Chef of the Future Competition

The Cordon Vert cookery school is launching its quest to find new vegetarian culinary stars for 2010 through its Chef of the Future competition.

The first stage of the competition is to create a three course meal which is suitable for vegetarians. The finalists will then be expected to produce their full menu at a live cook off on Thursday 27 May 2010 at the Vegetarian Society headquarters in Cheshire during National Vegetarian Week. The closing date for entries is 23 April 2010 application forms are available at www.nationalvegetarianweek.org The contest is open to vegetarian and non-vegetarian chefs alike.

The winner of the award will receive a fully funded Cordon Vert Diploma scholarship (worth in excess of £1,500), a personalised chef's jacket, a year's membership to the Vegetarian Society and a hamper of products approved by the Vegetarian Society.

The Chef of the Future Award 2009 had joint winners Eddie Shepherd and Barry Tonkinson.

Eddie Shepherd said: "The Chef of the Future competition was an amazing experience for me. As a vegetarian chef it was great to be able to cook my own dishes along side other brilliant chefs, some with Michelin star experience, and not be prejudged because I choose to cook without meat. Winning the chef of the future competition was one of the best things that's ever happened to me as a chef. Good luck to all the chefs entering this year."

The Cordon Vert school has an unrivalled reputation for excellent and innovative vegetarian cuisine drawing on a variety of international flavours and ingredients reflecting current trends in world cuisine with fresh and imaginative ideas.

National Vegetarian Week sponsored by Cauldron Foods is from 24-30 May 2010. The week is now in its eighteenth year and is an established date in the food calendar. This is the fourth year that Cauldron Foods has joined the Week as headline sponsor. The Week gives schools, canteens, caterers, restaurants, libraries and individuals a reason to focus on increasing fruit and veg consumption, revamp their veggie options, launch new menus, look at the issues around food or simply try something different.

National Vegetarian Week is coordinated by the Vegetarian Society, an educational charity formed in 1847.

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