City chef's in Pole position.Byline: By Paul James Paul James (born November 11, 1963 in Cardiff, Wales) is a football head coach and former Canadian national soccer team player . Developed into a top class midfield player while with the Toronto Blizzard and became a regular with the national team. Julian is a master of the culinary arts A top north chef is on his way to Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. after being invited to join the Polish inner sanctum of culinary experts. Julian Holland, who is head chef at Newcastle City Council, has been invited to become a member of the Polish Association of Master Chefs ( normally reserved for Polish nationals. Next week he is travelling to Poland for the inaugural Cup of the Three Presidents, after wowing crowds on an official visit to the country with the Lord Mayor to celebrate its entry into the European Union. He prepared traditional English dishes, including roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and Northumberland broth and became only the third non-Pole to be accepted into the country's cooking circle. Julian, who has more than 20 years of cooking experience, also spoke on Polish radio about his mother's bread and butter pudding Bread and butter pudding is a traditional dessert popular in British cuisine. It is essentially a baked form of French toast. It is made by layering slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins in an oven dish into which an egg and milk mixture (sometimes with vanilla or . His cooking went down so well that he was invited to enter the competition, where he has to cook a fish dish for eight within 90 minutes of the cod being caught. At the cook-off, in Gydinia City on Thursday, he plans to prepare roasted cod fillet fillet /fil·let/ (fil´et) 1. a loop, as of cord or tape, for making traction on the fetus. 2. in the nervous system, a long band of nerve fibers. fil·let n. 1. , wrapped in pancetta pan·cet·ta n. Italian bacon that has been cured in salt and spices and then air-dried. [Italian, diminutive of pancia, belly, from Latin pantex, pantic-.] with minestrone of puy lentils, with summer vegetables and parmesan crisp. The 37-year-old said: "It was a honour for me to visit and cook for the people of Gdansk and I was proud to be invited to become a member of the Polish Association of Chefs. "Cooking has played an important part of my life and after learning skills from my mother who was a domestic science teacher, I decided to pursue a career in catering. "I am looking forward to going back to Poland and taking part in the competition and hopefully doing the city proud." Gunther Seedbacher, hospitality services manager at the Civic Centre, said: "Julian is a first-rate chef and I'm certain he'll do the North-East proud in the competition. "No-one was surprised at his success in Gdansk, partly due to his skill and partly because we knew the dishes he was preparing were winners themselves. "We all have our fingers crossed that he repeats his success in Gydinia." Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Coun Margaret Carter, said: "I would like to wish Julian well during the competition and I am thrilled that he is flying the flag not only for Newcastle but for the whole country. "It is also my pleasure to congratulate Julian on receiving one of Poland's highest culinary honours." |
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