant analysis and consulting
- Menu analysis and preparation
- Wine list analysis and preparation
- Professional classes (cooking, food prep, sanitation, wine, spirits, beer, sommelier, etc…)
- Staff motivation seminars
- Event planning and catering
- Restaurant design
- Franchising
- Software and IT consulting
- Software POS and management solutions
- Vineyard Weather Monitoring
- Vineyard automation and machine learning grapevines
- Wine and viticulture consulting
- Commercial kitchen design services
- Wine cellar design services
- Wine collection and cellar evaluation services
- Wine investment consulting services
- Staff and restaurant certification programs
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Curriculum Vitae 2021
J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español
Luc Paquin
Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.
Citizenship: Canadian
Luc Paquin
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/
English
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf
Español
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf
Web: https://www.igourmand.com/
Web: https://www.jlpconsultants.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neosteam.labs.9/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5eRjrGn1CqkkGfZy0jxEdA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/labs_steam
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/NeoSteamLabs/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luc.paquin/
Lucito
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#iGourmand #Lucito #LucPaquin #Food #Wine #Beer #Spirits #FoodDrinkIndustry #FoodIndustry #DrinkIndustry #Recipe #Consultant
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Since Luc also had a profound interest in technology, he started studying the field of computer graphics that was in its infancy at the time. He invested heavily in computer hardware and software and was part of the beta testers of the first version of CorelDraw in 1988. At the time he became involved with clients worldwide as a professional designer of wine labels.
At the end of the eighties he was part of the negotiating that closed major wine production and exportation contracts with a large state run agricultural company in Yugoslavia (Agrokombinat “13. Jul” Titograd – Yugoslavia).
After many negotiation trips to Yugoslavia he was all packed up to go manage a huge vineyard (60,000 hectares) in Montenegro, then part of the old Yugoslavia, when the war broke in that part of the world. Luckily this happened before he had moved over there.
In 1990 Luc went to work in the south of England in a renowned vineyard that was famous for its white and sparkling wines (Carr-Taylor Vineyards, Hastings, United Kingdom). He learned a lot about vineyard management, viticulture, vinification and elaboration of fine wines.
When he returned to Canada Luc started to produce his own wines using frozen grape juice concentrate imported from various areas of France and later with fresh grapes. He continued producing his own wines until 2000. He was looking forward to the day that he could settle somewhere and manage his own vineyard, and produce his own wine.
In 1992 Luc was again ready to leave his country to spend over a year in South Africa working at various vineyards. He wanted to deepen his knowledge of winemaking, and the wine industry in general. As with his previous attempt to move to an area of the world that was politically unstable, the trip was cancelled at the last minute due to his sponsor’s concerns about his security as South Africa was in the last throws of Apartheid. Instead Luc spent the next many years traveling the world on short trips to various wine-producing regions to learn more about the wine business.
Since the mid-eighties Luc had been attending various prestigious wine events all over the world including the “Wine Spectator” events in New York and San Francisco. He continued doing so until the late 1990’s. Combined with his constant traveling all over the wine producing areas of the world, this permitted him to deepen his long list of contacts in the wine world.
In the first few years of the nineties Luc took a certification course in restaurant and hotel management. Over the years he has continued to be involved with both the professional and the ludic side of the food, beer and wine business. He also designed and programmed technological solutions for these industries. These includes point of sales solutions, eCommerce solutions, wine cellar management solutions, restaurant management solutions, point of profits solutions, food, beer and wine matching engines and databases, professional and consumer software, education kiosks, and much more.
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Curriculum Vitae 2021
J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español
Luc Paquin
Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.
Citizenship: Canadian
Luc Paquin
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/
English
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf
Español
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf
Web: https://www.igourmand.com/
Web: https://www.jlpconsultants.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neosteam.labs.9/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5eRjrGn1CqkkGfZy0jxEdA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/labs_steam
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/NeoSteamLabs/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luc.paquin/
Lucito
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#iGourmand #Lucito #LucPaquin #Food #Wine #Beer #Spirits #FoodDrinkIndustry #FoodIndustry #DrinkIndustry #Recipe #Consultant
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Luc was born as the only child of a middle-class family of French descent in a small village famous for its ski resort north of Montréal, Québec, Canada. He has nurtured a lifelong interest in cooking that he developed since early childhood at the side of his mother and his grandmother who were consummate cooks. At an early age he studied French cooking with his mother while she was taking classes with one of the most renowned teachers in Montreal, “Professeur Bernard”
In the late 1970’s while studying at university he developed a great interest in wines. One day he decided to start learning more about wine and like everything else he does in his life he had to do it in great depth. Armed with a series of wine encyclopedias, he started to buy wines from all over the world and learned all that he could about them. By the mid-eighties he was a professional wine consultant and had amassed a collection of close to 5000 bottles of wine.
