• Your CAFÉ Leadership Conference registration covers all master classes, an opening night reception, two breakfasts, two lunches, world-class speakers and relevant panels and break out sessions. Other highlights include an InfoFair as well as topical lunch-time roundtable discussions.  There are optional area Tours for Saturday afternoon if you would like to experience some of the beautiful summer weather in Providence.
  
  Our host is Johnson & Wales University in its new, 82,000 square foot Center for Culinary Excellence.

• Your CAFÉ workshop events include all classes, a reception, two breakfasts, and two lunches.  In addition you will receive a knife or pastry kit plus a chef’s jacket.

ACF continuing education hours are awarded for all events and JWU Continuing Education Units are also available.

Call the CAFÉ office at (410) 268-5542 or email marypetersen@prodigy.net with any questions.

Providence Reception Highlights

Our opening night Awards Reception (June 23) will be featuring food stations from our sponsors with dishes designed by educators and/or offered by chef professionals who partner with CAFÉ.

• Enjoy cheese recipes designed by WMMB’s Chef Ambassadors;
• Witness Unilever’s Master Chef Steve Jilleba and his Asian offerings;
• Be impressed with Idaho Potato’s extraordinary potato dishes;
• Have fun with Culinary Institute of America’s Master Chef Fritz Sonnenschmidt as he wows you with Alaskan seafood dishes;
• Be introduced to the world of antipasto components from American Roland Foods;
• Find out why Barilla’s corporate chef can design pasta dishes that are both healthy and delicious;
• And discover how fried foods can be not only delicious but good for you with items prepared in soy oil (Qualisoy)

Best of all!!!  CAFÉ offers you an open bar during the reception, featuring local wines and beers and a signature cocktail from the Sweet Cherries Association!

Join us at the opening night reception and have fun sampling these dishes and meeting educators from all over the world!

Have you seen May's issue of The Gold Medal Classroom?

Check it out as well as the CAFÉ endorsed Lesson Plans offered by Hass Avocados.  Our Review Panel gave a thumbs up to these Lesson Plans as being excellent classroom resources. Read your FREE issue of GMC.

Also new on the www.CafeMeetingPlace.com website is information on the Maple Leaf Recipe Contest. 

This Week's Featured Master Class

The WMMB Master Class in Providence will demonstrate how attendees can teach cheesemaking in a jar!  Following that exercise, participants will taste local beers and pair them with a delicious variety of Wisconsin Cheeses.

The class is offered on Thursday afternoon, June 23rd  and is included in your Leadership Conference registration.  Limited to 20 participants!