A big congratulations to The Ahwahnee’s Percy Whatley, who nabbed the American Culinary Federation‘s Western Region Chef of the Year award last night in Reno, Nevada.
Percy Whatley (photo courtesy Delaware North Companies)
Whatley, who twice competed in the Bocuse d’Or USA, and is training hard for the Certified Master Chef (CMC) exam, began documenting his training for the CMC on Toqueland last month, and has been putting the finishing touches on the next installment of his journal for us. (He was also featured in my Huffington Post piece “The Real Top Chefs” about the largely unknown world of traditional culinary competitions.) We’ll ask him to share a little about this event in his next CMC post as well, if he has any energy left to spare.
– Andrew
