CIOs Offer Their Holiday Recipes for Success

Teri Takai and Phil Bertolini, co-executive directors of the Center for Digital Government*, collected favorite holiday recipes from chief information officers across the nation, mixed in their own favorite offerings and folded them all into a brief virtual cookbook that’s designed to entice and inspire. The culinarily inclined California CIOs, listed alphabetically, include:

• Bertolini, the former deputy county executive and CIO for Oakland County, Michigan, makes Bertolini Cheesy Potatoes.  
• Linda Gurell, San Francisco’s CIO, offers a triple play: salt and vinegar chicken wings, wontons and festive drinks.
• Los Angeles County CIO Bill Kehoe shares the secrets to his “famous holiday fruit salad.”
• Rob Lloyd, CIO for the city of San Jose, favors BST Pasta, a concoction featuring bacon, spinach and tomatoes.
• Takai, former CIO of the state of California and the U.S. Department of Defense, suggests holiday snacking with vanilla almond granola.
• Brian Sastokas, CIO of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, suggests fig, goat cheese and arugula flatbread, accompanied by a Black Manhattan cocktail.

In all, 16 IT executives’ holiday treats may be found in CDG’s printable compendium, which features a link to a video roundup you won’t want to miss.

*The Center for Digital Government is part of e.Republic, parent company of Techwire.