Venezuela Wins Embassy Chef Challenge
By • June 8, 2015 0 1557
Cultural Tourism D.C. presented the Seventh Annual Gala Embassy Chef Challenge May 20 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. A dozen embassy chefs presented their signature delicacies before a panel of celebrity chefs and food critics for Judge’s and People’s Choice Awards. Chef Manuel Rodrigues of Venezuela garnered top votes for his crowd-pleasing rendition of ceviche. Cultural Tourism D.C. board chair Tim Cox acknowledged former Chief of Protocol Capricia Marshall and the many other dignitaries in attendance before urging, “Dine like a diplomat, and let the international tasting begin.”
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- Winning chef Manuel Rodrigues of the Embassy of Venezuela, which is on 30th Street in Georgetown. | Neshan H. Naltchayan
