FIYou: Mohammad A. Qureshi ’92, MS ’97

FIYou - Mohammad Qureshi

Name: Mohammad A. Qureshi ’92, MS ’97 Hometown: Okara and Lahore, Pakistan; Miami Fla. Job Title/Department: Assistant Dean, Facilities and Administration, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Campus: Biscayne Bay Campus In a nutshell: I provide leadership and supervision to the school’s day-to-day operations, including budgets and facilities projects. This [...]

Do try this at home: A holiday dessert à la FIU student-chefs

Dec 15

What would our Panther Holiday Cooking Special be without a delicious dessert? Not a complete meal – and certainly no fun at all. FIU alumnus and student-chef Rodney Barchi ’04 puts the finishing touch on our holiday menu with his award-winning recipe for spiced pumpkin crème brulée and ladyfinger cookies. [...]

Do try this at home: A holiday entrée à la FIU student-chefs

Christian Poole's Asian cranberry glazed roasted duck.

Our Panther Holiday Cooking Special would not be complete without a centerpiece dish around which to gather this holiday season. This week, FIU student-chef Christian Poole shares with us his recipe for Asian cranberry glazed roasted duck. Last week, Christian Poole and Laura Mañon, two outstanding student-chefs in the School [...]

Do try this at home: Another holiday side dish à la FIU student-chefs

FIU student-chefs Rodney Barchi '04, Laura Mañon and Christian Poole, whetting our appetites with the delicious meal they prepared for our Panther Holiday Cooking Special.

Our Panther Holiday Cooking Special continues with FIU student-chef Laura Mañon showing us how to make a yucca and butternut squash with pecan and cippolini onion topping mash. Yesterday, we shared with you the recipe and how-to video for one of the dishes – an acorn squash soufflé – that [...]

Do try this at home: A holiday menu à la FIU student-chefs

Dec 8

This week, FIU student-chef Christian Poole kicks things off by showing us how to make an acorn squash soufflé. Late in November, we had a most delicious idea: What if we asked our outstanding School of Hospitality and Tourism Management students to prepare a seasonal menu to give our readers [...]

The taste of a decade, an opportunity to win a trip to ‘SoBe’

Sept 28 2

The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival will celebrate 10 years of providing financial support and on-hand experience to FIU’s hospitality students next winter. A new cookbook looks back on a decade’s worth of recipes and offers a chance to win an all-inclusive trip to “SoBe” in 2011. [...]

Savoring Success

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School of Hospitality and Tourism Management grad Allen Susser ’78 sizzles in the kitchen and in his commitment to FIU By Martin Haro ’05 The first thing chef Allen Susser ’78 ever cooked at his renowned restaurant was swordfish on a wood-burning grill he had brought home after spending a [...]

Guide to Fall 2010 semester

A view of BBC.

As blue-and-gold enthusiasm builds for the 2010-’11 academic year, here is a guide of important information for incoming freshmen, transfer students and returning Panthers. As summer break comes to a close, FIU is set to welcome the newest members of our growing family to our pack, as well as our [...]

Look what “FIU Magazine” is cookin’ for fall

June 30

The Fall 2010 issue of FIU Magazine is currently in production and aiming for a late-August street date – right before the beginning of classes. Among the stories you will read are an exciting FIU football season preview, everything you will need to know to be a part of Homecoming [...]

Hospitality student wins internship, heads to Napa

Perry Hoffman (first from left), School of Hospitality Interim Dean Joan Remington and Rodney Barchi '04 (far right) mingle with FIU students during the 2010 "SoBe."

Rodney Barchi ’04 will spend three months learning at étoile Restaurant at the Domaine Chandon winery in northern California. Napa Valley is about to get Pantherized. Rodney Barchi ’04 already had a degree in management from the College of Business Administration when he decided to pursue a second bachelor’s in [...]