{"id":100198,"date":"2025-03-25T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=100198"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:24:17","slug":"brock-chefs-to-face-off-in-culinary-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/03\/brock-chefs-to-face-off-in-culinary-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock chefs to face off in culinary showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for kitchen dominance is back \u2014 and this year it\u2019s Market Eatery versus Fresh Food Company.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Dining Services\u2019 third annual Battle of the Chefs returns to Fresh Food Company DeCew on Monday, March 31, giving the Brock community the chance to sample two signature dishes and vote for their favourite.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s culinary competition welcomes two special guests: Don of Activities and second-year Concurrent Education student Kleirstin Asuncion will join Market Eatery\u2019s Chef Ron Davis and Chef Angelo Melchiorre, while Don of Activities and second-year Kinesiology student Alyssa Mayville will team up with Fresh Food Company\u2019s Chef Neal Getz and Chef Harland Yeo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited to have Kleirstin and Alyssa participate in this year\u2019s Battle of the Chefs,\u201d says Malcolm Dales, Director of Dining and Conference Services. \u201cMany of our students know the dons and our chefs, so it will be fun to see them team up go head-to-head in a friendly competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis was crowned last year\u2019s victor after more than 300 diners voted for his dish, an outcome he hopes to repeat this year.<\/p>\n<p>The event runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the DeCew dining hall. Non-meal plan holders can pay a special rate of $12 at the door.<\/p>\n<p>To find out about upcoming Dining Services events, follow @BrockDiningServices on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brockdiningservices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> or check out the event schedule on the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/dining-services\/pop-ups-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock Dining Services website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for kitchen dominance is back \u2013 and this year it\u2019s Market Eatery versus Fresh Food Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7484],"tags":[476,8478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100206,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100198\/revisions\/100206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}