Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) has the honour to organise “Master Chef Demonstration Workshop: Chef Graham Elliot” with MGM on 4 July. The internationally renowned Chef Graham Elliot, who is also the Consulting Chef of Coast for MGM COTAI, came to IFT to showcase his superb culinary skills and share his experience and philosophy on cooking.
Over 30 local food and beverage professionals and IFT’s Culinary Arts Management Bachelor Degree Programme students attended and enjoyed an up-close encounter with this celebrity chef that they often seen on TV.
The workshop was held at IFT’s Demonstration Kitchen. During the workshop, Chef Graham Elliot shared his philosophy and motto on cooking, as well as his career and experience in cooking with participants. Besides, a Macao local chef Betty Fung also shared her personal journey as a chef and on the catering scene in Macao with Chef Graham and the attendees. After the sharing session, Chef Graham Elliot performed a cooking demonstration on two of his signatures dishes at the soon-to-open Coast at MGM COTAI that capture the spirit of California. The first dish was Deconstructed Caesar Salad, one of Graham Elliot’s famous dishes. The second dish was African Chicken 2.0, Graham Elliot’s version of the authentic Macanese dish which is also the exclusive signature dish at Coast.
Graham Elliot is an award-winning chef, restaurateur, television personality and cookbook author. Elliot has accrued many prestigious accolades including multiple James Beard Foundation Nominations. At age 27, Elliot became the youngest four-star chef to be named in any major US city and was named one of Food & Wine magazine’s “Best New Chefs” in 2004. In 2008, Elliot opened his eponymous restaurant, Graham Elliot, which went on to become one of only 15 restaurants in the US to be awarded two Michelin stars. In 2016 after 10 seasons with the MasterChef & MasterChef Jr. franchise, Chef Elliot left the show to join the Emmy Award winning hit cooking competitions, Top Chef as one of the full time judges. Graham is also the host and star of the popular TV programme series “Going Off the Menu”.
IFT has been striving to enhance the skills and knowledge of local tourism and hospitality professionals as well as to bring in new culinary elements and experiences to Macao. Through organising this event, it is believed that the culinary knowledge and horizon of local citizens and professionals will be enhanced.
Established in 1995, the Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao (IFT) offers the most extensive selection of tourism and hospitality related bachelor degree programmes in Macao, and about twenty thousand participants attend its vocational and professional training courses annually. IFT collaborates with 101 universities and tourism organisations around the world, and builds strong links with 500 leading tourism and hospitality corporations to offer internship opportunities to its students. Being the first institution accredited by the UNWTO.TedQual Certification System for tourism education, IFT has now 8 bachelor degree programmes with the Certification. Currently, the Institute has the most number of bachelor degree programmes certified under the System of any tertiary education establishment worldwide. In 2017, the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) has received a successful International Quality Review(IQR) from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), making IFT to become the world’s first higher education institution to receive this international recognition. IFT has been ranked by the “QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017” as the 2nd best higher education institution in Asia in the field of hospitality and leisure management and the 18th best higher education institution in this field in the world. In addition, IFT has received the Medal of Merit in Tourism from the Macao SAR Government, and won twice the Gold Award in ‘Education and Training’ from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).
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