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Amanda Competing

AUI Corporate Pastry Chef Amanda Haba trained for months to compete at the 2011 National Pastry Team Championship, and on July 9th all her preparations paid off. Chef Haba earned the "Best Sugar Showpiece" award while competing on Team Gallego, which took the silver medal overall.

 

Amanda's teammates on Team Gallego were former AUI assistant pastry chef Courtney Goldian (currently the Corporate Pastry Chef at Founding Farmers Restaurant in Washington, D.C.) and Executive Pastry Chef Naomi Gallego (Team Captain) of the Fairmont Pittsburgh; the team was coached by Chef Bill Foltz of L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort. Team Gallego is only the second all-female team to ever compete at the National Pastry Team Championship.

 
This years competition theme was "Your Favorite Book", Team Gallego chose Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as their inspiration. The sugar showpiece created by Chef Haba was inspired by the mad hatter's tea-party, Chef Gallego's chocolate showpiece was inspired by the Queen of Hearts, and Chef Goldian's bonbons, desserts and entremets were inspired by multiple chapters from the book.

 

Want to read more about the competition? Stop by our AUI blog to read the full article.

 

Want to see more images from the competition? Our Flickr page has plenty to see here and here.

Championship Collage

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