As part of the SkyService 2017 International Forum, which will be held on April 26-27 in Gostiny Dvor, chefs from the world's leading catering companies that develop menus and prepare dishes for air passengers will demonstrate their skills and compete for the title of the best. The SKY DELIGHT AWARDS 2017 (International Culinary Competition) is organized by CJSC Aeromar and will be held for the first time on April 26 with the support of the Russian National Culinary Association (NACR).
Under the terms of culinary competitions 10 chefs from different countries developing menus for such airlines as Aeroflot, Turkish Airlines, Air France, British Airways, SWISS and others will have to prepare 4 dishes in two categories:
- For business class: cold appetizer or salad and hot dish,
- For economy class cold appetizer or salad and a hot dish.
Special guests of the event will open the Prize and greet the participants of the competition: a famous restaurateur - Arkady Novikov and food writer and blogger Nika Belotserkovskaya.
The jury represented by Viktor Belyaev, President of the National Culinary Association of Russia, who had the honor to cook for M. Gandhi and M. Thatcher, as well as a panel of professional judges and chefs from Moscow restaurants, will evaluate dishes and award points in categories that are key for in-flight catering :
- taste,
- rational use of products,
- the complexity of the dish and professional skill,
- appearance,
- the possibility of introducing dishes into on-board meals.
On the second day of the Forum, April 27, the mood set by the competition will be supported by the leading chefs of Moscow restaurants and demonstrate their skills at open culinary master classes.
Moscow, Gostiny Dvor, st. Ilyinka, 4.
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Help for participating chefs:
Thomas Munzel- LSG SKY CHIEFS catering chef. His culinary experience includes German, Thai and Chinese cuisines, as well as confectionery and bakery products. He also enjoys researching technologies such as sous vide and slow cooking and adapting them for use in airline service.
Danai Kaewpradub- Chef of Catering Department, Thai Airways International PLC. Specialist in Thai cuisine, Thai Airways chef with experience in the Ministry of Labor of Thailand.
Pradeep Bhatnagar- Executive chef of THE AMBASSADOR "S SKY CHEF (India, Delhi). Over the past 30 years, he has served many international and national airlines. He was invited to Copenhagen by SAS to train chefs in Indian cuisine.
Raman Koul- sous-chef THE AMBASSADOR "S SKY CHEF (India, Delhi). Regularly serves boards for foreign flights of the President and Prime Minister of India. Travels a lot around the world, popularizing Indian cuisine. Known for his dishes of national Indian cuisine for VIP flights.
Tran Van Ha– chef of Vietnam Air Catering Services Company (Vietnam). Specialist in Vietnamese cuisine, with experience with Korean cuisine in Seoul. During his time in the industry, he served both charter flights and private jets, including with international government officials and politicians.
Terry Mona– Aeromar. Chef with 30 years of experience. A Frenchman of Swiss origin, a first-class in-flight catering specialist.
Derr Denis- Chef of the Aeromar branch in the Far East. He has extensive experience with Asian cuisine (Korean, Japanese, Chinese), experience in bakery and confectionery production, with Italian pizza and German cuisine.
Cuong Nguyen Kien- Chef at Noibai Catering Services Company (Vietnam). A young specialist with extensive experience in Asian cuisine with experience in the restaurant business. Great attention is paid to the observance of standards and the appearance of dishes.
Tima Tamer- LSG Catering Chef (Hong Kong). He started his career in haute cuisine. He has experience in embassies, as well as on board, serving the first persons. In 2014, he served the flight of the President of Germany from Yangon to New Zealand.
Information about the organizer
CJSC Aeromar is the largest Russian company that produces meals for air passengers, provides cleaning and outfitting services for aircraft cabins, and provides trade services on board the aircraft.
The company was founded in 1989 by the founders of Aeroflot MVS enterprises and the American company Marriott Inflight Services, as a result of the merger of the first syllables of the names of these companies, the name AeroMar arose. Today CJSC "Aeromar" occupies a leading position in the industry of the catering business of the Russian Federation.
CJSC Aeromar supplies in-flight meals for more than 40 clients - Russian and international air carriers, serves flights with heads of state.
