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“This
competition has been a delicious blast”… Women
Chefs Rise to the Challenge and Create Award-Winning Recipes
Using Olivado
Avocado Oils Olivado
Natural Nutrition and Women Chefs & Restaurateurs announce
Winners Of
the 2007 Chef Quest Competition And the winner is.....click here In
a first-of-its kind recipe challenge, three professional women
chefs have proven once again that a women’s place is
definitely in the kitchen. Olivado Natural Nutrition and Women
Chef’s & Restaurateurs (WCR) announce the winners of the
“2007 Olivado Avocado Oil
Chef Quest: Celebrating Women Chefs”
competition. Winners
were selected from three recipe categories: Meat/Poultry,
Seafood, and Vegetables. The
winners are:
Angie Armenise from the Pinelli Marra
Restaurant Group in
“Olivado Commends Sea Bass…Fresca Style” -
SEAFOOD
Ellie Basch from Everyday Gourmet, LLC, in
“Olivado Citrus Salad” - VEGETABLES Charlotte Fekete from the Fire & Flavor Grilling Company in Athens, GA, for her "East
West Steak with Jalapeno Slaw "–
MEAT/POULTRY The
three winners and their guests will be flown to Olivado
choose to partner with Women Chefs & Restaurateurs because
they believe in the organization’s mission: the education and advancement of women in the restaurant industry and
the betterment of the industry as a whole.
More than 50 percent of the food service industry
workforce is women, yet few reach the upper echelons of their
profession. Olivado
is committed to helping change that, which is why they
developed this competition with WCR. Chris Nathan, founder and
managing partner of Olivado, felt that the competition, open
only to WCR members, would help shine the spotlight on the
talent of women chefs in the U.S. Olivado challenged these
talented women to create health-inspired recipes using
Olivado’s heart-healthy, cold-pressed avocado oil. All
of the chefs participating in the competition loved working
with this relatively new product in the Three
of the culinary industry’s most respected women chefs Helene
Kennan, Executive Chef for Bon Appetit at the Getty Center in
Los Angeles, and president of WCR, Kersti Bowser, TV chef and
owner of Gourmet Butterfly Media, and Eve Felder, associate
dean for culinary studies at the Culinary Institute of America
in Hyde Park, New York, sorted through the dozens of entries
and narrowed the field to six final recipes. Under the
watchful eye of Dean Eve Felder seven of her women students
prepped the six final recipes on May 5th at the
school’s “We
were anxious to try the six recipes,” said Felder, adding,
“There were so many innovative recipes it was hard to choose
the winners.” Helene
Kennan explains that women chefs have a unique way of creating
new dishes using all of their senses, not just the obvious
sense of taste to create dishes that look and smell as
wonderful as they taste. WCR’s partnership with Olivado for
this unique cooking challenge provided a great stage to show
for how women create. Oil is an essential ingredient in
cooking and Olivado’s product has a unique flavor profile
and cooking properties that easily lends itself to a variety
of uses. The innovative entries and the winning recipes proved
this to be true. Olivado
Natural Nutrition pioneered the avocado oil production process
by creating the first cold pressed extra virgin avocado oil to
become today’s leading international brand. Olivado’s
avocado oil is one of the heart-healthiest cooking oils
available today. Its light flavor and color enhances the taste
of food, and its high smoke point makes it ideal for a variety
of cooking methods. ANGIE ARMENISE – is the executive chef the Pinelli Marra Restaurant Group in ELLIE BASCH - The chef and owner of Everyday Gourmet, a catering company,
Ellie comes from a long line of cooks; her grandmother owned a
restaurant and her mother is a caterer in Ellie
came to the After building Everyday Gourmet for four years, Ellie expanded her
business to indulge her other passion, teaching. She became
the coordinator of a non-profit organization's culinary
training program. As
the manager of New Visions, New Ventures' Breadwinners
Program, Ellie helps low income women learn the business and
food industry fundamentals needed to start their own food
businesses. CHARLOTTE
FEKETE - Now
a recent graduate of the ABOUT OLIVADO NATURAL NUTRITION Olivado
Natural Nutrition is
based at Kerikeri in the beautiful ABOUT WOMEN CHEFS & RESTAURATUERS (WCR) More
than 50 percent of the food service industry workforce is
women, yet few reach the upper echelons of their profession.
The mission of Women Chefs & Restaurateurs is to promote
the education and advancement of women in the restaurant
industry and the betterment of the industry as a whole. WCR
offers career-enhancing scholarship and internship
opportunities for both beginning and experienced culinary
professionals. Candidates can apply for tuition credit to
enter premier culinary programs or for the opportunity to
study in the kitchens of the world’s most talented chefs.
To learn more go to www.WomenChefs.org. FOR
MORE INFORMATION OR TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WINNING
CHEFS, OR OLIVADO, CONTACT: Trina
Kaye The
Trina Kaye Organization 310-915-0970
Members Only: to purchase Olivado Avocado
Oil click
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