Belize team to participate in premier culinary competition in Miami

A Belizean delegation, comprising senior members of the Belize Tourism Board (BTB), five professional chefs and a bartender, were scheduled to depart the country on Thursday to participate in the region’s premier culinary competition in Miami, Florida.

On Wednesday, the BTB said that “Taste of the Caribbean,” will be held from June 22-26 at Miami’s Hyatt Regency Hotel.

The Belizean team includes Chef Robertus “Rob” Pronk, as the team manager; two senior chefs, Eva Longsworth and Sean Kuylen; pastry chef, Maria Urbina; bartender, Mark Jacobs; and junior chef and winner of BTB’s 2016 Culinary Scholarship, Einar Marin.

The BTB said all except Marin are former winners/judges of BTB’s “Taste of Belize” in 2016, “a flavorsome event that features the best of Belizean cuisine creations through different categories of competitions.”

“’Taste of the Caribbean’ is the region’s premier culinary competition, food and beverage educational exchange and Caribbean cultural showcase.”

Since 1993, the Caribbean’s best chefs and culinary teams “unite at ‘Taste of the Caribbean’ to compete, demonstrate their skills, learn from each other and offer the general public a scintillating exhibition of the most delectable culinary treats.”

The BTB said one of the main objectives for the ‘Taste of the Caribbean’ is to “provide a platform for the development of food and beverage professionals.”