《铁人料理》厨师第一名和詹姆斯比尔德奖获得者Alum Jose Garces致开幕词
Ceremony to be Held June 24 at Chicago Symphony Center Orchestra Hall
开幕典礼于6月24日在芝加哥交响乐中心演奏厅举办
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芝加哥——2012年5月3日，肯代尔大学宣布：肯代尔西餐西点学院1996年的毕业生、美食频道《铁人料理》（Food Network Iron Chef）厨师和詹姆斯比尔德奖获得者（James Beard Award-winner）Jose Garces将在2012届毕业典礼上致开幕词，毕业典礼将于6月24日上午10点在芝加哥交响乐中心演奏厅（Chicago Symphony Center Orchestra Hall）举行。学院将为商学院、西餐西点学院、教育学院和酒店管理学院的400多名学生授予学位。
肯代尔大学校长Emily Knight表示：“我非常荣幸能邀请厨师Garces作为2012届毕业典礼的开幕式演讲嘉宾。作为肯代尔大学的校友，Jose不仅是即将开始自己职业生涯的学生们的榜样，而且也见证了我们杰出的教职员工为学生获得成功所做出的贡献。”
Garces的父母是厄瓜多尔人，但他出生于美国，后来在他祖母的厨房开始学习西餐西点制作。Garces厨师从肯代尔大学毕业后，于2005年开了自己的第一家餐厅Amada，他很快就获得了成功，并为自己赢得了“超级天才和美国最有天赋的年轻厨师之一”的称号。他的同名Garces集团在费城、芝加哥、斯科茨代尔、棕榈泉和大西洋城经营了十几家餐厅。2009年，Garces赢得美食频道《下一代厨神》节目（The Next Iron Chef）第一名，成为美国8位获得美国铁厨称号（Iron Chef America）的其中1位。现在他经常出现在美食频道。
Garces厨师认为肯代尔大学的教授和同事帮助他开启了成功的职业生涯。他表示：“我在肯代尔学到的自律和知识结构为我在专业厨房工作做好了准备，同时也使我学到了促进职业生涯发展的关键技能，促进我从厨师到行政主厨再到餐厅拥有者的转变。实际上，我在肯代尔的高级项目是为西班牙的小吃吧和餐厅策划商业计划，我的第一家餐厅Amada就是以其为原型，和它极其相似。我完全可以说那个项目是我成功职业生涯的开端，而且就是在肯代尔大学创立的。”
Garces厨师自从毕业后已经撰写了一本烹饪书籍，书名为Latin Evolution（Lake Isle出版社，2008年秋季出版）；第二本书籍名为Latin Road Home，计划于今年出版。2009年他赢得了詹姆斯•比尔德基金会（James Beard Foundation）著名的“大西洋中部最佳厨师奖”（“Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic”）。并且他已经被多家优秀电视节目专访，并多次出现在著名的出版物上，例如《今日秀》（The Today Show）、《夜线》（Nightline）、《纽约日报》（The New York Times）、《旅游与休闲》（Travel & Leisure）、《好胃口》（Bon Appetit）、《美食与美酒》（Food & Wine）和《华尔街日报》（The Wall Street Journal）。
典礼过后，Garces会在自己担任行政主厨的芝加哥Mercat a la Planxa餐厅举办的特别“欢迎”活动上欢迎肯代尔的校友，活动时间为2012年5月3日下午1点至3点。
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办公地址：北京市 东城区 东直门外大街48号 东方银座A座19FAlum Jose Garces, Iron Chef and James Beard Award-winner, to Deliver Commencement Address
Ceremony to be Held June 24 at Chicago Symphony Center Orchestra Hall
CHICAGO—May 3, 2012—Kendall College announces that Chef Jose Garces, a 1996 graduate of the Kendall College School of Culinary Arts, Food Network Iron Chef and James Beard Award-winner, will deliver the commencement address at its 2012 graduation ceremony, to be held at 10:00 a.m. on June 24 at Chicago Symphony Center Orchestra Hall. The college will award degrees to more than 400 students in the Schools of Business, Culinary Arts, Education and Hospitality Management.
“I’m proud to welcome Chef Garces as our 2012 commencement speaker,” said Emily Knight, president of Kendall College. “As a Kendall College alum, Jose is not only an inspiration to our students that are on the verge of beginning their professional careers, but also a testament to our outstanding faculty and staff’s commitment to preparing our students for success.”
An American chef born to Ecuadorian parents and raised in Chicago, Chef Garces began his culinary training in the kitchen of his paternal grandmother. After graduating from Kendall College and opening his first restaurant, Amada, in 2005, Chef Garces blossomed, quickly earning a name for himself as an enormous talent and one of the nation’s most gifted young chefs. His eponymous Garces Group owns and operates more than a dozen restaurants in Philadelphia, Chicago, Scottsdale, Palm Springs and Atlantic City. In 2009, Chef Garces won Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef, making him one of only eight in the country to hold the prestigious title of Iron Chef America; today, he appears regularly on the Food Network hit.
Chef Garces credits his professors and colleagues at Kendall College with kick-starting his successful career. “The discipline and structure I encountered at Kendall prepared me for the world of professional kitchens and taught me the critical skills necessary to build my career from line cook to executive chef to chef-owner,” he says. “In fact, my senior project at Kendall was a business plan for a Spanish tapas bar and restaurant that bears striking resemblance to my first restaurant, Amada. It would be fair to say that that project was the beginning of my incredible career, and it was created right here at Kendall College.“
Since graduating, Chef Garces has also authored a cookbook, Latin Evolution (Lake Isle Press, Fall 2008); his second, The Latin Road Home, is set to be published this year. He also won the James Beard Foundation’s prestigious “Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic” award in 2009. He has been featured on top TV shows and in prestigious publications that include: The Today Show, Nightline, The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine and The Wall Street Journal.
Following commencement, Garces will welcome Kendall alumni at a special “meet and greet” event at Mercat a la Planxa in Chicago, where he is executive chef, from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. CHICAGO—May 3, 2012
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