{"id":15530,"date":"2014-02-13T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2014-02-13T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:47:11","slug":"culinary-olympiad-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/culinary-olympiad-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Culinary Olympiad 2014 to Take Place February 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can student chefs from the Pearson School of Culinary Arts win the sixth regional championship in a row?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pressure is on for two student chefs at the Pearson School of Culinary Arts on George Street in LaSalle. In less than two weeks they\u2019ll defend the honour of their school and their teacher in a regional culinary Olympiad. To add to their pressure, students from all five of Montreal\u2019s chef schools are competing for the first time ever and the event itself will take place on home turf.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur school sent a candidate to the provincials for the last five competitions,\u201d says Pierre Auclair, a pedagogical consultant with the Lester B. Pearson School Board who represents their culinary school on the regional organizing team. \u201cWe have a teacher\u2014Nicolas Robineau-Roberge\u2014who has gone to Quebec to coach our student chef for three competitions in a row. He\u2019s really in a zone now getting his students ready. It\u2019s so competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition is a little bit like Iron Chef or Top Chef, except there won\u2019t be cameras or an audience in attendance.<\/p>\n

All of the student chefs earned their way in to these regional championships by winning similar competitions within their own schools. The Pearson one took place last December.<\/p>\n

This year seems more competitive than usual though because it\u2019s the first year that all of Montreal\u2019s culinary schools are participating. Student chefs from l\u2019\u00c9cole H\u00f4teli\u00e8re de Montr\u00e9al<\/i>\u00a0Calixa-Lavall\u00e9e<\/a>, St. Pius X Culinary Institute<\/a>, l\u2019Institut de tourisme et d\u2019h\u00f4tellerie du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>, l\u2019\u00c9cole des m\u00e9tiers de la restauration et de l\u2019H\u00f4tellerie<\/a><\/i>, and the Pearson School of Culinary Arts<\/a> will compete for the regional championship.<\/p>\n

Unlike the television versions, student chefs and their coach\/teachers already know which ingredients they\u2019ll have to cook. They\u2019ll be expected to prepare King Quail in an appetizer; Fluke flat fish in an entr\u00e9e and chocolate mousse for dessert.<\/p>\n

Most of them have spent hours working with those ingredients by now, but the two competitors from Pearson certainly have.<\/p>\n

Their teacher\/coach Robineau-Roberge has had them \u201cperforming intervals\u201d every day, and he\u2019ll continue working with them right up until the big day, February 19.<\/p>\n

He even stayed at Pearson until 10:30 last night putting his student competitors through an entire competition after class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d much rather put them through the pain and have them hate me now so they can have fun competing that day,\u201d said Robineau-Roberge. \u201cIt\u2019s just like preparing for a running race or a bike race. You try to make sure that they do everything over and over again until they can do everything like robots\u2014creative robots. They have to be able to keep their cool and come up with new strategies when something goes wrong. I\u2019ve seen students cry at this competition when they weren\u2019t prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten chefs, including Foodlab chef Seth Gabrielse and L’Eau \u00e0 la Bouche chef Anne Desjardins, will judge student skills at deboning the poultry, filleting the fish, maintaining a healthy clean workspace, limiting waste and preparing tasty dishes.<\/p>\n

The competition begins at 8:30 in the morning. The student chefs must serve their appetizers at 1:30, their main dish at 2 p.m. and desert at 2:30 p.m. They\u2019ll lose one point per minute per judge for lateness.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Montreal\u2019s winning student chef will be crowned at a cocktail with industry insiders and food sponsors, including Pierre en Gros, which is supplying the Fluke fish.<\/p>\n

For one really talented student chef, this will be the second of five similar competitions.<\/p>\n

The winner of this regional competition faces off against the winners from all the culinary schools in Quebec. That winner will represent the province at a Canada-wide version later this year.<\/p>\n

Assuming that the winning Canadian student chef is still under the age of 22 years old, he or she will go to S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil to participate the 43rd<\/sup>\u00a0WorldSkills Competition (http:\/\/www.worldskills.org\/<\/a>) next summer.<\/p>\n

The pressure will be really on if that happens. Canada won the last Worldskills competition in 2012 too. You can hear champion Albertan chef Peter Keith talking about his win at: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/Shows\/ID\/2309810404\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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