During that same period in the evenings after university he was taking Chinese cooking and painting classes with Dick Chen at the Chen School of Art. This lasted for over 4 years.
Later he was involved in the professional side of the wine and food business both as a consultant and a buyer for a variety of private concerns during the 1980’s and 1990’s. It permitted him to travel the world extensively.
A renowned British wine merchant was his business partner at the time, and he sponsored many of Luc’s business trips during that period and through various contacts in the wine business in Europe and other parts of the world Luc learned a lot about the wine industry in general and wine as an investment in particular.
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Curriculum Vitae 2021
J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español
Luc Paquin
Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.
Citizenship: Canadian
Luc Paquin
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/
English
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf
Español
https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf
Web: https://www.igourmand.com/
Web: https://www.jlpconsultants.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neosteam.labs.9/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5eRjrGn1CqkkGfZy0jxEdA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/labs_steam
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/NeoSteamLabs/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luc.paquin/
Lucito
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#iGourmand #Lucito #luch #duck #DuckBreast #honey #food #recipe #wine #consultant #zoom #videoblog
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Seared Crispy Skin Duck Breast
Ingredients
2 Duck Breast
2 tsp Ground Ginger
2 tbp Ground Paprika
2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
2 tsp Honey
Honey
Himalayan Pink Salt & Black Pepper
Olive Oil Extra Virgin
Preparation
1. Dry the duck breasts with a paper towel paper.
2. Score the duck skin with sharp knife, making sure to not cut into the flesh.
3. Season the duck breasts on both sides with ginger, paprika, honey, salt and pepper.
4. Preheat the oven to 400F (200C).
5. Starting with a cold olive oil and pan, place the duck breasts skin side down.
6. Cook for 12-15 minutes over medium heat.
7. Flip the breasts over and sear the other side for 1 minute.
8. Flip to the skin side down, and transfer the skillet to the oven.
9. Roast for 4 minutes for medium-rare
10. Caramelization is the browning of honey, a process used extensively in cooking for the resulting sweet nutty flavor and brown color.
11. Rest the duck skin-side and honey up for 10 minutes.
Wine
- -Arrogant Frog
- -Sud de France
- -Languedoc
- -Pays D’Oc
- -Pinot Noir
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Curriculum Vitae 2021
English
https://www.igourmand.com/cv/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf
Español
https://www.igourmand.com/cv/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf
Web: https://www.igourmand.com/
Web: http://www.jlpconsultants.com/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luc.paquin/
Lucito
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A Concept for a New Kind of Gastronomy and Luxury Goods Business
This document is to outline a business concept that has been in the back of my mind for many years. The main reason that it is still in the back of my mind is that the project requires substantial commitments and financing and that I was always waiting to find a place where I wanted to settle down and for other projects to move forward to be able to start this one.
After postponing it for a couple of decades, I think that it is a good idea to bring it to the forefront and actually work on making it come through as the time seems right. This document is not a business plan, but a way to put all the ideas that have been turning in my head for so many years. I plan to present it to various people to see if the project makes sense and is worth investing substantial efforts in preparing a formal business plan and finding proper financing.
What is missing in most gastronomy business?
For a large part of my live I have been living in areas where the local availably of high-end or gourmet food, wine, beer, spirits and luxury items was at best spotty. You could find some of the things required for gourmet cooking and luxury items in some places, but availability was always difficult, so I normally did my ‘luxury’ shopping when I was traveling to cities where they were available. I remember when I was living in Sudbury, in Northern Ontario; I used to make infrequent trips to Montreal to load up on things from the wine cellar to the kitchen and more. In those days Montreal was always a better choice than Toronto as more was available and at a better price.
The main problem with these trips was finding the time to hit all the right shops in a reasonable amount of time. A typical trip to Montreal would start by me stopping at a large shop that specialized in tableware and cooking tools. I normally picked up some crystal glasses and a variety of kitchen gadgets there. The next step was to stop at the fancy wine, beer, liquor store downtown, the “Maison des Vins” and load up on everything I could find from champagnes, wines, beer, Armagnac, and whatever else I could find. While downtown I would stop at my favorite cigar shop, and also do a bit of shopping for luxury items. I would also visit Chinatown for all my Chinese cooking needs. On my way out of town I would pick up 12 dozen bagels at the Fairmont bagel factory. Next stop was my butcher to pick up some fresh vacuum-packed foie gras, and stop at a nice fish place where I would get some frozen scampi, assorted seafood, smoked salmon, some canned foie gras, oscietra and beluga caviar, truffles, and whatever else I needed back home. I normally drove back to Sudbury straight from the shopping trip several thousands of dollars poorer, but I had my luxury supplies for the next 3-6 months.
