ACF Local Hosts: George Hill – Dale Lyman - Mark Agius
Competition date: Tuesday 23rd September 2008
Competition venue – Address: William Angliss Institute – 555 La Trobe Street Melbourne
Competition start time 8 AM for menu planning 11 AM start cooking competition
Kitchen / Taste judges: Peter Wright - Peter Di Pino – Glenn Austin
Taste judges:  To be announced
Presentation Time/ Venue : - Nestle Function - Details to be announced
George Hill - Chairman of judges

The “Nestlé Golden Chefs Hat Award” has been conducted and sponsored by Nestlé for over twenty years. The competitor’s mission is to produce four entrees, four main courses and four sweets from a "black box" of ingredients incorporating 5 Nestlé products in the recipes. The chefs of Australia salute Nestlé for their support and assistance in the development of young apprentice cooks and chefs in Australia. Click on the Nestlé logo above to see competition details.

The Australian Culinary Federation coordinates the competition in all states in Australia. In 2007 the competition attracted 218 entrants. 67 industry experts and chefs formed panels from across Australia to judge the competition.

Watch the progress of the competition - Details will be added as region competitions are conducted

George Hill's Websites:

salonculinaire.com  A complete web resource for chefs  that incorporates, professional chef quizzes, a chefs forum, directory of resources and the "Worlds First Virtual Salon Culinaire" that has attracted competitors from over twenty nations.

salonculinaire.com/community A web forum with over 300  registered chefs members, Salonculinaire community of chefs is now the largest web network of "who is who" chefs in Australia. Salon Culinaire community of chefs is intended to be a stimulating and educational resource and a platform for professional debate on issues that interest those associated with the professional cookery.

Membership of the community of chefs is free - Minimum requirements to join - Evidence that you are a cook/ chef or student cook/chef  and you must register with your full name name - title and location. Read reasons for this http://salonculinaire.com/denied.htm

Our statistics show an average of 80 chefs visit one of George Hill's above websites a day

In 2007 "Debates" in salonculinaire.com attracted over 40 thousand readers. Salonculinaire.com has been instrumental in the development of the "Australian Culinary Code of Practices"  and The proposed "Emerging Leaders and Professional Chefs - Mentors Program"