NOCCA's Culinary Arts Program Serves Up 'The Dish That Makes A Difference'

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Thomas Walsh

Published March 21, 2014 at 5:00 AM CDT

This year's competitors: Chefs Quanna Bourgeois, Landry Duchane and Arieanna McKnight.

Each yearNOCCA’s culinary arts programinvites restaurateurs, chefs and media representatives to attend a cook off between three culinary students. It's forTheDish That Makes a Difference, a friendly competition that places the winning dish in more than a dozen restaurants around town.

Since the proceeds from every sale of the dish go back into NOCCA's culinary arts program, there’s a lot of bragging rights at stake. So who will win?

VisitNOCCA's event page on Facebookto find out which restaurants are participating in the event.

Thomas Walsh

Thomas Walsh is an independent radio producer for WWNO. Each week he works to produce new editions of Louisiana Eats and All Things New Orleans, as well as Notes From New Orleans, The Farmer's Market Minute, and The Green Minute. Outside WWNO, Thomas is a volunteer disc jockey for WTUL, where he hosts a weekly live four-hour program broadcasting twentieth century classical music. Thomas has four years experience in audio engineering, and a BA from Trinity University in San Antonio where he double majored in communications and philosophy. Someday he will give away his entire collection of Grateful Dead concerts, which has swelled to unnecessary proportions in recent years.

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