CAHM’s Aldrin enters finals of Young Chef Olympiad 2017 today

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Aldrin De Alwis Shu, a student of the Colombo Academy of Hospitality Management (CAHM) of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), has made it into the top ten and the final round at the Young Chef Olympiad 2017, which will be held today in Kolkata, India.

The event brings the best culinary talent from top hotel schools across 47 different nations to India. This, the third season of the Young Chef Olympiad, the world’s biggest Olympiad for culinary students, is being supported by the Indian Ministry of Tourism. The competition gives culinary students a great platform to learn, teach and network with the best global culinary schools.

Aldrin was mentored by CAHM Executive Chef and Senior Lecturer, Chef Kapila Jayanetti, who was also recently voted the fourth-most popular chef in Sri Lanka and by his second mentor chef Samantha Surene, a Culinary and Hospitality Trainer at CAHM.

CAHM is a new cutting-edge and dedicated academy for hospitality, culinary arts and tourism studies. Being Sri Lanka’s private higher education provider, SLIIT offers a specialist hospitality program at its purpose-built 22,000 square-foot training facility in Malabe. The academy offers a range of programs ranging from short courses through to the Advanced Diploma in Hospitality Management, provided in partnership with William Angliss Institute, Australia.

Through CAHM’s close academic collaboration it delivers globally recognised training programs and has emerged as the premier provider of prestigious hospitality, culinary and tourism education in Sri Lanka.