MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT
Gary Fuller, CCE CEC AAC
November 2010
Wow! What a night we all had, tasting 24 different, delicious and creative crab cakes in our 1st "Best of the Pacific Northwest event, with Gold Sponsors Ocean Beauty Seafoods and Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission providing all our Dungeness Crab of the competition. Other sponsors served up some of their fantastic Northwest Seafoods, thank you Taylor Shellfish with their sweet succulent oysters, Crimson Cove with their smoked nuts, salmon and cheeses, Western Foodservice Marketing with their clams and chowder and Two Snooty Chefs smoked salmon corn chowder.
A special thanks to all judges and volunteers. Judges were: Jeffery Stern Muckleshoot Casino Perry Mascitti Tulalip Casino Kim Berto Poulsbo Central Market Jermey Bryant Seattle Mariners Bruce Bryant Food Enthusiast Kathy Bryant Food Enthusiast Elsa Kush Food Enthusiast
Student volunteers were from Puget Sound & West Sound Tech Skills Centers and Lake Washington Technical College they all did a great job helping out. Our competition was held at the Le Cordon Bleu School where professionals, students and food enthusiasts competed. Here are the winners. 
Erol Kunmaz 1st Place Professional
Sous Chef Timberline Lodge
Mt. Hood, Oregon
Dustin Buckholtz 1st Place Student
West Sound Technical Skills Center
Bremerton, Washington 
Ralph Pesnecke 1st Food Enthusiast Resort Manager Timberline Lodge
Mt. Hood, Oregon
Hosting our event, Gene Fritz, Director at the Le Cordon Bleu, and Robert Mullins helped coordinate. Thank you both for all your help, it is appreciated by all in attendance. I would like to express my gratitude to five of our key members that helped make this event a special one to remember, thank you Dan Lewark CEC, CCA, ACE, Tony Parker CEC, ACE, Kevin Blaylock CEC, Janet Shaffer CWPC and Matthew DiMeo CC.
Next month's meeting on November 8th is an educational meeting with Chef Bob Mauer at Bargreen Ellingson in Tacoma. Bob is going to have some hands-on demonstrations showing off his selections of high tech cooking equipment. This should be a great learning experience for student and chefs. Please join us and make your reservation early. There is limited space available. All proceeds will go to our educational foundation for our scholarship funds. Visit the WSCA Meetings page to make a reservation.
Students don't forget Darrell Anderson Scholarship for $1,000.00
Application Deadline: November 15th, 2010
Scholarship will be awarded on December 13th, 2010 See the WSCA Scholarships page for details.
Our annual election is in November, come and vote for your board of directors and officers.
I hope to see you all in November.
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Gary Fuller CEC CCE AAC
Washington State Chefs Association Website
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