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Cervena® Venison of New Zealand Awards “Restaurateur of the Year” Scholarship to Anthony Mandriota
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Cervena® Venison of
New Zealand
Awards “Restaurateur of the Year” Scholarship
to Anthony
Mandriota, Graduate Student at
Florida
International
University
Cervena Venison of
New Zealand awarded its first $2500 “Restaurateur of the Year” scholarship to Anthony
Mandriota, a graduate student studying hospitality management at Florida International University School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.
The scholarship was awarded to the student submitting the best essay on “Meat Trends for 2007” and was judged by the faculty of the hospitality program at FIU.
“I am so grateful to Cervena for this opportunity to continue my education,”
enthused
Mandriota.
“I have served Cervena at restaurants I’ve worked in and was always impressed with its consistency and high quality, so it was easy for me to relate to the product.
I also want to thank the quality of leadership that
Florida
International
University’s Chef Moran
provides
his students – it has been invaluable to me as a chef and a future teacher.”
Anthony
Mandriota, who was raised in
Suffolk
County,
Long Island, began his cooking career there at Le
Soir Restaurant in Bayport.
He began cooking after high school and honed his skills the traditional way through hands-on experience in kitchens through the NY and
New England areas.
After 20 years behind the stove and a move to
Florida, he decided to pursue his career goal of becoming a hospitality management professor.
“My father is a professor, and I always enjoyed the teaching and mentoring portion of my job as the chef in a kitchen, so I decided to go back to college so that I could teach others what I’ve so enjoyed doing,” says
Mandriota.
Mandriota
earned his BS of Science in Hospitality Management at FIU in 2006, graduating at the top of his class.
He entered their masters program in September 2006, and his goal is to pursue a teaching position when he graduates later this year.
Cervena has partnered with the
School of
Hospitality and Tourism Management at
Florida
International
University for three consecutive years at the South Beach Food and Wine Festival, held in
Miami annually.
FIU is a founding sponsor of SOBE. This is the first scholarship that Cervena Venison of
New Zealand has awarded to a student at
Florida
International
University.
The judges were impressed by Anthony’s thoughtful essay on meat trends.
Anthony highlighted the trend toward diversity and choice on menus, and the need to provide diners with healthy alternatives.
“We are delighted to provide the scholarship to Anthony,” said Innes Moffat of Cervena.
“
and we wish him all the best for his future culinary career.”
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