Competition: Win a signed copy of Sven Elverfeld's book

The Staff Canteen
Sven Elverfeld has been chef de cuisine for almost 15 years at Aqua Restaurant, situated within Aqua_Kaisergranat & Jungschweinebauch vom Holzkohlegril credit Gotz Wrage Ritz carlton WolfsburgThe Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany, which was awarded with its third Michelin star in the Guide Michelin 2009. Having started his culinary career in 1985 as a pastry chef apprentice at a confectionery/pastry shop in a small village close to Frankfurt for three years, his philosophy of “Attain your goal with commitment and love for detail” has proved successful; as he was awarded the highest award in the Michelin Guide since November 2008 when he became the first three-star chef in northern Germany. Aqua_Rindertartar a la Borschtsch credit Gotz Wrage Ritz carlton WolfsburgWe also featured him as our Featured Chef which you can see here along with our videos with him where he creates some of those famous dishes as well as talking about his career.

We’re giving you the chance to win a signed copy of his book and all you have to do is tweet us @Canteentweets : “I'm in #Aqua #featuredchef”

The winner will be drawn at random from a hat and you have seven days to enter with the competition starting Sunday 24th August at 8am until Sunday 31st August until 12:00am. T&C's apply and can be seen here.
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Editor 22nd August 2014

Competition: Win a signed copy of Sven Elverfeld's book