In April 2014, the company launched a new project - the organization of trade services on board the airline's aircraft - SKYSHOP. Since that time, the assortment of goods for trade on board has been significantly updated and increased, a variety of categories of goods are presented for passengers to choose from.
The key client and partner of CJSC Aeromar is the largest national air carrier in Russia - PJSC Aeroflot - Russian Airlines. Aeromar CJSC has long-standing partnerships with more than 30 Russian and foreign companies: Delta, Air France, Korean Air, China Southern, China Eastern, Rossiya Airlines, UTair, Royal Flight, etc.
GO TO "BATTLE OF THE COOKERS - 2017"!
"Battle of Chefs" is a professional culinary competition, a spectacular show program dedicated to the art of cooking, a unique city-scale event created for young, ambitious professionals who are ready to prove to the general public that cooking is an art.
The first "Battle of the Chefs" took place on May 31, 2015 in one of the city's nightclubs. The best restaurants of our city put forward their teams, which competed for 1st place. There were also representatives from Vikhorevka and Ust-Kut. In total, 10 teams participated in the competition. The winner received a Certificate for participation in the professional culinary competition "Copper Frying Pan" (Irkutsk), which gives the opportunity to win a free internship at one of the best culinary schools in Moscow. The second Battle of the Chefs took place in April last year.
The project was nominated for the National Award in the field of event tourism "Russian Event Awards" in 2015, passed the Regional stage in the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal District, took 1st place and reached the final, which took place in Kazan on October 21-22. Only two projects reached the finals in the nomination "Best event in the field of gastronomic tourism" from the Siberian Federal District: "Battle of the Chefs" from Bratsk and "Siberian Hospitality" from Novosibirsk, both projects did not take prizes in the finals.
On May 26, 2017, the third “Battle of Chefs” will take place in Bratsk, and it is planned that the competition will become annual and regional. The organizers of the competition, as well as last year, were Aleksey and Natalia Domrachevy - Delo Vkusa Plus LLC (Restaurant "Rice and Dough", Culinary Studio "Pasta", Bratsk).
The jury of the competition this year included well-known chefs, professionals in their field, who have achieved visible results in their profession.
The jury this year was Maxim Syrnikov(St. Petersburg) - the most famous modern historian and practitioner of traditional Russian cuisine, author of the books "Real Russian Food" and "Real Russian Holidays". His website and blog on LiveJournal is dedicated to authentic national cuisine, one that, being part of traditional Russian culture, will help us not to get lost among the bright advertising of global fast food. Maxim travels all over the country and these are not just theoretical, ethnographic and historical trips and collecting material, this is a constant work in the kitchens of restaurants, holding master classes, organizing themed and charity dinners.
The jury also included:
Alexander Goncharov(Novosibirsk) - member of the Siberian Guild of Chefs (Member of the Council of the Siberian Guild of Chefs), expert in the regional championship "Young Professionals" World Skills of the Novosibirsk Region - 2017 in the competence of "Cooking", expert and member of the judging of the project "Russian Oven 2014”, participant in a culinary competition among restaurants, at the international exhibition project PIR EXPO (Moscow), participant in the Russia House project - presentation of Russian cuisine and holding master classes as part of the 2014 FIFA World Cup (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), winner of the annual Okroshka Festival (Vladimir) in the team competition in the nomination "Best Okroshka", winner of the culinary arts festival "Spring Culinary Cup 2014" (Novosibirsk) in the team competition in the nomination "National Lunch";
Alexey Rassafonov (Irkutsk) - chef of the OLD CAFE restaurant (Irkutsk), member of the National Guild of Chefs, member of the Association of Restaurant Business in Siberia, 2-time winner of the Irkutsk BBQ Championship, 2-time winner of the Mednaya frying pan" of the city of Irkutsk;
Sergey Ternov(Belokurikha) - brand chef of the Belka Management group (Belokurikha), member of the National Culinary Association, member of the Siberian Guild of Chefs, 2-time silver medalist of the Spring Culinary Cup Novosibirsk-2013, silver medalist of the Culinary Land -2015 "(Altai), bronze medalist of the World Culinary Olympiad IKA 2016 (Germany), gold medalist of Chef a la Russe 2016 (Novosibirsk), bronze medalist and participant in the grand final of Chef a la Russe 2017 (Moscow), finalist of the culinary show on NTV" Battle of Chiefs";
Anton Prokofiev(Moscow) - brand chef of the company "Dinner for Dinner", chef of the restaurant "Gusyatnikoff", a young, talented, promising chef, an excellent presenter and showman, participant in many culinary and television shows, candidate of historical sciences!
