WACS OFFICIAL INAUGURATES BCP JUNIOR CHEFS – BALI CHAPTER
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WACS OFFICIAL INAUGURATES
BCP JUNIOR CHEFS – BALI CHAPTER
Bali, 30 May 2009… Bali Culinary Professionals Junior Chefs Officially Announces its establishment during the monthly gathering at Ayodya Resort Bali, Saturday 30 May 2009. The event was attended by special World Association of Chefs Society (WACS) officials, John Sloane as WACS Continental Director Asia and Alan Orreal as WACS Advisor for Global Development of Junior Chefs MCC.
Several young chefs have made their first steps to chefs of the future when they established the Junior Chef board of committee lead by Alexander Tanuhardja, former STP student, currently doing training at The Bulgari Resort Bali, with vice president Ivan Suputra, former STP student, currently doing training at Four Seasons Resort, Bali. The board is advised by BCP vice president, Darren Lauder, executive chef of Nusa Dua Beach Resort and Spa.
The Junior Chefs Club Bali chapter was established to inspire and to stimulate young chefs and chefs-to-be in Bali, by providing opportunities for greater exposure, learning and professional growth, at national and international level. “Our goal is to a community of young culinarians, working to raise the bar of excellence among the young chefs of Bali and Indonesia and to build up the next generation of chefs”, says president of Junior Chefs Bali Chapter, Alexander.
Despite their young age, members of the Junior Chef Bali Chapter has engraved their achievements at national and international events, among them Plated Food Display, student category during the Salon Culinaire in Bali 2008, Bocuse d’Or Hong Kong 2008, and for this year the Junior Asian Chef Challenge during the Salon Culinaire in Jakarta and the Global Chefs Challenge Hong Kong.
“Chefs today need a whole host of talents as well as excellent culinary skills to excel in the hospitality industry. It is vital that our chefs are as well versed in interpersonal skills as they are in regional food. This is where BCP can be provide guidance and mentoring to the junior chefs”, claims Darren Lauder, advisor for the Club.
Editor’s Note :
Bali Culinary Professionals is a non-profitable organization that supports chefs in Bali with members comprising of chefs of various levels from hotels and restaurants across the Island of Bali, together with food and beverage managers, owners and suppliers to the hospitality industry. The goal of the organization is to create, maintain and improve professional standards of chefs, highlighting and encouraging new and needed skills, facilitating new ideas and exposing Balinese food and their craftsmen locally and overseas.
For more information on Bali Culinary Professionals
Please browse : www.balichefs.com or contact :
BCP Secretariat
c.o. Travel Works Communications International
Jl. Kesari no. 60A
Tel 0361.284095, Fax 0361.270189
E-mail : info@travelworks-bali.com
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One Response to “WACS OFFICIAL INAUGURATES BCP JUNIOR CHEFS – BALI CHAPTER”
June 16th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Dear Sirs,
May i have any information about the scholarship of BCP for STP’s students?
How can i involved in that program?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Faitfully yours,
Listya
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