TEF hosts Culinary Ambassador Training Session for local Taste of the Caribbean competitors

Jamaica Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett (seen left in the main photo), greets sibling chefs Suzanne and Michelle Rousseau (right) ahead of the ‘Let’s Talk Food’ Culinary Ambassador Training Session with the Rousseau sisters, hosted by the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) and the Tourism Linkages Network.

The workshop was for Junior Culinary ambassadors and select members of the Culinary Federation of Jamaica before they compete in the annual Taste of the Caribbean competition, which will be taking place June 21-25, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Miami. The event took place on Thursday May 9, 2019 at the Summerhouse of the Liguanea Club in Kingston.

In the above photo, Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (right) and Chairperson of the Tourism Enhancement Fund’s Gastronomy Network, Mrs. Nicola Madden-Grieg, present an official chef jacket and other tokens to the 2018 Chef of the Year, Steveray Smith of the HEART Trust NTA Leap Campus.

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