New and Innovative Concepts in Catering and Private Chef Services

 

Focusing our expertise on local, organic and health supportive cuisine prepared with vibrancy and elegance.          

Cultivated Tastes’ Chef Gerry Herrfurth will customize menus and services tailored to ensure a memorable meal or event.  This list of recent functions will gives a small idea of what we can offer:  

*Prepared Dishes for Weekly Family Meals Prepared in your home.   (Locally-sourced organic chicken, beef, pork, lamb, seasonal produce and sustainable seafood upon request).    

*Per Diem Private Chef Services for Home or Business 

Cultivated Tastes also offers full catering services, including function management, professional wait staff and bartending services. Chef Gerry and his wife Kendall, along with Chef Tim partnered on this list of recent memorable events.

 

*Elegant Thanksgiving feast for 20 people featuring local organic turkey, gluten- free, vinegar- free side dishes and desserts along with full service (set-up, serving, bartending, breakdown, and cleanup).

 

*Halloween costume cocktail party with passed hors d’oeuvres and buffet for 30 people featuring an eclectic Asian menu with authentic ingredients and preparations.

 

*Casual Retirement Party for 30 people with a tailored menu cooked outdoors featuring sustainable, local and organic ingredients, passed hors d’oeuvres, wild pheasant and compostable and robust palm plates (alternative to plastic).

 

*Elegant Summer BBQ-Themed 50th Birthday Party Event, (2 Guests of honor) for 150 people. All organic menu with passed hors d’oeuvres and buffet including Carolina Pulled Local Pork and Local Beef Chili.

 

*Customized 100% Gluten- Free, Vegan and Organic Graduation Party for 30 people. Buffet Menu included Vegan Lasagna, Moroccan Chickpea and Eggplant along with a variety of vibrant and flavorful salads.

 

*Katonah Museum, Second Saturday Event 120 people featuring a customized passed hors d’oeuvres menu of 100% Organic and Sustainable ingredients. Items included Maple-cured Irish Organic Smoked Salmon, Watermelon, Feta and Mint Skewers, Medjool Organic Dates stuffed with Organic Blue Cheese.

 

*7-Day Vegan Detox Cleanse for a six person Yoga Class  with a customized organic lunch and dinner menu featuring recipes free of wheat, egg, yeast, sugar, meat, alcohol and dairy.

 

*Elegant and festive Chinese New Year Celebration for 40 people featuring client driven menu

Passed hors d’oeuvres and buffet menu highlighting authentic Chinese ingredients and preparations including: Hot and Sour Oxtail Soup, Chinese Dumplings with Dipping Sauce, Handmade Spring Rolls, Peking Duck Rolls, Crispy Shrimp with Orange Dipping Sauce, Vegetarian Stir Fry Tofu: Ma-Bo Tofu, Stir Fry Bok Choy and Asian Vegetables, Eggplant in Garlic Sauce, Shanghai Fried Noodle with Chinese Vegetables, Chicken and Cashews, and Special Orange Dessert

 

 

 

Contact Us

To discuss your needs and custom designed menus to fit your event or lifestyle.

845-227-3882

chefgerryh@aol.com

Organic Connection Chef’s Offer New Service

Welcome to Cultivated Tastes,  a new private/personal chef  and catering service by the former chef’s at Organic Connection, in Brewster NY.

Providing new and innovative concepts in home cooked meals as well as catering holiday events, formal affairs, dinner parties and customized private chef services for discerning clients.

We are focusing on servicing former Organic Connection store customers and catering clients along with new clients by providing high quality, healthy, vibrant, nutritious, organic and elegantly prepared food.

For more information please contact Chef Gerry at chefgerryh@aol.com