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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
Borough Wide
Bon appetit!
Three hot-cross buns and as many blue medals to the city high school winners of the Careers through Culinary Arts Program scholarship competition.
Emily Rojas of East Williamsburg, a student at Long Island City High School, received a full tuition scholarship to Johnson and Wales University. Maurice Joiner from Bedford-Stuyvesant, who attends William E. Grady High School, received a $3,000 scholarship. And Brownsville resident Chynna Gonzalez, a student at the High School of Hospitality Management in Manhattan, won a full tuition scholarship towards an associate degree, in addition to a CIA Community College stipend.
The 24 finalists competed against the clock on March 20 at the Institute of Culinary Education. The competition simulated the intensity of a four-star restaurant kitchen, and called for students to prepare savory and sweet selections from memory in two hours. Each competitor cooked a two-course French meal — Sûpreme Poulet Chasseur avec Pommes Château and Crêpes Sucrées with Crème Pâtissière and Sauce au Chocolat. The students were then judged on the presentation of the dishes, knife skills, techniques in the kitchen, taste, sanitary food handling, and timeliness.
The C-CAP Cooking Competitions for Scholarships are the culmination of the C-CAP high school program for underserved teenagers at risk of leaving high school without job or college prospects.
Standing O says, “Ooh la la, et c’est si bon.”
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