South Beach Award Winning Chef Frank Randazzo Presents Chefs4Students.org Culinary Grant at Johnson & Wales University

For Immediate Release: July 14, 2007 Steamboat Springs, Colorado

South Beach Celebrity Chef Frank Randazzo Presents Chefs4Students.org Culinary Grant at Johnson & Wales University

Award winning local chef and Johnson & Wales alumni, Frank Randazzo presented culinary student Nicole Impero a $1,000 culinary grant from Chefs4Students.org on July 6th at the Johnson and Wales campus in Miami Beach, Florida. Impero was one of twelve grant recipients chosen by a panel of executive chefs, business executives and culinary professionals from various organizations from around the globe.

Chef Frank Randazzo met the team from Chefs4Students.org Culinary Grant program while appearing as a celebrity chef judge at the Johnson & Wales “National High School Chef of the Year” Contest at the Charlotte, NC campus this past March. Randazzo and his wife, Andrea Curto-Randazzo own and operate the popular Talula Restaurant & Bar on the northern edge of South Beach.

When Chefs4Students.org administrators, Chef David and Pamela Nelson learned one of the recipients was going to be from the Johnson & Wales Miami campus, “We thought of Chef Frank immediately. Being a Johnson and Wales alumni and considering his passion for the future of our industry, Chef Frank was a perfect candidate for a grant presenter” says Nelson. “We were very pleased when he accepted our offer.”

About Talula Restaurant & Bar: Talula Restaurant & Bar is the loving evolution of two outstanding careers, those of award winning chefs Andrea Curto-Randazzo and Frank Randazzo. Located at 210 23rd Street on Miami Beach, Talula opened in June 2003. For reservations: 305-672-0778

About Chefs4Students.org: C4S is a not-for-profit organization founded by dedicated chefs committed to giving back to the future of the industry. Chefs from all over the world come together and raise money by booking out their restaurants for food and wine pairings along with silent auctions. It has also been funded by generous like-minded culinarians in many forms including cash and product donations for auctions, cookbook donations and more. The program is overseen by Chef David and Pamela Nelson from Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

David and Pamela Nelson
Chefs4Students.org
1360 Indian Trails #13
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487

All proceeds raised at events, auctions or cash donations go into a fund set-up under the umbrella of the Yampa Valley Community Foundation located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This foundation over-sees all funds and disburses the money as advised at the time of grant awards. To learn more, go to www.yvcf.org . Chefs4Students.org and its administrators do not profit from this program.

Without the dedicated contributions of the chefs behind the program, it would not exist.