Essential Cuisine advertorial: Teamwork in the Kitchen

Teamwork is everything in the kitchen. And, whether you’re a brigade of two or 22, everyone knows that the best plates of food and the most harmonious, hard working kitchens stand or fall on the skill of the team and not the individual. That’s why the Essential Cuisine team is backing your brigade. So many brands in foodservice are great at lauding single chefs yet fewer recognise the skill and camaraderie of the family unit. We know that chefs value these relationships above anything else, and, with over 50 years of kitchen experience to call upon at Essential Cuisine, so do we. With teamwork top of mind, we recently exhibited at Hotelympia 2014, devising and sponsoring a very special chef challenge at Salon Culinaire. Staged on Hotelympia’s Live Theatre, ‘Teamwork in the Kitchen’ was a unique, two-person competition inviting junior chefs (under 23) to pair with experienced fellow chefs from the same brigade. To succeed, the teams had to work in tandem to create inspiring meat, fish and vegetarian main courses using our premium quality range. We’re proud to announce that Louise Roberts and Prezmo Wrzesinski from Lexington Catering were declared as the winning team, wowing judges including Salon Director, James Tanner with a stunning mix of dishes. The pair’s meat dish consisted of pan-fried cannon of lamb shoulder and goats cheese tortellini, celeriac puree, with lamb and rosemary sauce, using Essential Cuisine Premier Lamb Jus. Next, Louise and Prezmo created a fish dish of roasted tranche of turbot, braised baby gem and peas, sautéed ratte’s and lobster bisque, using our flavourful, crustaceous Lobster Glace. The duo’s final vegetarian main course was lemon and mint crème fraiche, using our best-selling Vegetable Stock. In the wake of the triumph, Louise, 20, conveyed