The school hotel of Vico Equense wins “Captain Cooking”

The team of the Hotel Managemente School “F. de Gennaro” of Vico Equense (Naples) won in the final held in Sorrento, the first edition of “Captain Cooking“, international inter-school competition of vocational schools for food and wine and the hotel accommodation. Students from 9 schools chosen finalists have ventured on a plate of their choice based on recipes from the community of Italians abroad. The first place it has won a preparation of a pastiera made by the group formed by the chef and professor of Food and Wine, Tommaso De Rosa, and young Simona Federico (team captain), Raffaele Di Donna, Luigi Pio Inserra, Ciro Pirone, Rino Marrazzo, Stanislao Stellino and Antonio Tortora. The success was decreed by the jury composed of the president Paolo Gramaglia, Michelin guide 2015, and the other chef, Alfonso Caputo, Raffaele Vitale, Luigi Cippitelli and Renato Contillo . The purpose of the contest is to connect “distant friends” with young people who want to build a profession in Italy. ”Our emigrants – unless Salvo Iavarone says that with Asmef (Association of South and future) has promoted the initiative – they have been expressed by various countries and indicated the recipes that especially carry in their hearts. And the students of hotel schools have ventured into the kitchen”. In particular, they have been developed or reinvented traditional recipes using local produce in the name of the food and wine culture understood as the identity of a territory, unbreakable thread that links the past and the future. The recipes presented will now be ideally collected from cruise ships. But the goal is also to create an opportunity to enter the world of work. Up for grabs for the victory there was a three-month internship in a major restaurant in the province of Naples. ”We want to – say the promoters – give the kids a chance to get in touch with important and established realities of Campania, with a view to international mobility”. After the semi-finals held in Battipaglia (Salerno) were nine finalists institutions of Lioni (Avellino), Torre del Greco (Na), Naples, Sant’Arsenio (Salerno), Battipaglia (Salerno), Ottaviano (Na), Benevento, and the “de Gennaro” of Vico Equense (Na), which won the first place.