SALINAS SCENE: Colorful Harvest honored with Gold Medal Award
SALINAS SCENE: Colorful Harvest honored with Gold Medal Award
Colorful Harvest recently was invited to the Chefs of America Gold Medal Masters of Taste awards in Chicago. This was a one-day meeting and selected product tasting for the top corporate chefs in the country. The event and awards dinner were conducted prior to the National Restaurant Association Conference.
The senior chefs from Au Bon Pain, Bahama Breeze, Bertucci's, Capitol Grill, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Cheesecake Factory, Chili's, Club Med, Cosi, Disneyland, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse, Holland America Line, Il Fornaio, Iron Skillet, McCormick & Schmick's, Morton's, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, PF Changs, Princess & Cunard Cruises, Macaroni Grill, Ruth's Chris and TGI Friday's were some of the senior foodservice leaders who participated in the event.
Colorful Harvest products were featured as the centerpiece for each of the 10 chef dining and tasting tables at the event. In addition, Colorful Harvest scarlet red corn and golden sweet carrots were recognized with Gold Medal Award status for Best New Produce Products.
Doug Ranno, chief operating officer of Colorful Harvest, said, "We are excited about being recognized by this prestigious organization, and to be able to speak one on one with the top chefs in the country is an honor. These are the people who create the food trends in our country."
Master of Ceremonies Chef Jesse Sartain said, "Colorful Harvest products are absolutely magnificent in both taste and visual presentation. Isn't that what it's all about?"
Ag Against Hunger unveils new tractor-trailer
Ag Against Hunger -- a nonprofit agency providing fresh donated produce primarily to food banks in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties -- unveiled its new tractor-trailer at a ribbon- cutting ceremony May 26 in Salinas.
Assured Aggregates, The Don Chapin Co. and AT&T Pebble Beach Charities donated the tractor, which will help Ag Against Hunger to feed more families in need. When the needs of local food banks are satisfied, Ag Against Hunger provides fresh produce statewide and out of state.
Following the ceremony the new trailer was opened and produce was unloaded directly into a distribution line for the Food Bank of Monterey County's free family market. Thousands of pounds of fresh produce were unloaded and immediately distributed to more than 500 families in need.
CSUMB students win award on ag math problem Students at California State University at Monterey Bay applied mathematics to solve a problem involving irrigation of agricultural fields and won a Meritorious Award -- the second-highest honor -- in a recent international math competition.
The award placed them in the top 15 percent of the nearly 1,000 teams that entered the competition. Those teams represented more than 500 colleges worldwide, including Harvard, Oxford, Duke, the U.S. Military Academy and a number of universities in China. The problems to solve were taken from the fields of science, engineering and industry.
The CSUMB team, comprised of senior Christina Schmunk and juniors Pamela Johnson and Jonathan Offi, chose a problem with real-world applications for the Salinas Valley: how to design an irrigation system that would minimize labor and maximize efficiency and uniformity of water distribution. Their professor is Dr. Hongde Hu.
The team had four days to work out a solution. The students did some experiments and field activities during the four days, using a wireless tablet computer to design the model, then explained their thought process in a 14-page paper -- including diagrams and graphs -- that was submitted to the contest judges.
CSUMB said that the students are always looking for real-world problems and would be open to requests for help from other members of the local agricultural community. A flower grower from Castroville consulted Dr. Hu for help in figuring out her company's most efficient product mix.
(Contact Brian Gaylord at 831/757-4000 or [email protected].)
The senior chefs from Au Bon Pain, Bahama Breeze, Bertucci's, Capitol Grill, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Cheesecake Factory, Chili's, Club Med, Cosi, Disneyland, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse, Holland America Line, Il Fornaio, Iron Skillet, McCormick & Schmick's, Morton's, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, PF Changs, Princess & Cunard Cruises, Macaroni Grill, Ruth's Chris and TGI Friday's were some of the senior foodservice leaders who participated in the event.
Colorful Harvest products were featured as the centerpiece for each of the 10 chef dining and tasting tables at the event. In addition, Colorful Harvest scarlet red corn and golden sweet carrots were recognized with Gold Medal Award status for Best New Produce Products.
Doug Ranno, chief operating officer of Colorful Harvest, said, "We are excited about being recognized by this prestigious organization, and to be able to speak one on one with the top chefs in the country is an honor. These are the people who create the food trends in our country."
Master of Ceremonies Chef Jesse Sartain said, "Colorful Harvest products are absolutely magnificent in both taste and visual presentation. Isn't that what it's all about?"
Ag Against Hunger unveils new tractor-trailer
Ag Against Hunger -- a nonprofit agency providing fresh donated produce primarily to food banks in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties -- unveiled its new tractor-trailer at a ribbon- cutting ceremony May 26 in Salinas.
Assured Aggregates, The Don Chapin Co. and AT&T Pebble Beach Charities donated the tractor, which will help Ag Against Hunger to feed more families in need. When the needs of local food banks are satisfied, Ag Against Hunger provides fresh produce statewide and out of state.
Following the ceremony the new trailer was opened and produce was unloaded directly into a distribution line for the Food Bank of Monterey County's free family market. Thousands of pounds of fresh produce were unloaded and immediately distributed to more than 500 families in need.
CSUMB students win award on ag math problem Students at California State University at Monterey Bay applied mathematics to solve a problem involving irrigation of agricultural fields and won a Meritorious Award -- the second-highest honor -- in a recent international math competition.
The award placed them in the top 15 percent of the nearly 1,000 teams that entered the competition. Those teams represented more than 500 colleges worldwide, including Harvard, Oxford, Duke, the U.S. Military Academy and a number of universities in China. The problems to solve were taken from the fields of science, engineering and industry.
The CSUMB team, comprised of senior Christina Schmunk and juniors Pamela Johnson and Jonathan Offi, chose a problem with real-world applications for the Salinas Valley: how to design an irrigation system that would minimize labor and maximize efficiency and uniformity of water distribution. Their professor is Dr. Hongde Hu.
The team had four days to work out a solution. The students did some experiments and field activities during the four days, using a wireless tablet computer to design the model, then explained their thought process in a 14-page paper -- including diagrams and graphs -- that was submitted to the contest judges.
CSUMB said that the students are always looking for real-world problems and would be open to requests for help from other members of the local agricultural community. A flower grower from Castroville consulted Dr. Hu for help in figuring out her company's most efficient product mix.
(Contact Brian Gaylord at 831/757-4000 or [email protected].)
