“Dane wins top cookery contest”

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Dane wins top cookery contest Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:06 PM PDT

AFP/Geneva     Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed emerged the winner in the European leg of the renowned Bocuse d'Or contest yesterday, adding a third win at the competition to his name. The 35-year-old chef impressed judges with a semi-salted halibut in nut butter, served with morel and flowers of spring onions, and a roast veal in Skagen ham, bacon, cranberries and black bread, served with crispy veal sweetbread, white asparagus, wild garlic and horseradish. Kofoed, who owns the Geranium restaurant in Copenhagen, had previously won bronze in 2005 and silver in 2007 in the competition's international edition. Norway's Gunnar Hvarnes came second while Frenchman Jerome Jaegle took third place in the competition which required each team of a chef and an assistant to produce two dishes - a Norwegian halibut and a Swiss veal - in five hours and 35 minutes. Two garnishes were to accompany each dish. Bocuse d'Or, dubbed the Olympic Games of cooking, is named after internationally renowned French chef Paul Bocuse, who was among the founders of the contest. French chefs coaching east European newcomers at the contest cast a critical eye over their protégés. Jean-Luc Rocha, chef at the Chateau Cordeillan-Bages, in the heart of Bordeaux wine country at Pauillac, said the Slovakians he was advising in Geneva "really come from another planet to the others". "Everything they have revolves around potatoes and gnocchi. You can't speak of a gastronomic culture," he added. Slovakia, like Croatia, Estonia, Hungary and Malta, were taking part in the international cooking competition for the first time. Little escaped the eye of Pierre Mathon, a 62-year-old retired French chef, as he kept watch over the Estonian team. "They don't have much in the way of produce there. Their cooks are good technicians," Mathon explained. "But they have a tendency to bow to the product, they don't know how to exploit it, to get the best out of it."

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