The search is now well underway for the LACA School Chef of the Year 2015. School food providers across Britain are setting their sights on one of their employees becoming the country’s next best education catering chef.
Over 60 registrations were received for this year’s event and the initial 2015 judging stage has now been completed. The contestants who have successfully qualified from this first stage now go through to the live regional heats to be held around Britain between January-March 2015. The National Final is scheduled for May 2015.
With the competition rules requiring recipes to reflect the global influences on school meals and the ethnic and cultural mix of a school’s pupil population, competition sponsor, MAGGI at Nestlé Professional has included an extensive selection of its products in the competition ingredients list to help contestants enhance the creativity of their menus.
Carrieanne Bishop, LACA National Chair, commented, “This has been a monumental and historic year for school meals. The Government has set out a clear vision which places quality at the heart of successful school meals. Also, its introduction of Universal Free School Meals is, at last, a real acknowledgement of the pivotal role school meals can play in laying the foundations for children’s future eating habits and their long term health.
'The LACA School Chef of the Year competition allows us the opportunity to demonstrate both the professional skills of today’s school chefs and the excellent meals they prepare every single day in schools across the land.'
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