Culinarians to Battle in Kosher ‘Iron-Chef’ Competition

The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts — the world’s only professional Kosher Culinary Arts school, will be co-producing for the third straight year the Kosher “Iron-Chef” culinary competition. Three top chefs will have thirty minutes to cook one entrée from scratch using only a basket of mystery ingredients and a limited pantry of basic staples. The winner will take home a cash prize of $1000.

The event will take place at the Kosherfest Expo in the Meadowlands Exposition Center on October 30th.

CKCA’s involvement in the Iron-Chef Kosherfest competition has helped to legitimize the event and develop a culinary arts component that was previously absent from the show. Professionally trained chefs from some of the kosher world’s top establishments now cook live in an “Iron Chef” style competition in front of an audience of industry professionals, foodies, and fans. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Kosherfest, this year’s competition will highlight products representative of the kosher food industry, then and now.

This years competitors are: Casey Colaneri, Executive Chef of the Sushi Metsuyan restaurants in Monsey and Teaneck, Jose Soto, Executive Chef, Basil Restaurant in Brooklyn and David Teyf, Chef & Owner, Lox Café at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.

This year’s competition will feature best selling cookbook author and Joy of Kosher founder Jamie Geller as host. Geller recently published a new cookbook: Joy of Kosher; Fast, Fresh Family Recipes and will be touring the area in promotion of it’s release. The competition will be sponsored once again by Jack’s Gourmet Sausages, an innovative kosher meat company who made waves last year with the introduction of a high quality, surprisingly authentic bacon substitute made from beef called “facon.”  Great Kosher Restaurants Magazine will be sponsoring the videography for the event.

The competition will also feature a panel of three distinguished judges who will score the chefs’ work on presentation, taste and creativity in order to determine the 1st prize winner.

This year’s judges are:

Philippe Kaemmerle, Chef and Instructor at The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts,
Jack Silberstein, Owner, Jack’s Gourmet Sausages
Roberta Scher, Co-founder and Managing Editor of Koshereye.com.

The winner of the competition will be announced at Kosherfest, upon the presentation of the trophy and $1000 cash prize.

The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts (CKCA) of Brooklyn, New York, is the worldwide destination for those seeking culinary education in an uncompromised kosher environment. Over 400 professional training students have traveled to study at CKCA from all across the US and from countries as far away as Australia, Panama, Mexico, the UK, Italy, and Canada.

CKCA is currently the only kosher cooking school in the world, offering career training in culinary and pastry arts.  Intensive courses are taught by highly experienced professionals who have been working and instructing in the culinary field for many years.

CKCA’s commitment to excellence in Kosher Culinary Arts is reflected this year’s adding of an additional 60 hours of training to the existing culinary and pastry curriculum thus providing more hands on time than the most Culinary schools nation-wide.

CKCA also offers recreational hands-on cooking, baking, and cake decorating classes for all ages and experience levels.

The CKCA chefs are also available for on-site demonstrations, private cooking classes and personal chefs for hire.

For more information about CKCA visit www.kosherculinararts.com or contact by phone at 718.758.1339 or by email at info@kosherculinaryarts.com.

Photos from last year’s event:

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