Orlando chefs headed home with honors following the 2010 American Culinary Federation Southeast Regional Conference last
weekend in Birmingham, Ala.
Andreas Proisl, executive pastry chef at Isleworth Country Club, was named Southeast Pastry Chef of the Year and will advance to the national competition in in California in August. It was an easy win for Proisl — he was the only competitor.
Kenneth Bourgoin, chef-instructor at Valencia Community College in Orlando, is a finalist for Chef Educator of the Year. And Roger Newell, culinary arts instructor at Technical Education Center Osceola in Kissimmee, was honored with a President’s Medallion.