valuable experience it gives to contestants, the national competition’s 2017 panel included some of the country’s most successful chefs. New to the judging panel this year was Michelin-star chef Nathan Outlaw, who previously worked with television chef and seafood expert Rick Stein. The day prior to the competition, Nathan provided the teams with a masterclass on Seafood and was on hand at the final to provide expert culinary advice alongside Franck Pontais, chef author, Serge Nollent, executive development chef at Young’s and Nikki Hawkins, events manager at Seafish. Prizes included £500 for each team member, a Thermomix TM31 food processor and a £1,000 voucher for Kendal College to spend on Russums catering equipment. Nathan Outlaw also gave each finalist a personalised signed cook book and sponsors Koppartcress invited the winning team on an allexpenses paid trip to Holland to see where their products are grown. William Bolsover commented on winning the competition, he said: “We are absolutely delighted to have won the competition. We’ve been practising and preparing to get here and we’re really happy with how we performed, especially in the newly introduced invention test.” Niall Frith added: “We are passionate about seafood and have worked hard to get here so are thrilled to have won. We can’t wait to go to Holland to learn more about the produce
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