Harvest Fine Foods are excited to announce that the Inter College Culinary Challenge 2023 will be taking place at City College Southampton on Tuesday 20th June. The Day starts at 9am with registration, followed with the 6 heats, then the presentations will start at 2.30pm. Over 70 students from 5 different colleges in the South. ( City College Southampton, Fareham College City of Portsmouth College, Basingstoke College of Technology, Eastleigh College ) will participate in various heats which include Knife Skills, Table Lay Up, Pasta Making, Mystery Box Category (this is very exciting as Students will be given a box of mystery ingredients which will contain core items to use) a larder table will also be provided which will consist of basic ingredients such as flour, sugars, vinegars, breadcrumbs etc.) and much more.. There are some great sponsors including Harvest, Essential Cuisine, Gallo & Koppert Cress. The sponsors are kindly providing some of the ingredients required for the competition.
The judging panel includes Andy Mackenzie – Exclusive Hotels, Alan Humphries – Exclusive Hotels, Frank Pontais – Koppert Cress, Phil Clark – Harvest Fine Foods, Robin Dudley – Essential Cuisine, Gary Kilminster – Essential Cuisine, Jade Clark – Fullers, Gary Kilminster Essential Cuisine
The Front of House judging panel are Incognito – Mocktail class, Patina – Novotel, FB manager Montagu Arms
Certificates and medals will be presented at the end of the competition by Phil Clark, Development Chef at Harvest Fine Foods.
Phil Clark, Development Chef for Harvest stated that “As a company, we want to encourage the students to enjoy the food, enjoy the cooking and gain as much experience as they can before they go out to the industry. The students are the future chefs, future buyers, and we want to help encourage more young people into the industry”.
Essential Cuisine’s team of passionate chefs dedicate time to work with catering students up and down the Country, passing on valuable culinary knowledge and skills. Our aim is to bring the working kitchen to life and make it something to aspire to be a part of.
Essential Cuisine are proud to partner with Harvest and City College Southampton to create and organise the ‘Inter College Culinary Challenge’.
Southwest Business Development Manager for Essential Cuisine and multi gold medal winner, Gary Kilminster commented “I believe culinary competitions are a massive part of any young chefs learning curve, they put the students under pressure, make them think outside of the box which they wouldn’t normally do within their studies & can help build confidence. To put yourself above the parapet and have your dishes scrutinised by professional experienced chefs shows determination and ambition, and I would like to say a massive well done on behalf of Essential Cuisine and personally to all the competitors and wish them all the very best on the day”.
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