Toronto 
Canada’s culinary team is one step closer to winning the world’s toughest chef competition – the Bocuse d’Or.
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The Olympic Games of culinary competitions, Bocuse d’Or is a biennial world chef championship which takes place in Lyon, France, in January.
Canada’s national culinary athletes to the Bocuse d’Or took part in the continental finals (Americas) in Santiago, Chile and qualified for the 2023 event.
Canada’s team headed by Chef Samuel Sirois created a unique dish themed around Chilian salmon as well as a vegetarian plate created around quinoa, a mandatory ingredient.
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The intense five-and-a-half-hour culinary battle saw Chef Sirois, commis Léandre Legault- Vigneault and coaches Gilles Herzog and Alvin Leung winning silver.
The continental finals had 8 participating countries which included teams from the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile.
The United States took the 1st place.
The team will now progress to the world final in Lyon, France, in January 2023, alongside the other 23 best chefs on the planet.
