Show 211, February 18, 2017: Chef Mathew Peters, Gold Medalist, Team USA, 2017 Bocuse d’Or International Culinary Competition

We’ve been enthusiastically following Team USA’s progress (backed by the ment’or BKB Foundation) in the bi-annual Bocuse d’Or International Culinary Competition for the last five years. Late last month Team USA achieved the impossible – Gold in Lyon.

Mathew Peters“On January 25, 2017, Team USA 2017 was the first American team to win Gold at the Bocuse d’Or! This is an extraordinary accomplishment and words cannot adequately express how proud we are of Chef Mathew Peters, Commis Harrison Turone and Head Coach Philip Tessier. This historic win would not have been possible without our designer, Martin Kastner, and his team from Crucial Detail. We would also like to extend our congratulations to all of the teams who competed this year – it was an incredible display of culinary excellence.” – Young Yun, Executive Director, ment’or BKB Foundation

Team USA’s Bocuse d’Or world champion, Chef Mathew Peters (ex-per se), joins us to savor this tremendous achievement for the culinary arts in the United States.

Next for Chef Matt is securing a site for his own dream restaurant. It’s very preliminary but it could possibly be Northern California or Austin, Texas. We’ll keep you posted.