Planned Culinary Activities for 2010/2011

Chef Shaun and his team has following activities ready for IMI culinary students beside the normal curriculum. Visit to famous bakery Sutter and "Margos Backstube" who are experts in the arts of Swiss chocolate pastries; Molecular food class with chf guru Stephan Stemminger; Visit the Cheese factory and showroom in area of Luzern; visit famous Swiss liqueur producer Fassbind, Visit of fruit and vegetable carving world champion Mr Xiang Wang and finally guest lecturing of Puratos.

IMI and Cocolino

On September 18 whole Luzern will be about ENJOY FOOD. Within the a swiss nation wide promotion of food Luzern will host a full day of culinary enjoyment under the slogan "Luzern Geniesst" . The entire city celebrates a big culinary feats many activities and booths and of course great food: The "Naschmarkt" on the Bahnhofstrasse, the cheese-festival on the Kapellplatz are just few of them. Of course IMI is part with its students and IMI head Chef Shaun Leonard and will actively support the Cocolino children cooking healthy food with herbs with Chef Oski, who is called the "poet chef" and works together with his partner Oskar Weiss to essentially make more children happy through food and visuals . The 15+ "Chef Kids" will be supported by the whole team of Circle des Chefs de Cuisine Luzern !

Total success at Gastro competition ZAGG

ZAGG is one of Switzerland's success stories: a week gastro fair with ongoing live competitions in culinary and service. For many years ZAGG has been building up an audience of specialists who are interested in gastronomy and food, and is now in its 16th year. ZAGG hosts the European Culinary Challenge, the Swiss Barkeeper Championship and many more exciting exhibitions of culinary talent. As N Schmidiger in the official ZAGG guide wrote: "Chefs become more and more showmasters in the current media. We want to bring it back to where it belongs, a lot of work and a lot of craftsmanship and less of a show!".

The IMI University Centre, one of Switzerland's leading hotel schools shares this philosophy and triumphed at this year's ZAGG event, winning medals at all levels: 3 Golds, 2 Silvers and 1 Bronze.

Kocharena ZAGG competition 2010

Three IMI Culinary students active participating at ZAGG "Kocharena" competition. IMI is proud to announce having 3 culinary students to compete at the prestigious ZAGG culinary competition with Young Siang Kwang and Phua Kok Siang (both Singapore) and Khadijah Amirah Sallehudin (from Malaysia). The Koch Arena is considered THE main spectacle of ZAGG 2010th. Within only one hour, the participants will conjure a main course of fish and shellfish. The audience can watch the chef artists up close and cheer. Hope IMI will get a lot of support from its students and friends. Best be there on competition days Sept 15 & 16

IMI Chef Shaun Leonard competes with Luzern culinary team

Our IMI head chef Shaun Leonard spearheading the Luzern culinary team CCCL Cercle des Chefs de Cuisine  The will compete against Swiss culinary national team and Swiss culinary junior national teams as well as international teams from Italy & Germany, the teams will have to produce a cold display program on a table 3m x 3m . The competition commission demands the highest quality as this competition is seen as the forerunner o the world culinary cup in Luxembourg, where the CCCL will also be in action. You can watch the artists and their creations on the 15th September in the cold presentation arena. More info (d)

Culinary Competition:  Gold and Silver to team under IMI Chef Leonard's lead

Chef Leonard and his team were silver medalist winner at this year's IGEHO culinary competitions, chef Leonard in the team manager of the Cercle des Chef de Cuisine de Luzern culinary team (www.cccl.ch), and together with Chef Schwarzenbach the team captain, the team claimed a silver medal awarded by the Swiss Culinary federation (www.kochverband.ch). Next year the team will organize Gala Dinners with "Stadt de genusse" which is for 2010 in Luzern, as well as taking part in Zagg (Luzern) and Expogast (Luxemburg) culinary competitions. The CCCL also wish to start up a junior Luzern cooking team made up of students, so all those budding culinary talents who are on their way to IMI can also get involved in some high profile competitions and events. More visuals here! Read here the official News from a Swiss newspaper (Neue Luzernern Zeitung) (d)