Saturday, July 01, 2006
Setting sights on Mindanao's Culinary Festival
THE Mindanao Culinary Festivals (MCF) has become a vehicle where students and professionals get tips and techniques to improve and hone their skills and eventually land jobs even internationally.
Hotelier Mary Ann Montemayor, member of the MCF organizing committee, said it was noticeable that during the last tourism jobs fair held in Davao City they got job orders for international placement.
She said players in the tourism industry, particularly the food and beverage sector, acknowledged that MCF is an event that really helped those in the field of culinary and related services.
She said with the launching this October of the 6th Mindanao Culinary Festival many are already expecting new good things to happen even as she said that there is always something unique and exciting to look forward during the yearly event.
The festival will highlight 15 competitions under the professional category and the latest of the category is the 3S or soup/salad/sandwich competition.
Under the professional category are the Nestle‚ Food Services Market Basket, Unilever Food Solutions Market Basket, Table Setting, Bartending, Mocktails, Wedding Cake, Cake Decoration Centerpiece Arrangement, Cold Platter Dessert, Maggi 3-Plated Cold Appetizers, Waiters Relay, Fruit and Vegetable Carving, Bread Display and Pastry Showpiece.
The culinary students from schools in Mindanao enrolled in school year 2006-2007 will compete on 11 categories namely Nestle Food Services Market Basket, Bartending, Nestea Mocktails, Table Setting, Cake Decoration, Centerpiece Arrangement, Napkin Folding, Waiter's Relay, Fruit and Vegetable Carving and the 3S.
Montemayor said the participants are looking forward to the inputs of experts on the culinary field from Manila and this will be accompanied with a lecture and briefing on varied aspects of the culinary field.
Emilie Dalisay of the Philippine Women's College, meanwhile, said that students are really looking forward to the competition and prepare themselves even at the start of classes for the big event.
The holding of the MCF is a frequently ask questions from students taking up courses in hotel and restaurant management as well as the culinary arts, she said.
MCF chair and Davao Tourism Association (Data) president Art Boncato on the other hand said that the 6th MCF will be held back to back with Third International Hotel, Restaurant and Home Expo on October 6 to 8 at the NCCC Convention Center in its desire to infuse the holiday spirit as it carries this year's theme with A Taste of Christmas, A Celebration of the Season.
A big number of exhibitors like the previous events are expected with major supporters such as San Miguel Corporation and Universal Robina Corporation.
As an added feature, there will be a Christmas Bazaar for specialty foods, home decor, Christmas crafts and other novelty items. (Press release)
(July 1, 2006 issue)
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