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Announcements

PFG Student Culinary Competition

Friday, March 15, 2013
Culinary Institute of St. Louis at Hickey College

Three culinary programs in the St. Louis area sent teams to the Culinary Institute of St. Louis at Hickey College on Friday, March 15 to compete in the 4th annual Performance Foodservice Student Culinary Challenge 2013. The 5 person teams competed in two phases of competition:

• An 80 minute relay-style skills competition
• A 90 minute hot-food cooking competition featuring a fish starter, salad, an Escoffier entree, and a dessert

A big, big thanks goes to Performance Foodservice Middendorf and American Roland for gathering the scholarship funds for the schools!

Special Thanks to:

• Performance Foodservice- Middendorf
• Sam Reynolds
• Mike Martin
• Administration, Faculty, Staff, and Students of Culinary Institute of St. Louis at Hickey College
• Chris Desens
• Casey Shiller
• Brian Hardy

Judges:

• J. Kevin Storm, CEC, CCA, AAC
• Derek Spendlove, CEPC, CCE, AAC
• Anthony Haacke, CEC

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Missouri State Junior Hot Food Team Finals

Saturday, March 16, 2013
Culinary Institute of St. Louis at Hickey College

Historically, Missouri has had only 1 Junior Hot Foods Team that has wanted to compete at the annual ACF Central Region Conference competitions, namely our own chapter's team. This year, two culinary schools within the state have wanted the opportunity to represent Missouri. Therefore, a state-wide competition was needed to determine who would represent Missouri. Other states, such as Illinois, have used a similar competition to determine their representatitve.

Consequently, a committee composed of representatives of the interested schools and Chefs de Cuisine worked to define the parameters for such a competition. The competition will rotate among the localities of the participating schools over the coming years.

We welcome the increased interest in student/junior hot food team competitions. It can only serve to improve the quality of all the teams and their resopective institutions.

The winner of this year's competition will represent Missouri at the ACF Central Region Conference competition to be held in Little Rock, April 28th through May 1st.

Judges:

• J. Kevin Storm, CEC, CCA, AAC
• Aidan Murphy, CMC, AAC
• Derek Spendlove, CEPC, CCE, AAC
• Anthony Haacke, CEC

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Chefs de Cuisine Spring Competition and Certification

Saturday and Sunday, March 16 & 17, 2013
Culinary Institute of St. Louis at Hickey College

Student K Competition
Joey Lemoine St. Louis Community College Forest Park	Bronze

Professional K Competition
Tim Leonhardi St. Louis Country Club	Silver
Bruce Piatek II Le Cordon Bleu St. Louis	Bronze

Judges:

• Aidan Murphy, CMC, AAC
• Chris Desens, CEC, CCA, AAC
• Anthony Haacke, CEC

Certification Testing
	Chris Kramer	CEC
	Heather Roehl	CWPC
	Geoff Kohl	CSC
	Bobby Trampier	CSC
	Michael Honeywell	CPC

Certification Evaluators:

• Chris Desens, CEC, CCA, AAC
• Anthony Haacke, CEC
• Susie Judy, CEPC

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