Author Archives: marcobahena

I clearly remember the night I found out I wanted to compete in the San Pellegrino competition.  I was watching the San Pellegrino Almost famous event through the live stream at home.  I didn’t know much about it other than that Brian from Kendall was competing.  I meticulously watched the awards ceremony in awe. TheContinue reading “The road to San Pellegrino”

So its been a week after getting back from the San pellegrino competition and just now has everything really started to settle down.  Ive finally got a little time after finishing the presentation part to the big capstone project at school, so I come back to blog.  I probably wont get it all done tonight,Continue reading “wow”

So this next competition was quite a big one.  It was essentially an international Tapas competition that was put on by the International Culinary School of Valladolid.  It is a school in Valladolid Spain that has not been built yet, but looks very promosing.  The competition consisted of  15 students from all over the worldContinue reading “Vallodolid tapas competition: Im still on Spanish time, so itll get done late and after some iberico and fine wine”

    My competition career really began for me around one year ago when I won the Kendall tryout to compete for the chaine des rotessuer competition.  My schedule regularly consisted of 6 am classes till 11 in which I would scurry over to one of the kitchens and desperately try to find a spot toContinue reading “The start of competitions”

So as I have gone through my journey in food I cant help but feel that I should catalogue all that I have been doing in a more productive form than facebook.  Something to look back on for myself as well as something for others to see some cool food or get some ideas from. Continue reading “First post”