Electrolux Appetite for Excellence

Electrolux

Young Chef of the Year

Young Waiter of the Year

Young Restaurateur of the Year

All three category winners experience unique and career changing opportunities through overseas travel; inspirational work experiences; national publicity; and, mentoring.

Applications are now open for career focused young chefs, aged 30 and under, currently residing in Australia and working full-time in the restaurant industry.  Chefs are invited to submit a seasonal winter menu and recipes comprising of one canapé, entree, main, and dessert.  All entries are assess by a judging panes comprising of Australia’s leading chefs and restaurants.  Two finalists are chosen from each state and are flown to Sydney to participate in the state final cook-off.

For more information chick here

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Les Toques Blanches

  Les Toques Blanches Inc.

2009 Culinary Delights Exhibition
Cairns Central Shopping Centre – 19th 20th & 21st May 2009

The 2009 Annual Culinary Arts display  hosted by the Les Toques Blanches Inc,  at Cairns Central Shopping Centre is sure to be a crowd pleaser, showcasing the culinary skills of the chefs of the region.

The 3 day activities will be action packed with cooking competitions from our apprentice chefs and bakers, cooking demonstrations of pasta and sushi, seafood, meats and chocolates, a schools cooking competition for second year vocational education students and a live celebrity chef cook off where  four local celebrities will cook off against one another accompanied each with an apprentice/chef and provided with a mystery box of ingredients.

The event is to promote Chefing as an exciting career path and foster the art of culinary skills in the community at large.

For further information contact Sue-Ann Tillett, Secretariat of Les Toques Blanches on 07 4046 4000
or email sue-ann.tillett@skill360.com.au

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Chefs New Products

Frozen Pineapple and Mango

Ivycore Pty Ltd is a local fruit processing company on the Tablelands west of Mareeba.  They have a range of products available for chefs

500gms of frozen mango and sweet pineapple are ideal for catering purposes at a reasonable price

To check out the product look for the Ivycore stand at the Farmgate Markets every Saturday at The Pier 7:30am – 2:00pm

For further information contact

Jose Moreno
Manager
Ivycove Pty Ltd
Box 847 Mareeba 4880
Ph 07 40 932 121
Mob 0417 794 786

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2009 Worlds Best Restaurants Announced

The S.Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants.
20th April 2009

Restaurant Magazine announces the list of The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2009.

Ferran Adrià holds on to number one spot whilst witnessing a host of young talent racing up the list
For the fourth year in a row Ferran Adrià has topped a worldwide poll of 806 chefs, critics and other industry experts, whilst Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck retains second place. Below these perennial favourites however it’s all change in the eighth annual listing of The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

Australia’s Tetsuya  although slipped 8 places remains high on the list at 17 and also won the Best Restaurant in Australasia.  2009 sees more new talent making its mark on the list than in previous years. Such rising stars and new entries include Quay in Australia at 46th position.

Compassionate food lovers across the globe can secure a reservation at many of the restaurants on the list by bidding on e-Bay for a meal, with all proceeds going to humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger, official charity partner of the 2009 awards. Bidding begins 21st April. go to ebay

A restaurant’s ranking on the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is decided purely on the votes of a large panel of well respected international judges collectively called the Nespresso World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy. The Academy comprises of 806 chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and restaurant critics, a third of whom did not vote in the previous year.

The Top 20 of the list

 For the full story and list go to The Worlds 50 Best

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