Here's the article (and a great photo!) by Itta Werdiger-Roth, published on Forward.com.
There is more to cooking than food, three home cooks and passionate foodies discovered on Sunday. The Next Great Kosher Chef competition, the first of its kind, was hosted by The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts. With grueling written and physical parts of a eight-hour competition the heat was definitely on.
The prize: A scholarship to attend the school’s cooking program, valued at $5,000.
Want-to-be contestants first had to send in a short video and a personal essay. Of hundreds, ten were chosen for interviews. Three finalists took part in a televised elimination process. At 8 A.M. Sunday morning they began a written exam, with questions covering a variety of related topics such as “What temperature does water boil in Denver, Colorado? (answer; 203 F because of the different atmospheric pressure of a higher altitude.) A series of five surprise culinary challenges (julienne carrots, scale a fish and whip eggwhites to a stiff peak for example) followed. Then the competition culminated in a cook-off.
Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/133955/#ixzz18CwYM0V2
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