Who is Bavarian Chef Keem

Mom served Austrian/Bohemian cuisine in our Munich home.
Dad baked the cakes and prepared his wonderful elbow macaroni with ground beef sauce.
Achim ate. And played in bands. And became a musician.
Achim met a nice girl from San Antonio, Texas and moved to America!

Years later, I rediscovered my passion for cooking and enrolled in Chef School.
After several years of cooking in some of Austin's fine restaurants I started my own specialty food company.

Every year, between August and October, I cook for the guests at the Driftwood Lodge in SE Alaska. In 2006, famous wildlife artist Ronnie Wells spent a week of fishing and eating with us. One day, I gave him a big lump of molding chocolate with the request: "Make me!" He did.

If you ever come to Salado, Texas, you must stop at the Wells Gallery. Ronnie's sculptures and painting are on display in many places across the nation and his roster of accolades seems to be endless.

After graduating from high school in 1966, I tried "employment" for a while: apprentice in a large ad company, apprentice in a tiny ad company, film developer for Bavarian Film Studios (one day, I had to step down from a side walk on the studio lot, so Orson Welles could pass), retail store clerk - nothing was "creative" enough for me.

Years later, in America, I tried it again, working as a line cook, pastry chef, or sous chef for various restaurants. Finally, in 2001 I was laid off and started my own company, "Sweet Venus Delights".

Now, I want to be a successful online marketeer, too! Look, I'm 59 years old, in May of 2008. I don't have much time left, so help me out and gimme star ratings in order to secure my retirement income. ;-)

There was a period in my younger years when I seemed to be always in the right place, at the right time, meeting the right people. Around 1971, one of Germany's most successful lyricist and record producer, Michael Kunze, took me under his wings. I wrote the tunes, he added the lyrics, and then he shopped our songs to record companies. We wrote for GAS (Germany/Austria/Switzerland) artists such as Peter Maffay, Caterina Valente, Chris Roberts, Rex Gildo, Peter Alexander, and many new singing talents. The picture shows me (Konjack) with my duo partner Olaf Kaminski on the cover of a silly little song single we'd released in 1979, just for the fun of it.

In 1973, CBS Germany hired me to run their Munich A & R office, and I had the great fortune to meet and work with incredible stars of the music scene, i.e. Chicago, (I'm so proud that Chicago bass man Jason Scheff subscribed to my YouTube channel!), Donna Summer, Albert Hammond, and others. Among them were many friends who today live and work successfully from their Los Angeles mansions: Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer, Sylvester Levay, Silver Convention.

These days, I'm happy with my little home studio on my iMac. Every once in a while I write a piece, put it all together with my keyboard and GarageBand software, and upload it to YouTube.

I know my weenie! I love love to eat my weenie! I'm always on the lookout for a superior weenie...

Please get more details about this delicate subject on my "Weenie" lens.

Refined sugar is bad for us. That's my mantra. Basta! Equally dangerous are artificial sweeteners like Nutrasw...well, you know the culprits.

I'm on a mission to spread the word on great alternative sweeteners, all natural and organic, if possible. Something like my splendid (hidden pun alert!) Agasweet flavored agave nectar.

Here's your home work:

Agasweet
"No more sugar, baby!"
"Sugar Ain't, Sweetie!"

... you'll automatically be making a donation to The Acumen Fund, working to solve global poverty.

Doesn't that feel good?