Category: Education
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Are you top of the class?
Educating children to eat healthy school meals Delivering tasty, appealing food on a tight budget, which adheres to School Food Plan requirements, is a tough job. It’s a proven fact that good nutrition can help academic performance – and educating children about healthy eating will undoubtedly help reduce obesity – so what role can school caterers…
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Melting Pot – Dishy ideas for dinky diners
According to ‘State of the Nation – What children in the UK are eating’, 86% of parents worry about how their child eats and 26% want to see restaurants offering more fruit and veg on children’s menus. With 38% of parents saying they eat out with their children at least once a week, is it…
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Tracy is top of the class
A school cook from West Yorkshire has scooped a coveted national title. Tracy Healy has been named LACA School Chef of the Year 2017 by a panel of judges at the national final, which was held at Stratford upon Avon College, Warwickshire. The annual competition is organised annually by LACA (Lead Association for Catering in…
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2017 Student Chef Challenge Winning Team’s Chef Lecturer urges colleges to get involved!
A triumphant trio of college students and their chef lecturer are celebrating after winning the coveted Country Range Student Chef Challenge title. Iona Duncan, Agnieska Dudko and Katarazyna Hospodarewska from Ayrshire College beat off all of the competition to win the award after a gripping live theatre final at ScotHot in Glasgow. Their proud chef…
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Rising to the Student Chef Challenge!
The Country Range Student Chef Challenge is a major event on the competition calendar for catering colleges across the UK. It is run in association with the Craft Guild of Chefs and judged to professional competition standards. Eight teams secured a place in the 2017 final after an initial strict paper judging followed by four…
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Advice from the Experts – Beef up your offering with mini joints
How to maximise your profits during Great British Beef Week By Hugh Judd, senior foodservice manager, AHDB Beef & Lamb The profit potential of beef is greater than ever. It’s the only protein group growing across all foodservice sectors, and AHDB’s category report shows that beef accounts for 41% of meat on menus. Our research…
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“Streets Ahead” Melting Pot
Word on the street is that street food rules, so how can these trends be adapted to suit mainstream menus? According to Horizons’ Menu Trends Report, Mexican street food is now an established trend with ‘New Wave Americana’ and Korean cuisine following hotly on its heels. Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking are also gaining…
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Ayrshire College Crowned Country Range Student Chef Challenge Champions 2017
After a gripping live theatre final at ScotHot 2017 on the 15th March, Iona Duncan, Agnieska Dudko and Katarazyna Hospodarewska from Ayrshire College have been crowned Country Range Student Chef Challenge champions of 2017. Competing against college teams from around the UK including Blackpool and Fylde College, City College Norwich, City of Liverpool College, Glasgow Clyde College, Henley College, Hopwood…
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MasterChef winner champions college education
After scooping the coveted MasterChef: the Professionals title at the end of last year, many people might have expected Gary Maclean to quit his college job and open his own restaurant. But the City of Glasgow College lecturer is adamant this won’t be the case. He is a staunch advocate for the UK’s education system…
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School Chef of the Year finalists announced
The 10- strong line up of school chefs who will come face to face on March 2 to compete for the LACA School Chef of the Year 2017 national title, have been unveiled. The 2017 national final will be held at Stratford upon Avon College and is expected to be a fiercely fought cook-off. For the…