Chef’s Academy launched in Seychelles
(Posted 14th October 2015)
Mr. Claude Narain, the Patron of the Seychelles Tourism Academy officially launched the Constance Ephelia Chef Academy on Wednesday 08th of October at the Constance Ephelia Seychelles. This is an initiative of the Executive Chef at Ephelia, Nicolas Baube and has the aim of promoting and developing the Seychellois culinary talent within the industry whilst at the same time promoting Constance Ephelia as the culinary reference centre in the Seychelles for training and development of people in turn improving the image of Constance Hotels in Seychelles. The target for this training are the Certificate in Food Preparation and Culinary Arts students from STA, the Seychelles Tourism Academy who do two days of theory at the school and four days of practical within the industry. This Chef Academy is the first of its kind to be officially launched in the Seychelles and the students will benefit from the tutelage of all the Chefs de Cuisines at Constance Ephelia Seychelles.
The Patron of STA, short for the Seychelles Tourism Academy commended the fact that there were 9 young ladies out of the fifteen trainee Chefs who are part of this new training programme. He made his expectations clear that he hopes that more girls are attracted to study Food preparation and Culinary Arts and that we may eventually have more female Executive Chefs in the Seychelles.
The Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture Mr. Alain St.Ange welcomed such an ingenuity and commended Constance Ephelia Seychelles. He also placed emphasis on the Seychelles Tourism Academy to keep on building strong partnership which the local hotels as this is what will make the academy prosper. He explained that STA, the Seychelles Tourism Academy alone cannot nurture students to meet the needs of the hotel industry. ‘We need the hotels to assist their Tourism Academy in the learning process of the students’ said Minister St.Ange. Both Mr. Claude Narain and the Minister Alain St.Ange stressed on the fact that learning is a never-ending process.
All invited guests were invited for a buffet of all the delicacies that the students had learnt to prepare during their internship at the Constance Ephelia Seychelles.
