ACF Culinary Team USA Takes Home Gold
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., November 23, 2005 – The American Culinary Federation (ACF) Culinary Team USA won a gold medal in the cold-food competition and a gold medal in the hot-food competition at the Salon Culinaire Mondial 2005 in Basel, Switzerland, November 19-23, 2005. The team’s combined scores led to a second-place finish overall in cold-food.
The Swiss culinary competition, which occurs once every six years, is one of the most important international culinary-arts competitions for national teams of chefs. This year, the event features teams from Canada, Czechia, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, Wales and the United States.
ACF Culinary Team USA is the official representative team of the United States in major international culinary competitions. The ACF Culinary Team USA competing at Basel boasts three certified master chefs, of which there are only 60 in the nation: team captain Edward G. Leonard, CMC, AAC, executive chef of Westchester Country Club, Rye, N.Y.; Joachim Buchner, CMC, executive chef of Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md.; and Russell Scott, CMC, executive chef, Isleworth Country Club, Windermere, Fla. Other team members include U.S.A.’s Chef of the Year™ 2005 Richard Rosendale, CC, sous chef at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; Patricia Nash, pastry chef at Westchester Country Club, Rye, N.Y; and Jamie Keating, CCC, executive chef at Milliken & Company and chef/owner of Gourmet Events in LaGrange, Ga.
Sponsors of ACF Culinary Team USA are Unilever Foodsolutions, Chef Revival, Fortessa, Kraft Foodservice, Tyson Foods, Westchester Country Club, Chef’s Hat and Club Managers Association of America.
The American Culinary Federation, Inc. (ACF), established in 1929, is the premier professional organization for culinarians in America. With nearly 18,000 members and 240 chapters nationwide, ACF offers educational resources, training, professional certification, apprenticeship and accreditation programs. In addition, ACF holds the presidium for the World Association of Cooks Societies (WACS), the international network of chefs associations, with more than eight million members globally. For more information, please visit www.acfchefs.org.
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