Whats Cooking with the Best Teen Chef in America?
(ARA) – For 17-year-old high school senior Anthony Tabb, the hours spent in the family kitchen watching his dad and grandmother cook has paid off in a big way. Anthony is this year’s winner of The Art Institutes National Culinary Scholarship Competition and the official title of “Best Teen Chef in America.” Open to high school students from all over the country, the cook-off offers more than $180,000 in scholarships to The Art Institutes Culinary Arts programs. According to recent statistics, the number of high school students entering culinary school is on the rise, and with good reason, says Joseph Shilling, a chef director for The Art Institutes and a judge at this year’s cook-off. “There’s a rosy job market in the food service industry predicted through the year 2006,” he says. At this year’s event, 24 students participated in a grueling two-hour cook-off, preparing a menu of tenderloin of beef, crab cakes and Caesar salad under the watchful eyes of six judges, including three mast
