Press Room

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Michael Garbin, CEC, AAC, president of ACF Windy City Professional Culinarians, presents an appreciation award to Hervé This, director of the INRA (Molecular Gastronomy Group) at the Laboratory for chemistry on molecular interactions, at the Collège de France, Paris. Mr. This presented on molecular gastronomy to Chicago-area culinarians as a guest of ACF WCPC at the Union League Club on April 14.

Photo by B. Frei.

(l. to r.) David Russell, CEC, AAC (left), vice president of ACF's Central Region; John Kinsella, CMC, AAC, president of ACF; Matthew Southard, executive chef of Prestwick Country Club, Frankfort, Ill., and the Central Region's 2007 ACF Chef of the Year; and Steven Jilleba, CMC, CCE, AAC, corporate executive chef of Unilever Foodsolutions, sponsor of the ACF Chef of the Year Award. Southard, who received his award in March, will represent the Central Region of ACF at the 2007 ACF National Chef of the Year competition in Orlando in July.

Photo by B. Frei.

David Russell, CEC, AAC (left), vice president of ACF's Central Region, congratulates Michael Artlip, CEC, CCE, chairman of the associate of applied science (AAS) culinary-arts degree program, Kendall College, Chicago, for winning the Central Region's 2007 ACF Educator of the Year Award.

Artlip will compete for the 2007 ACF National Educator of the Year Award in Orlando in July.

Photo by B. Frei.