24 year old Onyeulo Kelechi will be representing Nigeria at the Young Chef Olympiad 2016 taking place in India.
Onyeulo is currently a student of Culinary Academy, a hospitality consulting, lifestyle, recreational, and academic organization founded by Ms. Tiyan Alile who has a great passion to educate people and promote the Culinary Arts.
This is the second edition of the Young Chef Olympiad. It is a platform which gives culinary students the opportunity to learn, teach, network with the best culinary schools worldwide. This edition brings the best culinary talent from across 67+ different nations to India for a Grand Finale to be held in Kolkata on 1st February, 2016.
Young Chefs from 67+ nations after getting selected, will fly down to India on 26th January to represent their country in a cook-off that will last 4 days starting 29th January to 1st February. The results will be collated and the Grand Finale is scheduled on Monday 1st February 2015 at Kolkata.
50+ Countries have confirmed their participation and 20 more are in process of confirmation.
The winner stands to win the First prize of $ 10,000 USD.
Nigeria is one of the eight African teams scheduled to compete in this event. Others include South Africa, Uganda, Seychelles, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mauritius and Egypt
Best of luck, Onyeulo
