Dietary Team Attends Fort Mill Culinary Show Bringing Home Silver Medal
HUDSON – AMOREM Dietary team members, Tina Avery and Jason Markland recently attended a culinary clinic hosted by Premier and US Foods in Fort Mill, South Carolina, where they received a silver medal for their achievements in the clinic’s cooking competition.
Avery and Markland, who work within AMOREM’s patient care units' commercial kitchens, attended the clinic and learned to cut down waste, cost and labor during the food making process. AMOREM’s dietary duo has implemented plans in their commercial kitchen based on the knowledge that they gained from the clinic to ensure efficient and quality food for AMOREM’s patients and families.
“Using the skills that we learned through the clinic, Jason and I plan on creating a ‘food waste pyramid’ and a ‘choose your own meal day’ to make sure that we are wasting as little food as possible,” Avery says.
Along with valuable lessons to bring to AMOREM kitchens, Avery and Markland competed in a mock Chopped competition at the US Foods facility in Fort Mills. Avery and Markland received a mystery ingredient basket and were required to formulate a meal using the secret ingredients.
“We most certainly received the hardest basket of ingredients,” exclaimed Markland.
Despite the challenge of creating a meal on the fly, Markland and Avery put their creative minds together and formulated a Philly steak quinoa bowl. The creative streak from both Markland and Avery led them to receive a silver medal.
“This was truly an amazing learning experience, and it was all made possible by AMOREM investing in their staff,” says Avery.
Avery intends to attend clinics regularly with the dietary team so that they continue to bring quality food to AMOREM’s patients and families in the most efficient, low-waste, way. Markland and Avery are eager to further their education in the kitchen, gain access to new recipe concepts and to compete once again.
“Next year we’re bringing home the gold!”, Markland bantered.