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NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Derek DeVries, (616) 234-3499
GRCC ANNOUNCES SECOND “NATIONS CUP”
INTERNATIONAL CULINARY STUDENT COMPETITION
October 17, 2007 Grand Rapids, MI – Grand Rapids Community College is proud to announce the second annual “Nations Cup” international culinary student competition, slated for October 18-19 and featuring six teams hailing from Barbados, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, the United States, and the defending champions, Team Chile.
The teams (consisting of two students and a coach) will compete for three full days in food categories including appetizers, salads, poultry, fish, shellfish, meat and game. Similar to the hit show “Iron Chef,” the competition format is a mystery box; the box contains two mystery ingredients which the teams have to use highlighting them on four finished plates of food within a given timeframe.
Competition will culminate in a spectacular banquet finale in which 100 guests will be treated to a six-course meal, with each course having been created by a different team and prepared in a style typical to that team’s native country.
“This competition is about the culinary education and cultural education of our students through interaction with peers form other nations,” explains GRCC Chef/Professor Angus Campbell who serves as competition chairman. “It is an exciting and nerve-racking time for these young chefs, but the friendships that are built, the confidence gained, and the medals won will last for a lifetime. Hands-on, intercultural opportunities like this are what GRCC’s Hospitality Education program are built on.”
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