Roland Henin facts for kids

Roland G. Henin is a famous American chef. He works as the main chef and food expert for a big company called Delaware North Companies. He is one of only about 60 chefs in the United States who have earned the title of "certified master chef." This means he has reached the highest level of cooking skill and knowledge. Throughout his career, he has been known as a very skilled chef, a great teacher, and someone who helps create cookbooks. He even coached a chef named Timothy Hollingsworth for a very important cooking contest called the Bocuse d'Or in France in 2009.

A Master Chef's Journey

Roland G. Henin has had a long and impressive career in the world of cooking. He is known for his amazing skills and for helping other chefs become their best.

Coaching and Mentoring

Chef Henin has a special talent for teaching and guiding other chefs. He mentored, or guided, a very well-known chef named Thomas Keller. Later, Thomas Keller even helped choose Chef Henin to coach for the Bocuse d'Or competition.

Chef Henin also coached the U.S. team for the 1992 Culinary Olympics. This is a big international cooking competition, and his team won a gold medal!

Awards and Teaching

Because of his success, Chef Henin received the first-ever National Chef Professionalism Award from the American Culinary Federation. This award showed how much he cared about being a professional chef.

His achievements helped him become the director of the Culinary Arts Department at the Art Institute of Seattle. He has also taught at two other famous cooking schools: the Culinary Institute of America and Johnson & Wales College of Culinary Arts.

Work at Delaware North

At Delaware North, Chef Henin is in charge of all the cooking operations. This includes food at national parks, sports stadiums, and entertainment places all over the world. He helped the company create its first cookbook, Pathways to Plate, and a second one called Home Plate.

In 2008, a special scholarship was created in his name at the Culinary Institute of America. This scholarship helps future students who want to study cooking at the school.

Chef Henin also coached five chefs from Delaware North for the 2008 Culinary Olympics in Germany. All five chefs did very well. Two of them, Ambarish Lulay and Scott Green, won silver medals, and Kevin Doherty earned a bronze medal.

Early Career Highlights

Before working at Delaware North, Chef Henin was the head chef at OSF International and Truitt Bros. in Oregon. He also worked as a chef de cuisine (a head chef in charge of the kitchen) at the five-star Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.