Unilever Food Solutions Chef of the Year awards

22 Sep 2010

The Unilever Food Solutions Chef of the Year awards, held last week in Durban attracted local and international talent, as talented chefs competed for their share of R90 000 in cash. Petrus Madutlela (Le Quartier Francais, Cape Town) took first place, a R15 000 cash prize and the overall title of Unilever Food Solutions Chef of the Year 2010.

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Winners

Senior category - Sharmaine Dixon (1000 Hills Chefs School, Durban) second place, wining R10 000, and Ruben Rebuffo (Hilton Dubai Jumeirah in Arabia) came third, winning R5000.
Junior Chef of the Year was won by Christo Pretorius (Hunters Hotel Tsala Treetops Lodge, Cape Town), who walked away with R10 000, with second place and R6000 going to Charmaine Allan (1000 Hills Chef School, Durban) and the third prize of R4000 to Lyndon Cresswell (Southern Sun Elangeni, Durban)
Team of Four category was won by Team Sheraton (Pretoria), winning R20 000, Western Province Caterers (Cape Town) coming second with R12 000 and the Didima Resort Drakensburg (KwaZulu-Natal) taking third prize of R8000.

"We're also delighted, for the second year, to have brought a global edge to the competition. As part of the SAMEP (South Africa Middle East and Pakistan) cluster within Unilever Food Solutions, it is with great pride that we welcome the chefs from Pakistan, Mashreq and Arabia," says Eelco Camminga, MD of Unilever Food Solutions South Africa, Middle East and Pakistan. "As the global village becomes smaller every day and we all benefit from the integration of our countries into a broader community, we believe the development of this competition into one in which chefs from all over the region pit their skills against one another, conveys enormous prestige and recognition of an entire continent. Looking at the judges' scoring, it is plain to see that the standards were extremely high."