Ellen Adams,
CC, personal
chef of A Red
Hot Dish . . . and
Great Food Too!
in Webster, N.Y.,
and a member of
ACF Professional
Chefs/Cooks Association of Rochester,
traveled to Germany in January with the
nonprofit Cooking with the Troops for its
Operation Fight the Post Holiday Blues.
Adams and the group visited and cooked
for wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional
Medical Center.
Adams
Samuel “Wade”
Burch, CEC,
executive chef at
Southwest NY, New
York, a member of
ACF Northern New
Jersey Chapter,
won first place and
$10,000 on an episode of Food Network’s
“Chopped” that first aired Nov. 28, 2010.
Burch competed against three others in a
holiday-themed mystery-basket competition.
Burch
Richard Finley,
a retired chef
from Vancouver,
Wash., received the
Charles Altorfer
Professionalism
Award at ACF
Chefs de Cuisine
Society of Oregon’s 51st annual Chef of
the Year awards banquet, held at Columbia
Edgewater Country Club, Portland, Ore.,
Nov. 6, 2010. Erol Kanmaz, CEC, WCC,
executive sous chef, Timberline Lodge,
Timberline, Ore., was named Chef of the
Year, and Larry Mains, CEC, CCE, AAC,
director of culinary programs at Clark
College, Vancouver, Wash., was named
Chef Emeritus.
Finley Mains Kanmaz
Joelle Mahoney,
pastry chef/
chocolatier at
Signature Cakes
and Confectionary
in Brewster, N. Y.,
an ACF national
member, won
a gold medal, a cash prize and Best in
Show for her “Wedding at Chateau de
Chantilly” cake at the Société Culinaire
Philanthropique’s 142nd annual Salon of
Culinary Arts, held at the Jacob K. Javits
Convention Center, New York, during the
International Hotel, Motel+Restaurant
Show in November 2010.
Mahoney
Grace Eckstorm
of North Myrtle
Beach, S.C., a
member of ACF
Myrtle Beach
Chapter, won first
place and $2,000
in French’s Fried
Onion recipe contest in December for
her French’s four-cheese ravioli with
mushroom sauce.
Eckstorm
James Kremer,
CEC, executive
chef at the Country
Club of Peoria,
Peoria Heights, Ill.,
a member of ACF
Heart of Illinois
Professional Chefs
Association, won third place and $1,500
in December for his duck/apple tacos in
Maple Leaf Farms’ first “Discover Duck”
chef recipe contest. Kremer was one of
more than 200 entrants.
Kremer
Joseph
Wollinger,
CEC, CCE,
culinary program
coordinator
at Blackhawk
Technical College,
Janesville, Wis., a
member of ACF Blackhawk Chapter, was
named Outstanding Teacher of the Year
in Community Service by the Association
for Career and Technical Education at its
Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo
in Las Vegas, Dec. 2-4, 2010.
Wollinger
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