Sierra Nevada Job Corps students compete in San Francisco

Three students from Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center (SNJCC) recently travelled to San Francisco to compete in the Regional Food Expo Competition. The students represented Nevada’s Job Corps program in the competition between students from 13 Job Corps centers on the West coast.

The competition featured two components - knowledge and skill. The knowledge portion included a written test and a Jeopardy-style team question and answer segment. The skill portion includes a knife skill demonstration where students demonstrated and identified basic cuts. They were also required to fillet a fish and piece of tenderloin and prepare a whole chicken into eight cuts.

The top winners from the cooking component then faced off in a “mystery basket” challenge to determine the champion. Much like television’s Iron Chef America, students were given a basket of unknown ingredients and asked to create a meal from the elements they are given.

The Sierra Nevada students competed at San Francisco’s Treasure Island Job Corps Center.

Chef Ed Watts, the SNJCC culinary instructor said, “They are a very cohesive team, even working on the weekends and their own time to study. It is such a pleasure to have such a great team of students competing.”

(Posted 12/10/09)

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