CMC Culinary Institute director featured on Rocky Mountain PBS

Kevin Clarke, Director of Culinary Education at CMC Breckenridge, will be featured in a Rocky Mountain PBS series this Sunday. — Kevin Clarke, Director of Culinary Education at CMC Breckenridge, will be featured in a “Hittin’ The Road” segment on Rocky Mountain PBS Sunday, March 22.

Kevin Clarke, director of the Colorado Mountain College Culinary Institute, will take the spotlight this Sunday, March 22, when the PBS television series “Hittin’ the Road” features him cooking in the institute’s commercial teaching kitchen at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge.

The educational program, produced by Rocky Mountain Adventure Quest, features different aspects of life in the American West, from gold mining and dinosaurs to Colorado’s wine country. The episode featuring Clarke traces the origin of olives at an olive grove in Arizona and highlights some of the uses of olive oil.

From left, Donna Vessey, host of "Hittin' the Road" and CMC's Kevin Clarke in in the kitchen at CMC in Breckenridge. — From left, Donna Vessey, host of “Hittin’ the Road” and CMC’s Kevin Clarke in in the kitchen at CMC in Breckenridge.

Clarke, along with host Donna Vessey, prepares several dishes made with olive oil – among them a bread and tomato appetizer with grilled garlic and olives, and a pistachio olive oil cake.

“Hittin’ the Road” featuring CMC Culinary Institute’s Keven Clarke airs Sunday, March 22, at 11:30 a.m. on Rocky Mountain PBS Channel 6.