As participants, the restaurant Dom Rybaka (Irkutsk), an independent team from Krasnoyarsk and brothers have already submitted applications for today: the Munich restaurant, the Arsenal bar-karaoke, the Don Yapon delivery restaurant, the Taiga restaurant and the restaurant " Rice and Dough.
The competition will be held in two stages - "Homework" and "Final Competition". Homework: participants prepare a hot dish and a salad (the products of the participants are used, home-made preparations are allowed - peeled fruits and vegetables). Cooking time - 40 minutes, a minute is given for the presentation of the dish. In the final competition, participants will need to cook a hot dish of Siberian cuisine from the presented set of products in 40 minutes. A prerequisite for the Competition is that all dishes must be cooked in a frying pan, without the use of ovens and other heating equipment. From what the participants will cook their dishes until the last minute remains a mystery - the list of products is announced on the day of the "Battle of the Chefs" before the start of the "Qualifying Stage" and "Final".
When grading the participants, the originality of the recipe, taste, teamwork, presentation of dishes will be taken into account.
Restaurants and catering establishments of the Irkutsk region are invited to participate in the Competition - the team must apply for participation by filling out a questionnaire on the website bitvapovarov.ru.
The All-Russian culinary competition "Discover the Taste of Science!" has been announced. Deadline September 28, 2017.
Organizer: British Council in Russia with the support of the Culinary Studio of Yulia Vysotskaya in Moscow.
Competition summary:
Food and science - what do they have in common? Maybe some dish was born as a result of a scientific experiment? Or can some ingredients only be crafted in a science lab? Or do you know something about Charles Darwin's favorite dish?
Conditions of the competition
- Prepare a dish that you think reflects the connection between science and food. It can be either your own recipe or a borrowed one.
- Post a photo of this dish on Instagram or Vkontakte with the hashtags #culscience #StudyUK, give a recipe (in Russian) and an explanation or story (in English and Russian) in the description of the photo, how science helped in creating this dish or, for example, how it is associated with a particular scientist.
- Access to the participant's account must be open for the duration of the competition and within 10 days after the end of the acceptance of works.
- Mark the accounts of the British Council and the Culinary Studio of Yulia Vysotskaya in the photo on Instagram or in the caption to the text on Vkontakte, depending on where the work will be posted.
- Grand Prize. Two weeks of English language training at the Mayfair School of English (UK). The organizers of the competition also pay for accommodation, flight Moscow-London-Moscow, transfer from the airport in the UK and back. The Mayfair School of English is located in the heart of London and has over 30 years of experience teaching English. They pride themselves on student opportunities and offer high quality English language instruction combined with a welcoming atmosphere and professionalism. The school understands how important it is for students to feel part of the school and do everything possible to make everyone feel welcome here and return home with positive memories of studying in the UK. The prize does not include: visa expenses, meals for the duration of training, medical insurance, pocket expenses.
- Prize for second place. Certificate for training at the Culinary Studio of Yulia Vysotskaya (5,000 rubles) in Moscow and Foodie gift set from JosephJoseph
- Prize for third place. Certificate for training at the Culinary Studio of Yulia Vysotskaya (5,000 rubles) in Moscow.
- Additional prizes.
On January 13, 2017, in the building of the City Hall on Novy Arbat, the Svyato Danilov Patriarchal Monastery and the Center for the Revival of Traditions held 6th Youth Gastronomic Festival “Reviving Traditions. Christmas".
The partners in organizing the Festival were the National Culinary Association of Russia and the Culinary Association "Taste of the World Rus".
