Hunter’s Country House represents SA in Culinary World Cup

Tanja Kruger, Head Chef at the five star Hunter’s Country House, Plettenberg Bay, part of the prestigious Hunter Hotels Group, has been selected as one of only eight Chefs in South Africa to participate in the Culinary Team SA’s Culinary World Cup, recognised as one of biggest culinary competitions in the world, taking place in November in Luxembourg.

The participating team will compete in a hot kitchen competition as well as a cold table, which includes tapas, a festive platter, individual starters, main courses and dessert. For the hot kitchen, participants will be graded on practices, knife skills, ingredients, balance in the menu, presentation, taste and whole lot more. The judging for the cold table consists of presentation and taste. The Chefs will be given one hour to set up the hot kitchen and thereafter embark on their cooking journey where they are required to prepare 105 three course meals.

States Head Chef, Tanja Kruger: “It’s an incredible honour to be selected to represent your own country and I know all of the team will fly the South African flag with pride.”

Other participating team members include Henrico Grobbelaar as Captain, Kevin Miller (Pastry), HD Fraser, Peter Gyorgyicsek (Show Piece/Pastry), Roberto de Carvalho, Nadin Pospech-Demmler and Charl Gyzen.

25 National Teams, 10 National Military Teams, 10 National Junior Teams, 10 Collective Catering Teams and many individual Chefs and Confectioners will compete in this culinary cook off. An international jury composed of professional Chefs from all over the world will judge the various works, which may be awarded a bronze, silver or gold medal. The best teams will be awarded with the Culinary World Cup.

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