Viewing Party a lot of Fun

About 20 students, faculty, and friends showed up to watch the Food Network debut of Kenny Poling and Lucina Vance (1st year Culinary and Pastry & Baking students). The crowd cheered when they first caught a glimpse of their classmates on the big screen TV in the Falcon Center.

Everyone watched intently to see if they could make dinner "possible" for approximately 500 people. The menu consisted of Italian and Greek favorites selected by the mother of Michael Symon, the show's star.

Kenny spent most his day making the apple crumb dessert. Lucinda helped make some of the 600 meatballs needed for the day. Lucinda said, "It was very exciting, because the chef (Michael Symon) was literally one foot away from me, and Marc Summers was in the production crew." Kenny said, "I'll never get that experience again. It was once in a lifetime, and I'm quite excited it got to happen."

You can learn more about the new Food Network "stars" by clicking on the What's on the Menu section of this blog and viewing the WBOY story.

Congrats to Kenny & Lucinda!

2008-09 Culinary Team Named

Congratulations, to the 2008-09 Pierpont Culinary Team. Tryouts were held Friday, September 5th and the following students have been selected for this year's team: Ted Hastings, Amanda Emerson, Joseph White, Kellie Smith, Sara Beth Cox (alternate), and coach- Chef Jay Mahoney, CEC.

The team will immediately begin training for the state competition, to be held at Mountain State University on Monday, November 10th. The winner of the state competition will go on to represent West Virginia at the American Culinary Federation Northeast Regional Conference to be held in Boston, MA February 7-9, 2009.

Good luck to each of the competitors on their quest toward a national championship.

Four Students to Appear in Dinner: Impossible

Four students in Pierpont's Culinary and Pastry & Baking programs will appear in an up-coming Dinner: Impossible television program to be aired 10pm September 10, 2008.

Kenny Poling and Brooke Lafferty (Culinary Arts), Lucinda Vance and Tashina Spring (Pastry & Baking) are first year students who have been accepted to Pierpont's selective enrollment programs. All four students are from Taylor County's ProStart program.

The group participated with Food Network's Michael Symon in Dinner: Impossible episode IE0504. Mother's Day Madness sponsored by Teleflora Flowers was filmed at the International Mother's Day Shrine in Grafton, WV.

The event was a Mother's Day picnic for 150 Mothers and their families. Approximately 500 people attended the event, and the students were among those who helped to pull off the mission to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Mother's Day.

Read more at this link to the Food Network:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ie/episode/0,3151,FOOD_28496_59321,00.html