Ultimate Chef America Event Seeks to Crown Top Chef for Senior Taste Buds
Brookdale Senior Living®, the nation’s largest provider of senior living and related services for seniors, will crown America’s top chef for seniors in a series of nationwide cooking competitions by its professional chefs. Ultimate Chef America, a culinary competition among Brookdale chefs, is a production of the Company’s Culinary Arts Institute (CAI) to identify and crown the best of the best.
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Brookdale’s Culinary Arts Institute is a professional development program designed to enhance the food preparation and presentation skills of the Company’s professional chefs, who collectively prepare some 40 million meals per year for the Company’s 52,000 residents and their guests.
“This will be an intense competition among our outstanding chefs for the honor of being crowned as Ultimate Chef America,” said Joska Hajdu, Senior Vice President of Dining Services for Brookdale, himself an executive chef.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that the creativity, ability, and talent of our Dining Services associates will be showcased during this unique competition,” said Hajdu. But Ultimate Chef America promises to be much more grandiose that a cooking competition, according to Hajdu. Attendees will be able to participate in various educational programs, including a seminar featuring Brookdale’s Medical Director, Dr. Kevin O’Neil, on the topic of “Food for the Soul,” a wine tasting class featuring local wineries, and a class presented by the Culinary Arts Institute at Brookdale: The Art of Seasoning.
In addition, a silent auction will be featured at the event which benefits the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, an organization that elevates the national consciousness of care giving and fosters a culture of healthy caregivers impacted by chronic illness through programming, universal access to resources, and behavioral research.
The Ultimate Chef culinary competition is produced by the Culinary Arts Institute at Brookdale. The dining and culinary arts team integrates hands-on training and classroom instructional materials that impart new food preparation skills and cutting edge techniques to enhance Brookdale residents’ dining experiences.
For more information about Ultimate Chef America log onto the event Web page at: www.ultimatechefamerica.com
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