Kitchen crafts

After a year of careful planning and preparation, the Institute for Culinary Arts de La Salle materialized and opened this month. This culminated after a meeting last year of Dr. Elsie Coscolluela, Elsa Streegan and Chef Richard Ynanyan, on the possibility of opening one in La Salle-Bacolod.

It boasts of a state-of-the-art kitchen where “one on one” cooking is encouraged. The ICA building was completed last November, and on November 12 the media was invited to a press conference followed by a lunch prepared by the chef and the Hospitality Management students of the University. On Nov. 16, the ICA opened with members of Hotel and Resto Association of Bacolod attending, social civic and political leaders, local chef such as Chef BJ Uy, famous Aboy and Chef Ritchie Garcia, among them.

Executive chef Richard Bungas of Sugarland, a graduate of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, Vancouver, will be one of the instructors while another is Richard Ynayan of the French Culinary Institute and Executive Chef of Q-Bistro Manila and Diploma in Culinary Arts Program – The Institute of Culinary Institute.

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