A winning feast by Lankans at IKA Culinary Olympics
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Winners all: The 28 Lankan chefs who participated and (right) one of them works on her creation
26 Gold Medals, 22 Silver Medals and 8 Bronze Medals!
That was the grand total that team Sri Lanka brought home from the IKA Culinary Olympics held in Stuttgart, Germany last month, one of the gastronomic highlights of the 2020 world culinary calendar.
All this from the 28 local chefs, including four female chefs plus four officials for the event who took part, their participation organised by the Chefs Guild of Lanka.
Chef Gerard Mendis also had the distinction of serving on the panel of judges.
The IKA Culinary Olympics is the international culinary festival par excellence. Over 2,000 cooks from around 60 nations participated in this year’s event, preparing food and presenting it within a given time frame in the respective categories. Around 25,000 visitors visited the ‘Messe Stuttgart’.
The IKA Culinary Olympics is the most important international culinary competition for chefs. For four days they could actually witness the elite of the worldwide chefs’ network, do their best to satisfy the palates of judges and guests alike.
“It’s certainly an extraordinary moment for Team Sri Lanka. We were better than ever before and fulfilled our dream of winning big this time,” said Chairman of the Chefs Guild Lanka Chef Gerard Mendis, the pioneer who won a Gold medal at the Culinary Olympics in 1988.