Chef wins top award

12 March 2010

A SCHOOL chef has been highly commended in a nationwide competition.

Wyvern Community School catering manager, Ann Allan, was praised for her dessert at the south west final of the Local Authority Caterers Association School Chef of the Year competition in Plymouth.

Ann, who works for school meals contractor Edwards and Ward, went head-to-head with five other chefs from the region and narrowly missed a place in the national final.

The competition puts the planning, preparation, cooking, creativity and presentation skills of school chefs to the test and requires each entrant to produce, in just one and a half hours, a healthy balanced two-course meal comprising a main course and dessert that would appeal to eleven-year-olds in school.

The dishes must conform to nutritional standards and can be made up of poultry, meat, fish and non-meat proteins and cost just £1.25 pence per head to produce.