Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s hospitality majors will cook and serve free samples to patrons of the Williamsport Growers Market on Saturday, Oct. 25. The students will demonstrate their dishes – all made with ingredients donated by vendors at the market – and serve samples beginning at 8 a.m.
Goodwill ambassadors share hospitality in area benefit. Who wouldn't give a student-prepared dessert a thumbs-up?!?!? Tickled pink to help raise money and breast-cancer awareness are, from left, Rachel C. Bryant, Wellsboro; Autumn E. MacInnis, Trout Run; Marci L. Cohen, Clarks Summit; and Jonathan T. Hall, Williamsport. Aglow at helping a good cause is Kelsey L.
Jessica N. Felton, a culinary arts and systems major from State College, has won the right to represent Pennsylvania College of Technology at this year's World Food Championships in Las Vegas. She was among six School of Business & Hospitality students who vied Monday night for a "Golden Ticket" to compete in the Nov. 12-18 event.
Kneeling: Amber S. English, Lewistown, hospitality management. Standing, from left: Katelynn M. Watson, Milton, culinary arts technology; Jessica N. Felton, State College, culinary arts and systems; Jessica R. Wollet, Williamsport, culinary arts technology; Alex D. Mytinger, New Berlin, occupational therapy assistant; and Dr. Chuck Zaleski, owner of Fero Vineyards & Winery.
Vaughn addresses an attentive group culinary arts, baking and pastry arts and hospitality management students in the SASC Presentation Room. Adding a visual aid to his vivid storytelling, Vaughn “toasts” bread. Many students sought to record their visit with the chef.
A lecture at Pennsylvania College of Technology by award-winning chef and television host Ben Vaughn has been rescheduled to Sept. 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Klump Academic Center auditorium.
Wine Spectator magazine recently released its annual Restaurant Wine List Awards program, again naming Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Le Jeune Chef Restaurant among the “Best of Award of Excellence” recipients. The restaurant is one of 883 worldwide to earn the magazine’s second-tier “Best of” award.
Two baking and pastry arts students from Pennsylvania College of Technology spent the summer helping to fill thousands of stomachs at one of the area’s most-loved destinations: Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg. Autumn E. MacInnis, of Trout Run, and Timothy L. Kuntz, of Wyalusing, spent the summer producing baked goods at the park’s Cookie Nook.
Students Timothy L. Kuntz, of Wyalusing, Jonathan T. Hall, of Williamsport, and Autumn E. MacInnis, of Trout Run, meet with Chef Joseph Cumm, recent winner of the Food Network's "King of Cones." Baking and pastry arts students traveled to York Technical Institute to meet YTI instructor and Food Network winner Chef Joseph Cumm, including watching his television appearance.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The lecture was subsequently rescheduled to Sept. 10.) Food Network host and James Beard Award nominee Chef Ben Vaughn will offer a free public lecture Sept. 4 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Vaughn’s talk, part of the college’s William C.
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