C’est si Bon! Cooks Up First Ever North Carolina Residential Camp for Teen Chefs

Chapel Hill, NC – Dorette Snover, chef owner of C’est si Bon! Cooking School in Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the kickoff of her third highly-popular teen week at C’est si Bon! For the first time ever, the format for this North Carolina event will be a week-long residential camp which will run from June 11 – 15. The program for the week, called “Carolina on My Plate,” offers promising teen chefs a medley of local field trips and applied kitchen work. Menus will be market-driven and developed by the young chefs with focused guidance from Chef Snover. At week’s end, recipes developed by the teens will be collected and compiled into a recipe booklet.

““We are so very excited and one of a very few cooking schools in the United States to offer teens such high-level culinary programs,” says Snover. “We’ll be doing this pilgrimage of pork, peppers and panciuto—layering ‘Carolina on My Plate’ on the groundwork of our European tours because hey, North Carolina is every bit as flavorful as Provence!”

The half a dozen teens who are participating in “Carolina on My Plate” will savor a gourmet camping experience with Chef Snover inside the new barn of Fickle Creek Farm in Efland, North Carolina. Highlights of their week will include field trips to Celebrity Dairy, renowned for its locally produced goat cheese, Cane Creek Farm, a local producer of ossabaw pork, and a sampling of Maple View Farms’ homemade ice cream. The chefs will also participate in a special Thai fruit and vegetable carving class with Chef James Parker of VeggyArt, who has appeared on Food Network’s primetime series, “Sugar Rush.” This will be Chef Parker’s third visit with C’est si Bon’s teen chefs. Additionally, the teens will participate in a team-building event and receive instruction in boning up on basics (stocks and boning a chicken) and the art of Italian wood-fired oven cooking.

For the complete roster of upcoming kid- and teen-chef programs at C’est si Bon!, visit http://www.cestsibon.net.

About C’est si Bon!: C’est si Bon! Cooking School specializes in teaching cooking techniques rather than recipes. Chef Owner Dorette Snover is highly regarded for the cooking camps she offers to children and teens each summer. She also leads teens on culinary journeys to Provence and Tuscany. For 2007, she has added a teen tour to Paris. Through C'est si Bon!, Chef Snover also offers team-building cooking classes, private cooking lessons and monthly small group classes. Her sommelier husband, Rich Snover, can offer wine tastings or pairings for any of these events.

Between baking calzones in her wood fired oven, Chef Snover is also a published author. Her story, “The Eel,” was published last year in Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat An Eye. “The Eel” is an excerpt from her novel, The City of Ladies, which maps the powerful, tender and brutal journey of two 16th century bread apprentices, talemelier. (Visit Snover’s associated blog at http://cestsibon.typepad.com/planting_cabbages/). One of her essays, "In the Kitchen", was published in an anthology of North Carolina women, The Secret to Their Success. Snover contributed "Aboyer: The Little Announcer," a story about a butter-maker in Paris, for Women Behaving Badly.

MEDIA CONTACT: Dorette Snover at (919) 942-6550 or dorette@cestsibon.net.