This was over 38 years ago and even back in those days I was always thinking that somebody should put together a proper gourmet, luxury item shop so that people looking for the best could have a one stop place to go for all of their needs. Some large department stores offer a lot of those items, but normally at a huge premium and choice can be spotty in periods outside of the holiday season. Another problem with most large department stores is that they do not normally group these various items in a way that is shopper friendly and you end up going up and down the store with heavy bags to do all of your shopping.
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English
https://www.igourmand.com/cv/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf
Español
https://www.igourmand.com/cv/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf
Web: https://www.igourmand.com/
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Lucito
Due to the great success of last Saturday’s “Introduction to Wine” course and the lack of space to accommodate everybody who wished to participate, we opened a new date for the course this coming Saturday May 22. We still have a few available places left for it. We have a special promotion if you register with a friend, you get 10% off. All the details are HERE, or call us at 1736 9016 or 044 55 3191 2732 in the Mexico City metropolitan area.
During the course you will learn all the basic things you need to demystify the wonderful world of wine. At the end of the theoretical part of the course we do a formal tasting of 7 different wines. All the course’s material is included on a CD, including a free copy of our professional wine tasting software.
The course’s price is MN$1350 (MN$1215 if you register with a friend) and we require a MN$350 deposit to reserve your spot. Reserve now as there are only a few spaces left.
Here is a little bit of what is in store for you:
Lucito
We still have a few available places left for this Saturday’s “Introduction to Wine” course. We have a special promotion if you register with a friend, you get 10% off. All the details are HERE, or call us at 1736 9016 in the Mexico City metropolitan area.
During the course you will learn all the basic things you need to demystify the wonderful world of wine. At the end of the theoretical part of the course we do a formal tasting of 7 different wines. All the course’s material is included on a CD, including a free copy of our professional wine tasting software.
The course’s price is MN$1350 (MN$1215 if you register with a friend) and we require a MN$350 deposit to reserve your spot. Reserve now as there are only a few spaces left.
Here is a little bit of what is in store for you:
Lucito
We are proud to announce a new date for our Introduction to Wine course in the Mexico City area. The course will be held on May 15th and all the details are available HERE. During the course you will learn all the basic things you need to demystify the wonderful world of wine. At the end of the theoretical part of the course we do a formal tasting of 7 different wines. All the course’s material is included on a CD, including our professional wine tasting software.
The course’s price is MN$1350 and we require a MN$350 deposit to reserve your spot. Reserve early as spaces are limited.
Here is a short excerpt of what is in store for you:
BTW, this course will be in Spanish, but if there is a demand for it I can also give this course and all my courses and conferences in English or French. I can also travel worldwide to your locality to give classes and conferences on a variety of subjects. Please contact me directly for more information.
Lucito
In the coming months we will start posting short excerpts of the various courses, classes, tastings and conference we offer. We are just gearing up production of them as we normally tape all of our events. We are using a very good, but old Hi-8 camera and it is not amenable to quick production as transferring the videos to digital media is time consuming as you have to capture it in real time and the hardware and software we currently use causes problems if you do something else on the computer at the same time. This essentially means that if you want to digitize a 2 hour tape you lose the use of your computer for at least 2 hours. Not useful if you have other things to do.
We are considering various options right now to streamline the capture of the videos, increase their quality, and make producing them a lot less time consuming for us. The first step might be to move video production to another system in the office, but I have yet yet to find one that is not used and has enough power to make this worthwhile. We’ll see about that. In the mid term we will need to get a good quality digital camcorder and a better video-editing suite. I used to have a professional video-editing suite when we still lived in Canada, but it is packed away with most of our stuff over there, and in any case the technology from over 10 years ago is very updated by now as it was all analog-based.
Anyways, enough rambling. Here is a link to our main site where some videos of our current “Introduction to Wine” course are posted:
https://www.igourmand.com/videos.html
You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DonLucito
Once we gear up production we will be posting the videos on YouTube regularly. We will also start posting cooking videos once we can figure out the logistics of doing it properly.
We lack the proper space to do it well in our kitchen right now as even taking simple photos is not easy as the contrast between either black or white countertops and our dishes that are all white makes life miserable. We are currently looking at various alternatives there too. The ideal would be to move to a bigger house where we could setup a permanent place for the cooking and wine school and operate from there. Right now we rent space in various places for our events and we could alternatively rent commercial space and have a permanent place four our events. Strangely enough a few seconds ago as I was starting to write this, somebody called us to offer us commercial space at a decent price in a large mall. We’ll see what life brings us…
BTW, if somebody in the Mexico City area, or who owns property in the Mexico City area reads this and you have a larger-sized house in a good area of town for rent, please contact me directly at jlpaquin@igourmand.com so we can discuss what you have to offer.
Lucito