Made It Through Mum

The country's long-running campus-based culinary search, Jolly University (JU) recently concluded its Year 4 Grand Cook-Off and Congress. Chef Wilson and DJ Jamie Fournier hosted the event Now on it's fourth year, Jolly University offered student participants an unforgettable experience to develop their culinary, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills as future culinary and industry leaders. A program designed to empower the youth, JU fosters industry-ready competitiveness, as well as, cooperative relationships among students and institutions in promoting culinary excellence and business innovation.  The steep and well-fought encounter was held at the Le Pavilion Tent in Pasay City last March 3, 2017. 120 elite finalists pulled out their best and most creative JOLLY-inspired dishes to clinch the coveted titles in four categories :  1. Individual Category - featured Luzon Cuisines made easy, healthy and baon-ready 2. Team Main Dish Category -Visa...

Kicking off the first leg of JU Year 4 is the Bootcamp workshop series conducted recently at the Center for Culinary Arts, Manila. The guest speakers, CCA faculty Chef-preneur Jonvic Mangibin and award-winning Chef Kerwin Funtanilla, shared their real-world expertise to the JU elite finalists as they explored various fundamentals on Food Presentation & Food Safety and Sanitation, and Conceptualizing & Preparing their Competition Dish. To fine-tune their cooking skills in preparation for the JOLLY University Grand Cook-Off, a Market Basket-style cooking challenge was conducted wherein each Individual Category finalist was assigned to one of four “houses” (Culinary Champions, Gastronomic Guru, Kitchen Kings, and Meal Masters) headed by top CCA Manila students who served as their mentors.  The dish entries were graded based on presentation, taste, innovation/creativity, food safety/ sanitation, green chefmanship and use/integration of JOLLY food products as mandat...