2007, under the new Committee headed by Grant Johnston (Pres), Mark Seager (Sec), Fiona Gillander (Salon Co-coordinator) we successfully ran our first Salon Culinaire incorporating live cooking, and this event was for the first time held at Le Lagon Resort. This salon also saw the Fiji National Team compete in Vanuatu for the first time, and with representatives of the Australian Culinary Team along with local students prepared and served a 4 course dinner for our first Awards Dinner held on World Chefs Day, the 20th of October. This Dinner also saw the inaugural National Culinary Team Announced and the announcement that we would be sending the team to Fiji to compete. All 5 members of the team traveled to Fiji where they acquitted themselves very well.

National Team Sponsors

	Barrett and Partners
	Port Vila Parasailing
	Coconut Palms Resort
	Skål Club of Port Vila
	Erakor Island Resort
	Air Vanuatu
	Australian Culinary Federation
	Origin
	The Sebel
	Xtreme Chef Consultancy
	Chantilly’s On The Bay
	PKF
	PacificRim Trading
	Vate Ocean Gardens
	Teouma Prawns
	BIZassist
	ktctdotnet

I recently had the pleasure of judging the Chef of the Capital competition held in Wellington, this was great honour and was testament to the work that the Association has been doing here in Vanuatu with our own Competition.