Cook-off chance for students to show skills in kitchen
How about noshing on buffalo meatballs, bruschetta, bacon-wrapped water chestnuts, bannock, pork souvlaki, and perogies for lunch?
These were just a few of the tasty morsels students in Grades 10, 11 and 12 in North Battleford Comprehensive High School’s commercial cooking program dished out to guests attending the school’s Taste of Food Banquet cook-off Thursday. The students combined their passion and hard work to make a full-course dinner served in bite sizes for a large group of people, as part of their semester’s final project. According to their instrucotr, the outcome couldn’t be tastier.
“It’s a really good learning opportunity going through this motion,” Teacher Janice Staff said. “In this program they have to design a menu. Then, the big final project is to create a menu to feed about 250 people. Each student has to do that. It’s really amazing to see the work ethic of some of these students.”
The event was also a fundraiser, Staff said, and all the money raised will be going to the Kids First charity.