WA CHEF DUO CROWNED NATIONAL WINNERS - 2ND YEAR IN A ROW
WA duo Shane Middleton and Cameron Wetton have triumphed in the 2010
Nestlé Golden Chefs Hat Award.
Team WA were announced National Winners last night at an exclusive
Industry awards dinner at The Sebel Albert Park Melbourne.
In a first for the national young chefs competition, Shane and Cameron
Are the only teams ever to have won two years consecutively
Shane (20) and Cameron (21), both chefs at Perth Convention Centre,
beat seven other finalist teams from around Australia, achieving one
silver and two gold medals for culinary excellence.
The nation’s best and brightest young chefs cooked their way into the
grand final cook-off challenge (held at William Angliss Institute of
TAFE on Tuesday 14 September) where they had to create a three-course
meal to impress the professional judging panel.
The talented two’s winning menu included an entrée of citrus butter
baked barramundi with beetroot puree and barramundi crackle, yabby and
barramundi tortellini, and yabby and barramundi mousseline wrapped in
leek and pickled beetroot. Their gold medal winning dessert was a dark
chocolate ganache tart with a mandarin parfait and crushed caramel
vanilla marshmallow, mandarin compote and kiwi fruit coulis.
“Shane and Cameron delivered an exceptional menu, executed to the
highest standard. They are truly deserving of the top spot and, in
winning this prestigious competition for the second year in a row,
have established themselves as rising stars of the culinary world,”
says Competition Director, Deb Foreman from the Australian Culinary Federation.
She adds: “We applaud all eight finalist teams for making it as far as
they did in the competition. Shane and Cameron were up against some
very talented young chefs. The standard at this year’s national final
exceeded all expectations – it was truly the best yet”.
The Perth based chefs have their sights set on travel and ultimately
want to run their own restaurant.
As recipients of the 2010 Nestlé Golden Chefs Hat Award, Shane and
Cameron will enjoy a roundtrip to Chicago USA in May 2011, where they
will carry out work experience at Charlie Trotter’s, one of the
world’s finest and top rated restaurants, to get a hands-on insight
into innovation and excellence in the culinary arts. They will then
attend the largest global gathering of restaurant and foodservice
professionals, at the National Restaurant Association Show – Shane and
Cameron will get to see the big-name chefs of the world in action and
discover all the latest innovations in the industry.
To top off the once in a lifetime culinary journey, they will also get
to know the ins and outs of the foodservice industry with a tour and
training at Sysco, North America’s leading foodservice marketer and distributor.
Competing in the Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award gives young chefs
under 25 the opportunity to become recognised as the best up and coming apprentices in the industry by putting their cooking skills to the test.
The Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award is the longest running chef’s
competition in Australia and is dedicated to the development of junior
and apprentice chefs.
http://www.acfnsw.com.au/videos
