Center for Culinary Arts wins People's Choice award at Broad Appétit

The Center for Culinary Arts, under the culinary talent of center coordinator Chef Martin Gravely, won the Peoples’ Choice Award at the second annual Broad Appétit food festival held in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, June 7, 2009.

The festival, held on Broad Street in downtown Richmond, bills itself as "the smorgasbord on the street" and attracts food devotees from around the region for an afternoon of food and fun with fellow "foodies." This year, approximately 80 vendors representing restaurants and catering companies from the greater Richmond area vied for the coveted People's Choice Award. Event organizers estimated 18,000 attended the food and art festival.

On Chef Gravely's winning menu were grilled jumbo shrimp with red curry, shoestring beets and sesame cucumber salad.

Posted June 12, 2009