Scholarship Opportunities:

CCAEF and Asian Chef’s Association Scholarship Contest

Each entrant – a current student of any program offered at the CCA - must develop and submit an Asian cuisine appetizer recipe that may be served at a fund raiser this year for the ACA--along with a supporting essay.

The recipe ingredients should be seasonal, representational, the result easy to eat standing up, appropriate to produce for 300 guests, and of course delicious.  Accompanying the recipe write a 250 word essay about the path your recipe development took—from inspiration to that perfect taste! 

Student entrants must have a GPA of 2.0 or better to qualify; all packages must be submitted via email to info@ccaef.org attention scholarship committee, by (2010 date to be announced).

All packages will be reviewed by a team consisting of CCA faculty, CCAEF and ACA board members. 

The top 5 will be announced (date to be announced) and they will prepare their entry for a panel of judges November 6th, 2008.  The judging panel will again consist of CCA staff, CCAEF and ACA Board Members, and Celebrity Chef’s and community judges. 

The winners of this final evaluation will be scholarship recipients totaling $2,500! 
Placing First: $1,500*
Second: $1,000*
from the Asian Chef’s Association and CCAEF for 2010
  *credited to the student’s CCA tuition account

Judging criteria could consist of:
     - Creativity
     - Techniques (Variety and Difficulty)
     - Cleanliness, sanitation
     - Presentation: flow, color, height, balance, texture
     - Flavor: Coherency,  balance, seasoning, temperature, doneness
     - Adherence to theme

(Specific details will be published prior to the cook-off day).

Good Luck…

From the scholarship committee for the CCA Educational Foundation