“Hound & Garden”
Premiering September 25, 2006
On September 25, 2006, Dog Day Afternoons Country Day Prep, the country’s most exclusive and prestigious academic institution for dogs, launches Hound & Garden, a new daily TV series. The show will reveal why Country Day Prep leads the pack in unleashing the power of the canine intellect and cultivating the well-rounded dog.
Hound & Garden will be set on the bucolic Country Day Prep campus, and will feature the academy’s very own instructors and students as they live, learn, and explore the finer things in life. Hound & Garden will highlight the Country Day Prep student as a breed apart, a figure who combines superior intelligence, social savoir-faire, and good fashion sense in the dogged pursuit of excellence.
Each installment of Hound & Garden will cover doggie news, trend reports, and previews of the latest gadgets for your pets, as well as simple cooking lessons and arts-and-crafts projects expressly for dogs (and the people who love them). Celebrating the ethic of “work hard, play hard,” Hound & Garden will also provide an intimate glimpse of our campus life: the traditions, the academics, the drama, and the challenge our students face in such a rigorous program. “We want the rest of the world to understand what attending the country’s only prep school for dogs is all about,” says Jeff Walker, Country Day Prep’s Headmaster and Co-Founder. “For non-Bostonians and those who couldn’t meet our school’s competitive admissions standards, Hound & Garden connects your dog with Country Day Prep’s Satellite Learning Program.”
Both a paws-on(line) education for the complete dog, and an enticing peek into the lifestyles of the rich and canine, Hound & Garden is guaranteed to raise your dog’s IQ and get your tail wagging.
Featured Chef
This year, a new addition to our community is already making important contributions to Country Day life. Chef Wheeler E.B. Lynch, whom we met on a recent jaunt across the pond, began his career serving up shepherd’s pie, scones, and tea at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. His homemade currant scones were “discovered” by former royal’s dog, who was nosing around the club grounds one day while the royal hit a few tennis balls. Wheeler was subsequently hired to cater to the sweet tooth of both her dog and herself.
Wheeler E.B. Lynch, Dog Day Afternoons’s new pastry chef, hails from Westport, Connecticut, the sylvan home of America’s most attractive squash players. He first learned the fine art of the pastry while preparing at the George School(’95), and he perfected it at Cambridge (’99), where his scrumptious baked specialties earned him respect on the Quad for being truly upper crust.
Mr. Lynch, a longtime member of the Fair Oaks Country Club, currently divides his time between Boston’s Beacon Hill and Sanibel, Florida.
His pastry philosophy? “I’d rather my dogs be hungry than sorry.”
