The Gluten-free Chef of the Year Competition is back for the third year and we’re very excited to have celebrity resident chef on ITV’s This Morning, Phil Vickery, as our judge. We will also be working in association with the Institute of Hospitality and the Craft Guild of Chefs with support and prizes from Sodexo and 3663.
If you enter as an up and coming chef you could win a stage at Pennyhill Park working alongside Michelin starred chef Michael Wignall. If you are a professional cook you could win a stage at Gleneagles with twice Michelin starred chef Andrew Fairlie. Both could also win a set of knives, 12 months membership of the Craft Guild of Chefs or the chance to develop a signature dish with Sodexo.
What do you have to do to enter
Simply design recipes for a three course gluten-free menu. If you are shortlisted then you will need to recreate the menu in a 90 minute live cook off to serve to four people. See our hints and tips page for more information.
Gluten-free Chef of the Year – for cooks over the age of 23
Up and Coming Gluten-free Chef of the Year – for catering college students and trainee cooks under 23
How to enter
- submit recipes via our online recipe form which is available here.
- send by post to: Gluten-free Chef of the Year, Coeliac UK, 3rd Floor Apollo Centre, Desborough Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 2QW
- or email: recipes@coeliac.org.uk
Dates for your diary
- all written entries must be received by Friday 15 October 2010
- entrants will be notified by 29 October 2010 for attendance of the live cook off
- the cook off will be on 9 November 2010.
Coeliac UK and all of this year’s supporters have a shared aim to improve awareness of coeliac disease and the gluten-free diet. By getting the catering industry on board with the competition, we hope to get chefs thinking about catering for people with coeliac disease.
Not a chef or catering student? You can still help
You can play a key role in getting news of the competition to chefs and catering students. Why not take a leaflet into your local restaurant or catering college? We are happy to provide you with leaflets you can distribute, so that we can find our next Gluten-free Chef of the Year.
So email us at recipes@coeliac.org.uk or call 01494 796114 and to request the leaflets you need. You can:
- distribute them to your local restaurants and catering colleges, asking if you can display them on notice boards
- get your friends and family to do the same
- let people know that we are only too happy to help if they need any further information.
This is your chance to raise awareness and increase the choices available to those with coeliac disease so please take it and help us to make this year’s Gluten-free Chef of the Year competition the most successful yet!
Posted via email from GF Doctor-a slightly biased view of gluten free life.
