Richard Phillips

New competition launches for Kent students

16th September 2009, 8:34am

A new recipe and cookery competition for Kent's secondary school students has been launched by Produced in Kent to encourage young people to create and cook locally grown food and seasonal produce in the 'Garden of England'.

Students are being invited to get their creative hats on and write an original recipe for a main dish for two (meat, fish or vegetarian), which wherever possible uses ingredients that are grown and produced in Kent. Young people can simply go online on www.producedinkent.co.uk to enter (before Friday 30 October), and they can also follow the competition on Facebook and Twitter. 

The brand new 'Kent Young Chef Award' is sponsored by local foodservice supplier kff, and will see eight young finalists cook their recipe entry in a live final at the catering school at Thanet College on the 27 November.

The two young chefs who create the best recipes (in the junior and senior categories) will be presented with their prestigious 'Kent Young Chef Award' by Neil Buchanan, the presenter of TV's award winning 'Art Attack' and numerous other prizes.

Richard Phillips, who has built up a successful number of award-winning restaurants and regularly features on 'Ready Steady Cook', will head up a team of judges at Thanet College, where he himself once studied.

Phillips commented: "A competition to get young people interested in cooking and aware of local and seasonal food is a great idea and I am honoured to be asked to judge the competition. Thanet College is a great venue for the live cook off and a place that is close to my heart.  I am sure we are going to have some very high quality entries to decide on and who knows we may even find a future staff chef of tomorrow."

Related Articles:

• 08 Dec 2009 - Victory for two school cooks in Kent Young Chef Award
• 18 Nov 2009 - Finalists gear up for Kent Young Chef Award
• 20 Oct 2009 - Produced in Kent launches pork campaign

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