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A FORMER Coleg Llandrillo Hospitality and Catering student played a crucial part in the Junior Culinary Team Wales's impressive medal haul at the IKA Culinary Olympics in Germany, with the young team winning silver and bronze medals.

Twenty-year-old Morgan Read, from Caerwys, who studied for three years at the college's Rhos-on-Sea campus until summer 2019, was a key member of Wales's youngest ever junior team - which had an average age of just 19.

Morgan is currently employed at the Brookhouse Mill in Denbigh.

Taking on the best young chefs in the world, the junior team won the silver medal in the 'Restaurant of Nations (Hot Kitchen)' competition and bronze in the 'Chefs' Table Edible Buffet' category in Stuttgart.

The Senior Culinary Team Wales claimed the second bronze medal for the country in the 'Restaurant of Nations' competition, which saw the talented chefs cook a three-course menu for 110 diners.

The senior and junior teams joined around 2,000 chefs and pastry chefs from more than 60 nations at the biggest and oldest international culinary art exhibition, which is held every four years.

Morgan's former tutor during his studies at Coleg Llandrillo, and the manager of Junior Culinary Team Wales, Mike Evans, said: "Morgan was a thoroughly dedicated student who won a wide range of competitions during his time here at the college.

"During the Culinary Olympics, Morgan and the whole junior team performed to a very high standard; his fish terrines were particularly outstanding.

"We would have liked a gold medal but to win a high silver was an outstanding achievement considering two of the chefs - Alice Yeomans and James Jarvis - were only promoted to the team last month.

"The team is elated and coach Danny and I are delighted with the way the young chefs worked."

Arwyn Watkins, Culinary Association of Wales president, said: "It was an outstanding performance by a very young junior team who are competing at their first Culinary Olympics.

"Wales was the only junior team at the Culinary Olympics with an exact gender balance. This is the future generation and we look forward to their development for the Culinary World Cup in 2022 in Luxembourg."

For information about Hospitality and Catering courses at Coleg Llandrillo, go to www.gllm.ac.uk/hospitality or call the college's Learner Services team on 01492 542 338.

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