National Culinary Review

Joseph Alfano, chef at Universal Orlando City Walk, Orlando, Fla., a member of ACF Central Florida Chapter, received the chapter’s 2010

Chef of the Year Award at its Presidential Awards Banquet held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Jan. 9.

Alfano

Albert Schmid,
CEC, CCE, CCA,
chair of Sullivan
University’s
Hotel-Restaurant
Management,
Beverage
Management and
Hospitality Management departments,
Louisville, Ky., and a member of ACF
Kentucky Chapter, won a Gourmand
International World Cookbook Award for
The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook (The
University Press of Kentucky, 2010).
The book was recognized as “Best Book
for Cooking with Drinks in the World”
in Paris, March 2, during the opening
ceremonies of the Paris Cookbook Fair.

Schmid

Petty Officer
2nd Class
Patrick Parigi
and Chief
Petty Officer
Brandon Parry,
CEC, members
of ACF Chefs &
Culinarians of San Diego, were two of
four U.S. Navy culinary specialists to
represent the U.S. for the first time in the
9th International Istanbul Gastronomy
Festival in Istanbul, Feb. 17-20. Overall,
the team received a silver medal in
the “Cook and Serve” category, which
featured Parigi and Parry as a team,
a bronze medal in the risotto cooking
competition and the No. 1 award for
sanitation and hygiene.

Parry

Eric Kopelow,
CEC, vice
president /corporate
executive chef,
Universal Studios
Hollywood,
Universal City,
Calif., and an
ACF national member, was named Chef
magazine’s 2010 Chef of the Year. He was
featured in Chef’s January 2011 issue.

Kopelow

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