Wong Pushes Culinary Excellence
By Erika Engle (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Alan Wong
Honolulu chef and restaurateur Alan Wong is just back from New York where he and a host of culinary glitterati selected the winner of the 2010 Bocuse d’Or USA Competition at the Culinary Institute of America.
Winner James Kent, from New York, will represent the United States at the Bocuse d’Or International Culinary Competition – the Olympics for chefs – in Lyon, France, a year from now. ….”Imagine if Hawaii was to produce a Bocuse d’Or finalist,” he said. “Even if they didn’t win, having a couple young culinarians from Hawaii raises the level of the next generation, because when you want to compete on that kind of a high level, you will get better and bring the people underneath you up, too. It can only be good, a win-win,” he said.
