Focus on TUSD - June 2007

Catalina Culinary Students Win Scholarships
Culinary students at Catalina Magnet High School have been eating up all the awards they received.

The three seniors who qualified for the finals in the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-Cap) all won scholarships or prizes. Alfonso Mendoza won $23,000 from the Professional Culinary Institute, Doug Jack won $1,000 that can be used in the Chef Apprenticeship Program, plus a $400 knife kit, and Rhett Bachir, who is going into the military, received a $400 knife kit.

In the finals, students prepared Chicken Chasseur, which is a browned and oven-baked chicken breast with a tarragon mushroom sauce and tourneed potatoes, plus fresh fruit tarts.

In the semi-final February competition, students prepared a French strawberry omelet and a Southwest appetizer, which was mixed vegetables presented inside a ring of cucumber slices. Students were required to memorize the recipes and practice before the competition.

C-Cap offered after-school workshops during the school year. As one of the two major culinary competitions for Catalina students, C-Cap offers the most scholarships, said Connie Campbell, who works with the culinary program at Catalina.

Since 1988, the Catalina culinary program has received $262,120 in scholarships for students from C-Cap and FCCLA, which stands for Family, Careers and Community Leaders of America.

-- By Sharon Dunham
Communications & Media Relations

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