Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Welcome to Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria, hosted by architect, blogger, traveler, chef, father, husband, and founding partner of Candelaria Design Associates. Mark has designed timeless homes across the country for forty years, while hosting tours to Italy, Spain, and beyond. Throughout the course of his journey, Mark has met wonderful people who truly inspire him and this podcast is about them and the opportunities that are all around us to Inspire Living! While we talk about architecture and design on this podcast, Mark also introduces you to a wide gamut of guests and industries, and ventures into all sorts of topics that will teach you, motivate you and inspire living your best life.
Inspiring Living with Mark Candelaria
Creating Gastronomic Masterpieces With ArchiChef Cory Oppold
This episode is a re-visit of a past episode with Chef Cory Oppold, who was just awarded "Top Chef" and his new restaurant Course was awarded "Emerging Restaurant of the Year" by The Arizona Restaurant Association.
Cory was a former winner of Food Network’s Chopped, and new owner of Course, a fine dining restaurant in Scottsdale. At Course, “Chef Cory Oppold and his culinary team take you on a food exploration through an explosion of both your taste and visual senses, using seasonality of products and a progression of flavor.”
Cory’s prior positions include teaching at the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Executive Chef at Tarbell's restaurant in Phoenix and Executive Chef at Atlas Bistro. His childhood was spent on an dairy farm in a small town in Illinois. It wasn't until he came to Arizona to study architecture that Cory first encountered fine dining and the experience led him to enroll at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute where he graduated with honors in 2002.
Today, Corey was able to transition his upscale catering and event dining company Course into a full-service restaurant in early 2023. Cory’s innovative spirit makes his dishes not only creative delights, but also accessible in many different dining experiences. “I believe a menu is everything a chef wants to say at that time and moment and it’s hard for us to tell our story with one dish. That is why every guest gets multiple courses while experiencing my cuisine,” says Chef Cory.
We also had the privilege of having Corey join us in the Candelaria Kitchen for a cooking class a few years back! In the video on our website & YouTube, he walks us through making pan seared scallops with cornbread pudding, zucchini, fennel soubise, and tomato coulis.
For photos and more on this episode & cooking class, and all our past episodes, visit: https://www.candelariadesign.com/inspiring-living-podcast