The long-running Country Range Student Chef Challenge provides full time hospitality and catering college students with the perfect platform to improve cooking skills, knowledge and technique, while developing real life experience under pressure and a real-life competition environment. The lead sponsors Country Range work closely with the Craft Guild of Chefs team, including Chair of Judges Chris Basten, to develop a criteria that focuses on testing essential core skills and techniques and has been carefully designed in line with the syllabus to assess both classical and modern cooking techniques. Teams must work together to create a delicious three course, four cover menu that showcases their skill and understanding of flavours. This year’s theme is ‘Around the World’ encouraging students to research and be inspired by various food formats, flavours and cooking techniques from different cultures and cuisines. Each course focuses upon a different cuisine: Starter – Mexico / Main – Africa / Dessert – Australia