On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 04:55:53 -0700 (PDT), Siskuwihane
<Siskuwihane1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Aug 9, 2:13 am, Mike Vandeman <mjva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Evolution in action....
>
>This news must have hit Mike pretty hard.
>
>http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7161984&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
>
>Metro Chef Dies In Colorado Hiking Accident
>
>Last Edited: Thursday, 07 Aug 2008, 9:02 PM CDT
>Created: Thursday, 07 Aug 2008, 9:02 PM CDT
>
>
>A young but well known Kansas City chef has died while hiking in the
>mountains near Breckenridge, Colorado.
>
>Ryan Torpey, 31, didn't return from a hike on Wednesday. Search and
>Rescue had been searching for him ever since and found his body on
>Thursday.
>
>Torpey was vacationing with family in Colorado for his sister's
>wedding. The coroner said it appears Torpey died in a fall. Friends
>and co-workers were shocked to hear the news.
>
>Torpey grew up in the metro and is a Park Hill graduate. He started
>out in Kansas City at Le Fou Frog. He was just out of culinary
>school, Cordon Bleu in Oregon.
>
>"You could see he was brilliant," Barbara Rafael, co-owner of Le Fou
>Frog, said.
>
>Rafael said Torpey was well liked and the girls called him Brad Pitt.
>But she said he especially made an impression on her husband, Le Fou
>Frog's chef.
>
>"My husband liked him and that's a big deal because there's a lot of
>people in this industry and when you see ****ning stars you thank your
>stars they came to you and we were really lucky to have him working at
>the Frog," Rafael said.
>
>Torpey recently got his big break as executive chef of the Swizzle on
>71st and Wornall. It recently closed despite rave reviews that called
>Torpey, "the best chef you've never heard of, a real talent."
>
>"We heard great things that his menu was fabulous and he was just a
>really a talented kid and it's really sad," Rafael said.
>
>Swizzle's owner still currently owns the Gaf on Wornall and he had
>just learned of Torpey's death Thursday afternoon and was not prepared
>to talk about it yet.
>
>"It's shocking and very very sad and I'm sorry for his family and his
>friends and it's a great loss to the Kansas City restaurant industry,"
>Rafael said.
>
>The trail where Torpey died is a difficult one, rated for experienced
>to advanced climbers. But his family told rescue crews that Torpey had
>climbed it before and was a skilled hiker.
>
>Tess Koppelman, FOX 4 News
The fact that you waste time LOOKING for stuff like this shows what
idiots mountain bikers (and mountain biker apologists) are.
--
I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are
fond of!
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
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