Unilever Food Solutions’ Chef of the Year 2012 was announced at a glittering cocktail function on Friday evening, following the most exciting final cook-off of the year. After hours of heated head-to-head cooking where the cream of the crop of South Africa’s up-and-coming chefs battled it out in a mystery basket contest at the SA Chefs Association premises in Auckland Park, it was Tiaan Langenegger who walked away victorious in the Senior category and Liezl Bruce in the Junior category.
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The food service industry needs to face up to its responsibilities in tackling the global obesity epidemic, according to a new report launched today by Unilever Food Solutions. With one billion overweight adults and a staggering 300 million cases of obesity worldwide, this figure will rise to 1.5 billion by 2015* unless all parties, including the food service industry, take action now.
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A truly inspired competition from Unilever Food Solutions has seen young chefs from all over South Africa striving to impress judges with their personal ‘Sauce of Inspiration’ stories about what inspired them towards a profession as a chef and their dreams for the future. The prize is R20 000 towards helping the winner achieve his or her culinary dreams.
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Culinary Team South Africa has a busy year ahead in its Olympic year and it started with the announcement of the Senior and Junior Team Captains. These National Teams and their Captains are the official squad, which will represent South Africa in the Culinary Olympics early in October in Erfurt, Germany. This Green and Gold Team is currently ranked in 10th place in the world.
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The winner of the prestigious Unilever By Invitation Only Masters 2012 competition was announced at a gala banquet last night (17 April) after a final head-to-head cook-off battle among five of South Africa’s top chefs at the SA Chefs Association premises at the University of Johannesburg. The winner is Dion Vengatass, from the Mount Nelson in Cape Town – the youngest competitor amongst four veteran chefs, who walked off with the grand prize of R40 000.
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