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Food Network host recounts journey to TV
Guest lecture was icing on the cake for Duff Goldman fans
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BY JONATHASHORMAN
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In Duff Goldman's world, baking cakes is full of funny business.
Goldman, host of the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes," had the audience laughing during his lecture at Murphy Hall last night.
Speaking as part of SUAs Student Lecture Series, Goldman recounted his life journey from teen-grafitti artist to cable television reality star. It was Julia Child who first sparked his interest in cooking.
"My cartoons were Julia Child." Goldman said.
In junior high, after being arrested for graffiti, Goldman's parents and teachers directed his artistic passions toward sculpture. Yet his interest in cooking remained.
In college, while studying history and philosophy, Goldman began working at a major restaurant in Baltimore knowing that his true calling was cooking. He started low on the food chain, but watched an old French pastry chef closely, learning his tricks and techniques.
After college, Goldman moved on to culinary school. When he discovered a talent for wedding cakes, he started a cake business out of his apartment.
Goldman worked a series of competitions and opportunities until his profile had grown enough
that he was offered a show by Food Network.
"It's not luck'
"You really do
make your own
luck."
Goldman said that his key to success had been to simply do the best job he could. He
existed outside the field they were trained in.
Allison Johnson, a freshman
"You really do make your own luck."
advised students to be flexible in their post-graduation plans and to realize that great opportunities
DUFF GOLDMAN Food Network host
a freshman from Overland Park, said Coldman was hilarious while sending a message.
"Whatever you do, it can lead to a different opportunity," Johnson said.
Goldman also took questions from the audience. One question-
er challenged Goldman to send a Jayhawk cake if the University won the national championship. Goldman said that would require a lot of cake.
Goldman was also asked why he didn't like cupcakes. He said that while he would eat one, cupcakes were unenjoyable to make because of the repetitive nature of the work. He also said a large number of people who made cupcakes falsely believed they could bake.
-Edited by Becca Harsch
Duff Goldman from the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes" talks to students about enterpenuiship last night at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Goldman talked about how he started his business, Charm City Cakes, and other challenges that he has faced throughout his career.
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RESEARCH
KU Geologists make discovery
Geologists at the University have discovered that the oldest examples of life on Earth are, in fact, nothing more than bits of
minerals trapped in ancient rock.
Alison Olcott Marshall and Craig Marshall, assistant professors of geology at the University, began their research when Craig Marshall collected new samples rom Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. They sliced the rock samples into tiny sections and
composed of iron and oxygen, which can take the appearance of bacteria.
examined them with the most advanced spectrometer dedicated to paleontology in the United States, located at the University's Multidisciplinary Research Building.
The research was published recently in the Nature Geoscience journal. The scientists wrote that their research argues for more rigorous testing of microfossils, which is applicable to the search
in an Australian rock formation called the Apex Chert as the earliest evidence of life anywhere. After re-examining samples of the rock formation, geologists at the University found no evidence of any microfossils in the rock They instead found tiny fragments of hematite, a mineral
The scientific community had previously identified the 3.5 billion-year-old fossilized bacteria
for life on Mars. In 1996, researchers who announced the discovery of fossil bacteria on Mars later found that their samples contained mineral fragments instead.
— Ian Cummings