IN a nail-biting cook-off with 54 chefs competing throughout the day, young chefs from the 1 000 Hills Chef School scored two major titles in the Unilever Chef of the Year Competition.
Josh Green won the Junior Chef of the Year category and first runner-up was chef Shaista Anoop, a pastry lecturer at the 1 000 Hills Chef School. This is the second time the local school took first and second place in the competition.
Josh said it was a surreal experience and unexpected, but described it as “the best cook of his life.”
He said, “I almost didn’t enter, I was frustrated at the last minute with how my entry dish was not working out, but I spoke with Chef Jade Benians (principal at 1000 Hills Chef School) and she encouraged me to just go for it.”
The competition was tough and the title was taken by Juan Neethling, the executive chef of Southern Sun Waterfront Hotel in Cape Town.
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