Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, left, and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., right, congratulate fellow Kansan Michael Torrey on the 10th anniversary of establishing his firm. (Djenno Bacvic Photography)

Michael Torrey Associates celebrated 10 years in business last Wednesday with a party on the undeveloped top floor of 440 First Street N.W. in Washington.

The consulting firm serves agricultural and food organizations.

Members of Congress, clients, congressional staff and reporters enjoyed food prepared by Richard Rosendale, a certified master chef who has started the Rosendale Collective, a firm offering catering, private dining and consulting services as well as cooking classes.



Danny Sterling, the sous chef in the Rosendale Collective, serves a plate of “edible dirt” to Carlene Bahler, president of JT&A, Inc., a communications firm. (Jerry Hagstrom/The Hagstrom Report)


Chef Richard Rosendale serves prosciutto to Jon Hixson of Cargill in the midst of Kansas sunflowers. (Jerry Hagstrom/The Hagstrom Report)