NEXT-GEN CULINARY COMPETITION 2024
TOP STUDENT DESSERT WINNER: SOPHIA LARSEN FROM NORTHWEST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS WINNING $500
TOP STUDENT SAVORY WINNER: PRINZ VILLAGRACIA FROM RANCHO HS ALSO WINNING $500
TOP TEAM OVERALL WINNER: EAST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 1 SAVORY WINNERS: EAST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 1 DESSERT WINNER: EAST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 2 SAVORY WINNERS: WESTERN HS
LEVEL 2 DESSERT WINNERS: LEGACY HS
NEXT-GEN CULINARY COMPETITION 2023
TOP STUDENT WINNER: ANAIZ PEREZ FROM NWCTA HIGHSCHOOL> WINNING $500 CASH
TOP STUDENT RUNNER-UP: JAVIER CARDOZA FROM DESERT PINES HS ALSO WINNING $500
TOP TEAM OVERALL: NORTHWEST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 1 SAVORY: NORTHWEST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 2 SAVORY: CENTENNIAL HS
LEVEL 1 DESSERT: CENTENNIAL HS
LEVEL 2 DESSERT: DESERT PINES HS
NEXT-GEN CULINARY COMPETITION 2022
2022 WINNERS: TOP CHEF STUDENT - RAZELLE ANTIPUESTO - SWCTA. WINNING A CSN $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP, $500 CASH, AND A SUMMER INTERNSHIP AT LETICIA’S COCINA, UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF CHEF LETICIA MITCHELL
TOP TEAM OVERALL – NORTHWEST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 1 - DESSERT, LEVEL 2 - SAVORY AND DESSERT WINNERS—EAST CAREER AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HS
LEVEL 1 - SAVORY WINNERS - CENTENNIAL HS
BATTLE OF THE CULINARY INSTRUCTORS 2021
FLAVORS FOR LIFE HAD ITS FIRST BATTLE OF THE CULINARY INSTRUCTORS ON DECEMBER 4, 2021. THREE INSTRUCTORS PARTICIPATED WITH THEIR SOUS CHEFS, CULINARY STUDENTS FROM CCSD. CHEF MICHAEL HADOBAS FROM SWCTA HS, CHEF CHRISTINA SARGENT, FROM RANCHO HS, AND CHEF MARK SCHOCK FROM DESERT PINES HS. THE COMPETITION WAS CHOPPED STYLE FOR SAVORY AND DESSERT. EACH PARTICIPANT RECEIVED 5 HEALTHY MYSTERY INGREDIENTS FOR EACH CATEGORY. THEY PRESENTED THEIR CREATIONS TO A PANEL OF JUDGES: CHEF HAL DECKER, CHEF MICHELLE VIETMEIER, NUTRITIONISTS AURORA BUFFINGTON AND CHRISTINA SAHEB.
THE WINNER ON BOTH CATEGORIES WAS CHEF MICHAEL HADOBAS!
BATTLE OF THE CHEFS 2021
FLAVORS FOR LIFE ORGANIZED ITS FIRST BATTLE OF THE CHEFS ON APRIL 29, 2021. 12 TALENTED CHEFS PARTICIPATED, THEY HAD TO CREATE A HEALTHY RECIPE, INCLUDING AN IMMUNE BOOSTER INGREDIENT. THIS WAS ANALYZED AND APPROVED BY OUR NUTRITIONISTS. THEY PRESENTED THEIR CREATIONS TO A PANEL OF 4 JUDGES, CHEF GENO BERNARDO, AURORA BUFFINGTON, LISA CHEPLAK, AND CHEF MICHELLE VIETMEIER
PARTICIPATING CHEFS: From left to right, Mitch Laursen, Claire Fisher, Jeremy Jordan, Tony Nguyen, Jessica Osborne, Jose Bermudez, Vince Upperman, Stephen LaSala, Hal Decker, and McKenzie Mayor.
Winners: Chef Stephen LaSala and Chef Jose Bermudez.
Thank you our sponsors: Rescue - The Behavior Change Agency, New Chef, Masterpiece Cuisine, Bayer Family Estates, Smith’s, and The Dairy Council
Flavors For Life GASTRONOMIC AFFAIR 2019
Flavors For Life is a Gastronomic Affair where renown Las Vegas chefs are invited to create a healthy recipe to be approved by the organizations’ nutritionists by meeting strict nutritional guidelines. After the recipe is approved each chef is able to sample its recipe to everybody the day of the event.
This year’s event brought 23 chefs from multicultural cuisines to showcase their culinary talents and compete among each other. In between them, we had chef Geno Bernardo from The Summit Club, chef Alessandra Madeira from Blume, Chef Jainine Jaffer from Shiraz, Chef Donald Lemperle, form Vegenation, and many more. Each attendee, besides enjoying delicious and healthy recipes, wine, and music, they receive two tickets to vote for their top two most delicious recipes. More than 400 votes were counted from all chefs’ buckets. This year’s runner up was chef Gavin Crum from Cut and Taste with his delicious Beef Tataki, and the winner was chef Leticia Mitchell, from Leticia’s Cocina, with her delicious Sopa Poblana, (Poblano Soup).
Flavors For Life Gastronomic Affair also raises funds to support its Next-Gen Culinary Program.
This program focuses on high school students currently enrolled in culinary classes. It is designed to enhance their current curriculum by providing access to workshops increasing their knowledge, skills and motivation to create heart- healthy recipes during their culinary professional career.
Clark County School District culinary students go through five workshops to learn how to cook and eat healthy. They learn about vitamins. Minerals, sodium, hypertension, added sugars, diabetes, fats, cholesterol, portion control and how to read nutritional labels. At the end of the program students participate in a culinary competition. The top team and the top student winners get to participate showcasing their recipes at the Gastronomic Affair. Nine high schools with 21 teams competed this year, the top team was from Northwest Career and Technical Academy HS and the top student from East career and Technical Academy HS.
