Becoming a Team Member
“ACF Culinary Team USA Tryouts are not a venue in which to
learn for first-time competitors. This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity and experience that moves careers to new levels,” said
ACF Culinary Team Manager Steve Jilleba, CMC, CCE, AAC, corporate
executive chef at Unilever Foodsolutions, Lisle, Ill. “Experience
and knowledge in the craft of cookery at a skilled level is essential,
as is being able to produce garde manger food and hot cuisine at the
highest possible.”
Each chef competing at the tryouts must display a high level of
craftsmanship based on solid classical cooking principles and a variety
of cooking disciplines incorporating current and modern trends in
presentation, technique and taste. Not only will the candidates be
evaluated on their skill sets, but personality, teamwork, attitude and
other factors are considered when selecting the final team members.
Those chefs passing the cold-food tryouts will move on to the
hot-food tryouts.