Culinary Scholarships Available

The American Culinary Federation, Culinary Insider, newsletter reports:
New Scholarship Funds Available
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The American Academy of Chefs, the honor society of the American Culinary Federation, is proud to offer a new scholarship for college students. Through a generous donation from The Charlie Trotter Culinary Education Foundation, eight $5,000 scholarships are now available. Applications are due by May 1 and can obtained by calling the ACF Education Department at (800) 624-9458.
Scholarship resources on the ACF Web site will assist you in your scholarship search. More

A Culinary Event

Pierpont's Culinary Teams were highlighted during A Culinary Event, a fundraising dinner for the culinary teams and programs. (Read more about the event in the Times WV article http://www.timeswv.com/local/local_story_086021604.html.) The dinner featured a variation of the award winning four-course menu presented by the Culinary Team at the recent American Culinary Federation Northeast Regional.

Two very important announcements were revealed at the dinner: First, Chef Brian Floyd, CEC gave the group of friends and partners a sneak peak of a conceptual rendering of the proposed student-operated bistro to be located in downtown Fairmont. Chef Floyd then announced the Pierpont Culinary Academy: A named program of distinction, recognized for continued successful accreditation, sustained growth and future vision.

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Pierpont Culinary Academy Announced

A special group of friends and partners gathered on Saturday March 28, 2009, as the Pierpont Community Technical College announced the Pierpont Culinary Academy. Pierpont Culinary Academy is a named program of distinction, recognized for continued successful accreditation, sustained growth and future vision.

The Pierpont Culinary Academy features the nationally American Culinary Federation Accrediting Commission(ACFAC) accredited Culinary Arts program and the ACFAC accredited Pastry & Baking Arts program. Future plans for the Academy are to pursue a student-operated bistro in downtown Fairmont, to maintain a superior level of quality education, and to continue its partnership with the City of Fairmont, Main Street Fairmont, Marion County Chamber of Commerce, and the Fairmont Community Development Partnership in its efforts to support community and economic development in Fairmont and Marion County.

Pierpont Culinary offers Scholarships to ProStart

Pictured above (LtoR)Putnam Co., Marion Co., Wood Co.

The 2009 ProStart Hospitality Cup was held at Stonewall Resort recently. Pierpont Culinary provided scholarships for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams in the culinary competition.

For the fifth year in a row, Pierpont offer full tuition waivers for the 1st place team, half tuition waivers for the second place team, and quarter tuition waivers for the third place team.

This year's two-day event featured eleven teams from around the state. Each team competed in the business management portion of the competition on day 1 and the cooking competition on day 2.

Putnam County Career & Technical Center won 1st place in culinary competition, Marion County Technical Center won 2nd, and Wood County Vo-tech Center won 3rd.

Hamilton Featured in Times WV

Photo by Danny Snyder/Times WV.
Pam Hamilton, MS, RD Associate Professor of Food Service Management was recently featured in a Times West Virginian article, A Healthy Lifestyle. Read about Mrs. Hamilton's tips for avoiding the wrong kinds of fat, and about how to focus on portion to maintain a more healthy diet.

Read more at:
http://www.timeswv.com/homepage/local_story_056012430.html

A Culinary Event

Pierpont Culinary recently announced they will offer:
A Culinary Event~enjoy a semi-formal evening of fine dining with the Culinary Team, Saturday March 28th. The fundraising dinner will feature a variation of the four course menu that the team prepared for the American Culinary Federation Northeast Regional competition.

Table sponsorships are available, and exciting updates and announcements about the program are being planned. Champagne Reception begins at 6:30pm and the Food & Wine Dinner begins at 7pm.

Contact Chef Floyd to see how you can be involved brian.floyd@pierpont.edu

Culinary Team Wins Bronze Medals

Building on the third place finish of the Knowledge Bowl Team, the Culinary Team members (Ted Hastings, Captin; Amanda Emerson; Joseph White; Kellie Smith; and Sarabeth Cox; Chef Jay Mahoney, Coach) were awarded bronze medals for there performance at the 2009 Amecian Culinary Federation Northeast Regional.

Eight teams competed in the event. Pennsylvania Culinary Institute won the competition and Hocking Community College (Nelsonville, Ohio) was second. The standings were announced at the Vice Presidents Gala Monday night.

Medals are award to teams reaching an industry competition standard. Some culinary competitions are won with only one team receiving enough points to be awarded a medal. However, this year's Regional fielded a very talented group of teams, and Pierpont was very proud to have received a score between 28-31.99 out of 40 to qualify for a bronze medal.

Congratulations to the Culinary and Knowledge Bowl Teams on a very solid performance in Boston.

See photos from the entire conference at:
http://www.digiproofs.com/ Password: ACFBOSTON