VANCOUVER-Chef Ryan Stone of the Marriott Pinnacle Hotel, Vancouver will be going to France in 2011 as Canada's entrant in one of the world's top cooking competitions.
Aided by Jessica Devlin, his apprentice at the hotel, Stone bested three other competitors from different parts of Canada to earn the right to compete in the biannual Bocuse d'Or competition in 2011.
His victory came in Montreal last month where the competition was held in conjunction with the annual convention of the Canadian Culinary Federation.
He and Devlin were required to prepare two platters for 12 in a five-hour period, using rack of pork and sablefish with lobster.
In preparation for the 2011 Bocuse d'Or, Stone will go with David Wong to Lyon next January for the 2009 competition.
As an apprentice, Stone helped two chefs win the right to compete in previous Bocuse d'Or events, Morgan Wilson who competed in 2005 and Scott Jaegar who went to Lyon in 2007.
Twenty-four countries each send a chef to the Bocuse d'Or competition, organized under the stewardship of famed French chef Paul Bocuse.
