APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Five Fox Valley Technical College students won the 2018 American Culinary Federation Student National Championship.
The competition took place last month in New Orleans.
Kirk Reilly, Grace Claussen, Gage Dawiedczyk, Morgan VandenLangenberg and Regina Hueckman competed against four other teams for the title.
Before going to New Orleans, the Fox Valley team won the state title, which included $1,000 from the American Academy of Chefs to assist with travel expenses to the national competition.
The winning menus from Fox Valley Tech included a summer duck platter, pan seared fluke with seafood “chorizo” and an entree featuring lamb loin and tenderloin, braised potato, minted pea puree and sauteed king oyster mushrooms.
More than 1,500 attended the event.
