Released on: December 14, 2007, 2:13 am

Press Release Author: Annette E Alvarez

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Who says you can\'t have a second career after 50? Don
Williams the New York City reporter with the gift of weaving pictures to words
transformed himself into DonClark, and the chef he knew he always was.

Press Release Body: Chef DonClark, formerly Don Williams of WNBC -- take a second .
. . deep voice, human-interest stories. Yea, that\'s him. Well, welcome Don to his
encore career. He is now a chef, with a design patent on a tostonera. A tostonera?
Those plantain chips that always accompany Hispanic food. Well, something has to
smash them. Take a second.

Tostones--sliced fried green plantains, smashed and refried--are served in many
Latin homes for lunch and/or dinner up to three, four times a week. \"It\'s
tradition,\" said Chef DonClark.

Anyway, next to his library of . . . cookbooks . . . the design patent, issued to
Donald Eugene Williams, June of 2006 is proudly displayed. Tostobueno® LLC is the
first company to manufacture high-end ethnic kitchenware in eco-friendly bamboo. And
he started it. Designing and crafting all the prototypes himself on his Harlem
terrace.

\"Lots of women told me their stories. They talked about their mothers using coffee
cans. Leaves of the plantains, bricks, the bottom of their plates, and brown paper
bags in an effort to smash the plantain. Many had bad memories of burning their
fingers, breaking dishes, and spending way too much time in the kitchen making
tostones as many as three times a day, he said.

And Don Williams the reporter with the gift of weaving pictures to words transformed
himself into DonClark, and the chef he knew he always was. \"It had taken countless
jobs and pursuits over my life to bring me to the one place that was just down the
hall to the right,\" he said. \"I\'d had the same room everywhere I\'d lived. Now as a
middle aged man, my life finally had meaning. I had literally found the place where
all the pieces fit. I had found my kitchen.\"

Google Tostobueno®: Food & Wine,The NY Post, The Miami Herald, Casa y Hogar,
Restaurante Mexicano. . . Daisy Martinez, of Daisy Cooks! when she first saw the
Tostobueno® said \"Why didn\'t I think of this.\" We\'ve been on WNBC\'s Weekend Today in
New York, Univision\'s Al Despertar, and Fox\'s morning show Good Day New York. And
all this in one year. Well, we\'ve only been in business, full force, for about a
year. So not bad!

Last Thursday Tostobueno® was featured in The Daily New\'s Hispanic supplement Hora
Hispana. Take a look. We can always use more press. Actually, we would LOVE more
press.

Oh, and btw -- in the middle of all this. Don had a baby girl. She\'s two. Alex.

So you see there is life after TV. :-)


Web Site: http://www.ChefDonClark.wordpress.com

Contact Details: Annette E Alvarez
470 Lenox Avenue
New York, NY
917 689 8459