New York City Careers Through Culinary Arts

Windows on the World hosted the 9th Annual Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP) Awards Breakfast. New York City high school seniors were awarded scholarships to nationally-recognized and local culinary institutions.

The scholarships were awarded to local students and teachers as a result of a cooking competition sponsored by C-CAP at The New York Restaurant School. This year's competition judges included: Dan Barber, Blue Hill; Peter Elliot, Bloomberg; Odette Fada, San Domenico; Michael Otsuka, Verbena; Marcus Samuelsson, Aquavit; Alex Urena, Blue Hill; Patricia Yeo, AZ

The New York City C-CAP program is currently in 33 public high schools in the five boros. C-CAP's mission is to promote and provide food service career opportunities for inner city youth. Since 1990, C-CAP has awarded over $6.3 million in scholarships, recruited hundreds of industry volunteers and furnished participating schools with more than $1,000,000 worth of donated products and supplies for enrolled C-CAP schools.

C-CAP strives to instill self-esteem, self-reliance and a spirit of teamwork with the teachers and students enrolled in the C-CAP New York City program and in the other locales7Arizona, Chicago, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Tidewater, VA.

2001 NEW YORK CITY C-CAP Awards:
BROOKLYN:

DANIELLE BALTIMORE - DEWEY
- Sullivan County Community College $2,000/C-CAP $2,000

CARLA CAMPBELL - GRADY
- Sullivan County Community College $2,000/C-CAP $2,000

--2 2001 C-CAP AWARD WINNERS

KIMBERLY LACRETTE - GRADY
- Ronzoni Pasta: $2,000

GEORGIY LEVITSKIY - DEWEY
- French Culinary Institute: $24,750

LATAYA REID - DEWEY
- Johnson & Wales Univerisity : $40,000

BRONX:
CHARLES GRANT - ADLAI STEVENSON/ CO-OP TECH
- Peter Kump's New York Cooking School: $18,000

MANHATTAN:

LUIS GIERBOLINI - PARK WEST
- C-CAP: $2,000

CHARLES GRANT - CO-OP TECH/ADLAI STEVENSON
- Peter Kump's New York Cooking School: $18,000

SHAKIA HALL - PARK WEST
- New York Association of Cooking Teachers: $3,000/C-CAP $2000

MEGAN KEELEY - PARK WEST
- C-CAP: $1,000

CORY NEWSOME - PARK WEST
- C-CAP: $1,000

SHARD RAMHARRACK - PARK WEST
- Helena Rubinstein: $5,000

EMILIO SOSA - PARK WEST
- Ronzoni Pasta: $2,000

QUEENS:

MEHDI CHELLAOUI - LONG ISLAND CITY
- Elizabeth B. Grausman Memorial $10,000/Culinary Institute of America matching $10,000

CARLOS OSORIO - LONG ISLAND CITY
- Culinary Institute of America: $33,320

--3 2001 C-CAP AWARD WINNERS

CECIL PHILLIPS - SPRINGFIELD
- Elizabeth Alston: $5,000

RACHEL THOMPSON - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS
- New York Restaurant School: $15,000

STATEN ISLAND:

LAUREN CARDINALE - TOTTENVILLE
- New York Restaurant School: $15,000

MICHAEL DIPIAZZA - TOTTENVILLE
- Ronzoni Pasta: $4,000

MARIA LONGO - TOTTENVILLE
- Art Institutes for New York Restaurant School: $29,109

AWARDS TO JUNIORS:

Le Cordon Bleu Award:

Matthew Dunn, Tottenville in Staten Island
Susan Caprio (teacher), Grady Tech in Brooklyn

CIA Career Discovery:

JoAnn Dresch, Tottenville
Warren Schueler (teacher), Tottenville

Silvana Milan, Port Richmond in Staten Island
James Ryan (teacher), Port Richmond

Melynda Daly, Grady Tech in Brooklyn