Cook To Rock Stars Settles In Blanchard

Master Chef Steve Geving talks about making your own chicken stock during a cooking class at Blanchard Community Center earlier this month. After a career cooking for rock stars and celebrities, Geving is semi-retired and lives in the small Idaho town. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

The swan stopped him in his tracks. Steve Geving had been running through an alley on his way home from school in Moorhead, Minnesota, when he saw the bird emerging from a block of ice behind a downtown hotel. “It was Swan 101,” Geving said. And it would alter the course of his life. The resplendence of the frozen waterfowl – along with something the ice sculptor had said to him – resonated: “If you always want to be stay warm in winter and cool in summer and have food in your belly, why don’t you come by and visit with the chef?” That sounded pretty good to Geving, then 14. “Two weeks later, I was in the kitchen working, and I never looked back,” said Geving, who later apprenticed in Europe and went on to cook for the likes of Elvis Presley, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and the Rolling Stones. Nearly 50 years later, he’s still cooking/ Adriana Janovich , SR. More here.