Carly Yezzo Helps SUNY Delhi Culinary Team Take First Place

2017 Nov 14

SUNY Delhi culinary major Carly Yezzo's team took first place in the student category at the 14th Annual Veteran's Support Network Military Culinary Competition in Washington, D.C. The event celebrated culinary professionals in the United States military in a head-to-head competition.

Yezzo competed against culinary professionals representing The White House, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of Homeland Security Executive Dining Room, Coast Guard Headquarters, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Reactors Headquarters and Naval War College, Chief of Naval Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Commander, Atlantic Region, United States Coast Guard, Air Force Combined Command, and Marine Corps Commandant. In the last round of the professional competition, Team Delhi came out in 5th place.

Yezzo attended educational workshops and networking events a day prior to the competition.

The team's travel to Washington, D.C. was funded by the International Food Services Executives Association Kae de Brent Hodges Scholarship Fund.

SUNY Delhi's Culinary Arts programs offer graduates a firm foundation from which to start their careers as professionals. Students can choose from a variety of specialized courses depending on their interest or direction in the field, including advanced meat cutting, culinary competition, advanced pastries and confections, and culinary sculpting, a course in which students learn to sculpt 300-pound ice blocks made in the campus lab. A capstone course, Signatures by Candlelight, gives students the experience of operating a full-service, fine dining restaurant that is open to the public.

The Culinary Arts programs are part of SUNY Delhi's award-winning hospitality offerings. Delhi offers two- and four-year degree programs in Hotel and Resort Management, Restaurant and Foodservice Management, Event Management, and Culinary Arts.

For more information about SUNY Delhi's Culinary Arts programs, visit www.delhi.edu.