The aim of the project is to improve the professional skills of students of vocational schools and young professionals in the field of food culture and hospitality within the framework of the traditions of the Orthodox meal. The festival, which proclaimed the revival and preservation of Orthodox culinary traditions, encourages students to expand their horizons, improve their skills and comprehend the rich culture and folk traditions not only of their own country, but also of other Orthodox countries.
For the third time the Festival was held in the International format. The teams of the embassies of the Republic of Serbia in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Bulgaria in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Greece in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Cyprus in the Russian Federation, Romania and the Republic of Srpska laid tasting tables in accordance with their Christmas traditions.
The festival was opened by the head of the project “Reviving Traditions”, the cellar of the Svyato Danilov Patriarchal Monastery, Hieromonk Feognost, and the president of the NP “Center for the Revival of Traditions”, Anna Fyodorovna Karpinovich.
Welcoming speeches were delivered by: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the Russian Federation, Mr. Vasile Soare; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Montenegro to the Russian Federation Mr. Igor Jovovich; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation Panasyuk Sergey Konstantinovich; Director of the Greek Cultural Center Mrs. Theodora Yannici.
Welcoming words were read from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to the Russian Federation, Mr. Slavenko Terzic, from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cyprus to the Russian Federation, Mr. Georgios Kasulidis, from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Russian Federation, Mr. Boyko Kotsev, from the Director of the Representation of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Dusko Perovic, from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova to the Russian Federation, Mr. Dumitru Braghis.
Greetings were given by:
Mikhail Pavlovich Shchetinin, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Nature Management; Head of the Department of National Policy, Interregional Relations and Tourism of the City of Moscow Vitaly Ivanovich Suchkov; Vladimir Alexandrovich Bykov, Head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation; Deputy Head of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the City of Moscow Tatyana Mitrofanovna Barsukova; General Director of the Association of Branch Unions of the Agroindustrial Complex, Deputy Chairman of the RF CCI Committee for the Development of the Agroindustrial Complex Popova Margarita Vladimirovna; and about. Permanent Representative of the Republic of Crimea to the President of the Russian Federation Kudrin Sergey Nikolaevich.
We received congratulations from: Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Nikolaevich Tkachev; Head of the Department of Trade and Services of Moscow Alexey Alekseevich Nemeryuk; Head of the Federal Agency Rossotrudnichestvo Lyubov Nikolaevna Glebova.
The project "Reviving Traditions" is actively developing. New participants and partners join the project. During the festival, the following documents were signed: Cooperation Agreement with the International Union of Public Associations "Russian Association for International Cooperation" (RAMS), Secretary General - Vladimir Mikhailovich Polozkov; Agreement on cooperation with the National Association of Culinary Arts of Russia, President - Belyaev Viktor Borisovich; Cooperation agreement with SUSPEKH LLC, General Director - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lagutin.
Within the framework of the Festival, the creation of the Public Association "Transfiguration" was announced, initiated by the NP "Center for the Revival of Traditions", the National Association of Culinaries of Russia and the Association "Taste of the World Rus".
17 colleges took part in the competitive part of the Festival:
- GOU SPO Tsaritsyno
- GOU Service Industry College No. 10
- GBPOU Moscow Educational Complex West
- GBPOU Food College No. 33
- GBPOU College of Service Industry No. 3
- GOPU MO Sergiev Posad College
- Michurin branch of the Russian University of Cooperation
- GBPOU MO "Lukhovitsk Agro-Industrial College"
- Academy of Sciences of VET Vladimir College of Economics and Law
- GBPOU RK "Romanov College of Hospitality Industry"
- GBPOU MO "Schelkovo College"
- GBPOU First Moscow Educational Complex
- NChU Almaty financial-legal and technological college (Kazakhstan)
- GAPOU MO Yegorievsk College
- GAPOU MO "Ugresh College"
- GBPOU "Astrakhan State Polytechnic College"
- GBPOU "Samara College of Culinary Arts"
The festival was held in 4 categories:
- Christmas bird dish
- World (regional) Christmas baking
- Sweets as decoration on the Christmas tree
- Christmas soft drink.
