Research Chef Association- Student Competition Part II

Today was the Annual Luncheon at the RCA where various scholarship winners and various competition winners are announced.  For the Student Culinology Competition the JWU Student Team placed 2nd in the competition:  Great Job Team...

Here are the first second and third place winners- Great job done by all teams- They are the future of our industry. First place went to Southern Minnesota State University and third to University of Guelph.

Yesterday was the Culinology Expo where the suppliers who shape the R&D world show their products and provide many tasty offerings.  Several of the suppliers, their employees and the attendees to the show are JWU graduates.  Here are just a few:

Finally for this posting, my final posting from Atlanta GA.  Enjoy the pictures of Centennial Olympic Park.  I had the pleasure of walking through the park many times here in Atlanta.  Those of have read my earlier post when I was in Singapore, may remember my reference to parsley planted in a flower bed as my point of reference at the MRT station.  Here in Atlanta parsley is in many of the flower beds.. who knew, Parsley was the hot new trend in outdoor floral displays.

If I attend the RCA show next year, here is where I will be... Until we meet again....

Research Chef Association- Student Competition

Atlanta Georgia: Research Chef Association Annual Conference Culinology Expo

Starting shortly after 6:00 a.m. the JWU student Culinology Team started there competition.  They had until 8:00 a.m. to prepare and present their proposed Southern Dessert Concept Featuring Peaches for a Family-Style Restaurant.  The teams proposal was a  shelf stable peach jellyroll. called the "Peach de Resistance" They are competing against 5 other teams, Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, Southern Minnesota State University, University of Guelph and the University of Minnesota.

Finalist teams will commercialize and ship their frozen dessert to the competition site in Atlanta.  On the day of the competition, teams will prepare their fresh, gold standard menu item.  In a Culinology Match Test, competition judges will compare each teams plated, commercialized dessert against their corresponding freshly prepared dessert against such criteria as ingredient composition/authenticity, professionalism, technical skill, safety and sanitation and overall similarity to the gold standard.  The competition winner will be announced at the Annual Lunch on March 5th.

The following is the product description and  presentation:

The following is the gold standard recipe they created today for the competition.

I will keep you posted on the outcome when the winner is announced on Saturday.

More pictures of the sights of Atlanta and the RCA in my next update.

Have a great day......

RCA Annual Conference & Culinology Expo | Research Chefs Association

 

RCA Annual Conference & Culinology Expo | Research Chefs Association

Next stop for the Nomadic Chef will be in Atlanta on Wednesday March 2nd for the Research Chef Association Annual Conference.

Until then, I need to shake off this jet lag, get caught up at work, return about 200 emails, and I don’t know yet how many phone calls.  But I am looking forward to getting back in the office and meeting with JWU students again. 

I find it hard to believe the winter term is almost over, spring break, and the spring term already, next thing you know student GRADUATION!!!!

But Spring term also means  Spring Expo

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