Las Vegas Chef Topped Winner In Inaugural Worldwide Delicacies Competition Applying Italian-Style Cheeses From California

Tracy, Calif. – The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) declared the winners of the inaugural World Flavors Culinary Competition, a foodservice party that celebrates the broad software of Genuine California cheese and dairy merchandise in worldwide cuisines. This year’s levels of competition showcased “A Style of Italy,” with a target on acquiring classic and impressive recipes highlighting Italian-design cheese and dairy products from California in two categories: Il Classico and Il Fresco.

Chef Ismaele Romano of Las Vegas, Nev., captured the grand prize in both equally types with his innovative just take on veal lasagna in Il Classico and his progressive eggplant tortino in Il Fresco, using household $10,000 for his efforts. Chefs Gustavo Rios of Calistoga, Calif., and Jose Gutierrez of Las Vegas, Nev., were named runner-up winners and every single obtained $2,500.

The new foodservice competitors featured six expert cooks chosen from an invited team of culinary gurus from during the U.S, who competed for $27,000 in money prizes and recognition as a world-wide culinary chief in a cook dinner-off occasion at the Culinary Institute of The united states at Copia in Napa, Calif. in early November.

The cooks employed Authentic California cheese and dairy merchandise as central elements in two recipes, which ended up common Italian entrees in the Il Classico group and either Italian desserts or appetizers in the Il Fresco category. The cooks and dishes entered bundled:

CHEF	HOMETOWN	IL CLASSICO	IL FRESCO
Ismaele Romano	Las Vegas, Nev.	Costa D’Oro Veal Lasagna *	La La Land Eggplant Tortino *
Gustavo Rios	Calistoga, Calif.	Mushroom Ricotta Gnudi  **	Butterscotch Budino
Jose Gutierrez	Las Vegas, Nev.	Four Cheese Potato Gnocchi	Cheese Aracini **
Jay Adams	San Francisco, Calif.	Hen Parmesan	Ricotta Cake & Mascarpone Crema
Giuseppe Musso	Extended Beach front, Calif.	Capelletti Romagnoli	La Cascata Bianca
Independence Rains	San Francisco, Calif.	Fried Sage & Chantarelles Ricotta Gnocchi	Bloomsdale Spinach Sformato & Fonduta
			* Winner / **Runner up

The function was judged by three nationally regarded cooks, scoring dishes in each and every category centered on taste, innovation, professional viability, and imaginative use of Italian-design cheeses and dairy solutions produced with Authentic California Milk. The judges for the 2022 Worldwide Flavors Culinary Competition have been:

• Nick Barrington, Executive Chef, East Lake Golf Club, and President of the American Culinary Federation, Atlanta Cooks Association
• Neil Doherty, Company Executive Chef – Sr. Director of Culinary Growth, Sysco
• David Kamen, Former Executive Chef, Latest Director – Consumer Engagement, Culinary Institute of The united states (CIA)

“Pizza cooks are pretty common with California cheeses. This occasion was established to provide increased recognition to California’s management in Mozzarella and Italian-style cheese manufacturing to cafe operators and chefs,” explained Mike Gallagher, Business and Marketplace Progress Expert for the CMAB. “This exclusive team of cooks and their dishes genuinely captured the essence of what California cheese can convey to Italian delicacies.”

Aspects about the levels of competition, categories, chefs, and all featured recipes are readily available at https://caglobalcompetition.realcaliforniamilk.com.

California is a reputable, dependable resource of sustainable dairy products and solutions utilized by chefs all over the globe. As the nation’s biggest dairy state, California features an spectacular lineup of award-profitable cheesemakers and dairy processors who are supporting to travel dining innovation. California is the top producer of fluid milk, butter, and ice cream as nicely as Mozzarella, the leading Italian-type cheese for foodservice. California milk and dairy meals can be determined by the True California Milk seal, which certifies they are made solely with sustainably sourced milk from the state’s dairy farm households.

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About True California Milk/the California Milk Advisory Board
The California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), an instrumentality of the California Division of Foodstuff and Agriculture, is funded by the state’s dairy farm family members who lead the country in sustainable dairy farming tactics. With a eyesight to nourish the planet with the healthful goodness of Actual California Milk, the CMAB’s packages emphasis on rising desire for California’s sustainable dairy products and solutions in the state, throughout the U.S. and about the entire world via advertising and marketing, general public relations, research, and retail and foodservice marketing systems.

The Foodservice Division of the CMAB supports foodservice operators and distributors that use Real California dairy merchandise. The CMAB delivers advertising and marketing and advertising aid for foodservice operators that purchase dairy products with the Actual California Milk seal, which signifies they are produced with 100 % milk from California’s more than 1,100 loved ones dairy farms, working with some of the most sustainable dairy techniques in the country.

For a lot more facts on sourcing cheese from California, get hold of the foodservice staff at 209.883.6455 (MILK), [email protected] or RealCaliforniaMilk.com/Foodservice, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.