April 25, 2024

Chef enjoys the beauty of carving

BY AUSTIN WELLS Philippe Saraiva is a man of many talents, but is an artist first and foremost. In the winter, when he isn’t working at Conestoga’s Waterloo campus as a chef and culinary teacher, he passes his time at ice carving competitions. “As faculty here at Conestoga, it takes quite a bit of my time during the week, but during wintertime I need to release a bit of steam … Continued

Small kitchen, big dreams

BY MATT LINSEMAN Dinner was a piece of cake for second-year Conestoga College culinary students at the Rising Stars event at the Kitchener Market on March 17. Throughout March and April, aspiring chefs from the college are hosting themed pop-up dinners at the Kitchener Market. This is a chance for culinary students to showcase exciting menus in a variety of themes like Asian street food, southern BBQ, East Coast seafood … Continued

Get yourself Homefed

BY BRUCE CHESSELL Have you ever been hungry, longing for a home-cooked meal but you are sorely lacking any of the essential ingredients required to make anything close to edible? College students have long struggled with  food, never having it, not knowing how to prepare it or just being too lazy to actually cook it. Conestoga integrated marketing communications student Eugene Petrov is helping James Mclean and Steven Wang launch … Continued