John & Cecile's family website
updated: 2009.05.20
Welcome to the private family website of John & Cecile Stadler. Our youngest daughter, Cara Stadler, has recently joined us in Beijing (after culinary training in Paris and Singapore) and this site has been updated to include her food photos, food services and our Beijing Bed and Breakfast offerings (Cara is cooking).
For Beijing Bed & Breakfast booking information,
please see Beijing B&B info below and in the sidebar.
For information about Gourmet Underground -- catering services, booking a private dinner, 5-course tasting menus, and more information about Cara Stadler's food offerings -- please see GU info below and the GU website.
In other family news, our oldest daughter, Lauren Stadler (aka Mei-Mei), has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study waste water treatment in New Delhi India beginning this September 2009. This means the whole family will be in Asia (yea!) for the first time ever. Congratulations Mei-Mei!
This site is still under construction, but the new Maine house is finally (mostly) done. I promise to post some photos of the finished house when I return this summer. We are expecting many visitors this summer. To see who's coming when, a shared google calendar has been started. You can also see the current Mermaid schedule HERE.
John's blog Expat Nation can be found at http://stadlerhome.com/expatnation/.
Russell's blog can be found at http://russellstadler.com/pantsfarm/. Recipes, journal entries and an online message board will be coming soon (really)! In the meantime, feel free to browse the site.
Gourmet Underground
Gourmet Underground is a private supper club and catering business started by our daughter Cara Stadler. Cara is a professionally trained chef (France, USA, Singapore, China), having graduated from Cordon Bleu Paris and trained under some remarkable chefs (Guy Savoy, Gordon Ramsay, Emmanuel Stroobant, and Christopher Lee). She offers catering services (business lunches and canapés for cocktail parties), gourmet-to-go meal delivery, cooking classes and private 5-course tasting dinners. For more information about Cara, sample menus, food photos, and booking information, please see the Gourmet Underground website.Beijing Bed & Breakfast
Visiting Beijing this summer?
We offer a home away from home, including a full western breakfast (prepared daily by resident gourmet chef), for Beijing travelers.
Our 3BR, 2 bath, 217 m2 apartment is in a luxury compound centrally located in Workers Stadium.
The apartment has a fully equipped Western-style open kitchen, washer and dryer, several computers with internet access, and a large screen, surround-sound home theater. Normally our home, the apartment has a wide selection of movies, books, games, and other materials not normally available in a hotel room.
The complex has excellent access to restaurants; the top nightclubs are located within a few hundred meters; first class health club with swimming pool, squash, aerobics in building; underground parking also available.
- Master Suite (private bath): US$750/week, US$125/night
- Guest Rooms (shared bath): US$450/week, US$75/night
- All 3 Rooms: US$1500/week, US$250/night.
Expats of the World Unite!
If you are already an expat, you know what it feels like to be on the front lines of the globalization transformation. Even if you have managed to live your entire life without leaving your homeland, you might have noticed that things are different – there are a lot more "foreigners" walking around, for one. Different languages spoken on the street, different groceries available at the corner market, different ways to offend people with comics, or spitting, or asking for the check... There is something major going on in every city of the world – there is nothing to do but recognize it!But what, exactly, is it? Globalization is a term that usually refers to textile workers losing their jobs because everyone is shopping at Walmart. In fact, it is a transformation that is re-defining economics, culture, education, and politics everywhere in the world. And for those of us who are choosing to live, work, and travel further from our homeland, globalization means we are living on the bleeding edge.
Want to read more? John's blog -- Expat Nation -- can be found here...
