2012 Scholarship Recipients

The 2012 Les Dames d’Escoffier Scholarship applicants all hold the promise of leading Chicago’s culinary scene sometime in the future. Seven highly motivated, passionate culinary students stood out from the rest to earn this year’s Les Dames d’Escoffier Chicago Scholarships.

Applications were received from students at College of DuPage, DePaul University, Elgin Community College, The French Pastry School, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago, Kendall College, Lexington College, Robert Morris University–Institute of Culinary Arts, Triton College, Washburne Culinary Institute – and $30,000 worth of scholarships were awarded.

Please meet the 2012 Les Dames d’Escoffier Chicago scholarship winners:

Raynise Arrington, a student at Washburne Culinary Center, was awarded a $5,000 scholarship. She described culinary as “creating art that is edible,” that “brings joy to everyone.” The different foods are “like a big box of crayons.” Her earliest memory in the kitchen was baking cakes with her grandmother, where her job was to “sift the flour into a big mountain on the table.” Raynise’s unbridled passion was contagious as she described networking with culinary professionals at school and in the community, as well as when she explained a non-profit program she and friends from Continue reading “2012 Scholarship Recipients”

Washburne Culinary Showcase Dinner 2012

Dames Gretchen Homan, Jean True, Patty Erd, Nancy Siler, Mary Abbott Hess and Judith Dunbar Hines attended the 14th Annual Washburne Culinary & Hospitality  Showcase Dinner, May 3rd, to honor Chicago Chapter scholarship recipients and Washburne students Raynise Arrington and Ashley Tezeno. 

2011 Scholarship winner Kristine White, thanked Les Dames for their support in her student address during the Awards Program.

Scholarship Committee Members Jean True and Gretchen Homan with this year’s Washburne Scholarship recipients (front row, l-r) Raynise Arrington and Ashley Tezeno. Kristine White, a 2011 Les Dames scholarship winner, is in the back row.

Congratulations!