Colchester chef receives Italian award (From Gazette)

Colchester chef receives Italian award

6:00pm Friday 12th March 2010 in

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WHEN the Italians give you an award for your food, you know you must be doing something right.

Colchester chef Paul Boorman is delighted to have won a Slow Food Award by a delegation of dignitaries from San Michele Salentino, a small town in the heel of Italy, twinned with Tiptree. They visited Paul’s Juniper restaurant, at Clarice House Health Club, just outside Colchester, to present the award and invite the chef to visit Italy to judge a young chefs competition.

Paul was given the Slow Food Award in recognition of his achievements in cooking with and promoting local produce. San Michele was once famous for supplying dried figs to feed the Roman legions.

Slow Food is a non-profit organisation founded in 1989 to stem the rise of fast food restaurants and to promote public interest in traditional, locally-grown fare.