Students from Enderun Colleges once again took home several awards at the much-awaited Chefs on Parade held in the SMX Convention Center last Feb. 28-March 3.
The team, comprised of students from the Ducasse Institute Philippines at Enderun Colleges, took home two diploma awards, a silver and two bronze medals.
Chefs on Parade is a four-day culinary extravaganza hosted by the Hotel and Restaurant Association of the Philippines (HRAP) with exhibitions, cooking demonstrations and food competitions which aims to bring together and develop the talent of amateur and professional chefs.
“Our dishes were simple, but through a solid team effort and all our ideas combined, we managed to pull it off,” explains Noel Mauricio who, along with Safa Rodas, placed highest in the Set Menu Healthy Lifestyle category.
Teammates Calvin Warren Cu and Ryan Dela Vega bagged the silver medal in the Set Menu Traditional Filipino. Enderun took home two bronze medals in the categories Culinary Trivia represented by Sabrina Daez, Tiffany Santos and Sang Hyun Lee; and Set Menu Continental with Chester Tsai, Monica Yang and Noel Mauricio.
Yna Zuñiga and Therese Villanueva also got diploma awards for Plated Desserts category.
“I’m very proud of the Enderun students who competed this weekend and the dishes that they’ve created,” says chef Jérôme Lacressonnière, instructor and consultant chef for Ducasse Education.
To aspiring chefs, he says, “Don’t be afraid to repeat the same gestures over and over again every day in order to improve, and until you fully master them. Talent only comes with practice and repetition.”
Enderun is a four-year undergraduate college that offers a full range of bachelor’s degree and non-degree courses in the fields of international hospitality management and business administration.