Each college had a team of 6 people. All nominations were prepared in the "Homework" format. Each nomination was evaluated by a separate professional jury, which included representatives of the Culinary Associations and the Guild of Chefs, well-known chefs, confectioners, bartenders, specialists from the Institute of the Baking Industry.
The jury evaluated the taste, appearance, technology and quality of preparation, the complexity of execution, design. A recipe was always presented, especially old and regional recipes were welcomed. As a whole, the author's ideas were evaluated.
Particular attention was paid to the knowledge of the history of the dish, the technology of its preparation and the ability to present their work to the jury.
The winners of the Festival are:
- GBPOU RK "Romanov College of Hospitality Industry" (Republic of Crimea) - 1 place
- Moscow College of Management, Hotel Business and Information Technology "Tsaritsyno" - 2nd place
- GBPOU "First Moscow Educational Complex" - 3rd place.
All the winners of the Festival were awarded diplomas of the Center for the Revival of Traditions, as well as, according to the established good tradition, professional gifts from the ATESI machine-building enterprise.
Category winners:
Christmas bird dish
World (regional) Christmas baking- GBPOU RK "Romanov College of Hospitality Industry";
Sweets as decoration on the Christmas tree - GOU SPO "Tsaritsyno";
Christmas soft drink GOU SPO "Tsaritsyno".
The winners in the nominations were awarded their prizes by the Complex Bar company.
All participants of the Festival received Diplomas of the Center for the Revival of Traditions and gifts from the Historical Perspective Foundation and Tupperware.
The Orthodox Rus movement and Belaya Dacha Trading CJSC, Robot Coupe SNC (France), Tambovsky Privoz Farm established and presented prizes of their sympathies.
As part of the Festival “Reviving traditions. Christmas ”a competition was organized for the best sketch of a cook’s costume for Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden among students of the College of Musical and Theater Arts named after. G.P. Vishnevskaya. The professional jury summed up the results and named the winners:
Lakrba Anna - 1st place;
Basenko Valery - 2nd place;
Moiseeva Ulyana - 3rd place.
The sketches of all the participants were exhibited in the hall where the Festival was held and attracted great attention from the public. In addition, mannequins with Russian costumes were exhibited in the hall, also made by the students of the College. G.P. Vishnevskaya. During the Festival, students of the art department made reportage sketches, which will soon be posted on the website of the Center for the Revival of Traditions.
An interesting component of the Festival “Reviving Traditions. Christmas ”was a school competition for table decoration. Two Moscow schools (1852 and 1015) presented two thematic tables. The winners were awarded the Festival.
The Festival was supported by: the Department of National Policy, Interregional Relations and Tourism of Moscow, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Association of Industry Unions of the Agroindustrial Complex (ASSAGROS), the Federal State Budget Scientific Institution NIIHP, the International Union of Public Associations "Russian Association for International Cooperation" (RAMS), the Center for the Development of Strategic projects "Club of Orthodox Entrepreneurs", the Movement "Orthodox Russia", the Regional Public Fund "Children of the Rain", the Cultural and Educational Center "Pozitiv", the Fund for Historical Perspective, the Moscow Public Regional Organization of Veterans of Trade, Catering and Consumer Services and other organizations.
We were supported by the Embassies of Orthodox countries: the Republic of Bulgaria in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Serbia in the Russian Federation, Montenegro, the Republic of Srpska, the Republic of Cyprus in the Russian Federation, Romania, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, etc.
In the preparation of the Festival we were helped by:
- Machine-building enterprise "ATESI"
- Company "Complex Bar"
- CJSC Belaya Dacha Trading
- Company "El Consult"
- Robot Coupe SNC (France)
- METRO Co.
- Farm "Tambovsky Privoz"
- Tupperware Company.
Media partners are:
- Film company "Union Marins Group"
- International Internet TV channel TV-MIX
- People's Radio.
For the sixth time the whole world has held a grandiose holiday - a review of young gastronomic talents. Thanks to all the companies for their help and support.
Thanks to everyone who spared no effort, time and money to make this wonderful holiday happen.
