Excitement is high at Jacksonville State University today, the hospitality and culinary program is hosting its first
culinary competition.
There are three high schools from the surrounding areas. Albertville High School, Boaz High School, Talladega City School
who are competing for culinary bragging rights. The judges are a chef, a
dietician, a food service manager, and two professors from Jackson State University.
But we are very excited about this event, we want it to be an annual event and
expand it to other high schools across the state.
This is our first time doing this so we're excited about the opportunity. We're excited about the young and upcoming
students.We're looking for some creativity and looking for someone who's really interested in the field of culinary. And
so we look forward to today and doing this again on an annual event.
And what we're really trying to do here today is to
just really get the word out about what we can what we can offer here
and how our culinary program is growing. And just to encourage the students and to get them involved
and just see how fun cooking can be because I think sometimes with the world how it is today,
they kind of you know they don't get it at home
and so you know it's great to kind of learn it here, and so we can offer that here,
and I think people just think family consumer science is just about teaching, but we're so much more than that.
We do of course cooking and always tell them with the 122 class like what other class
can you go to and eat? There's no other class this is it you come in and you cook and you eat it,
it's a fun class.
It's a great department, and we have marvelous teachers.
So we're really just trying to get the word out to let the students know what we're about and gonna have some good food today.
I
teach Culinary Arts at Albertville High School in Albertville, Alabama,
and we were so honored to be invited to the first Invitational at Jacksonville State University and their fax department.
I have three students competing they've been working really hard the past few weeks getting ready for this event,
we have a really strong meeting we're really excited about.
We're just so excited to be invited and to be a part of this event.
