WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — An “Iron Chef” was among the culinarians who joined Pennsylvania College of Technology students to showcase the quality ingredients produced by Pennsylvania farms at the state Farm Show.
The students volunteered the final days of their winter break at the event, where they worked with some of Pennsylvania’s best chefs — and Food Network star Chef Alex Guarnaschelli — to prepare ingredients for the chefs’ demonstrations on the PA Preferred Culinary Connection stage and to cook samples of the recipes for Farm Show visitors.
During two demonstrations, Guarnaschelli taught audiences to make stuffed white mushrooms and broiled cauliflower steaks, both recipes from her latest cookbook. Backstage, she provided guidance to the students as they prepared samples of her dishes.
“It has been a pleasure to work with these students today,” Guarnaschelli said. “I think that if they learned nothing else, they learned the importance of salt in amplifying flavor and that, without it, everything else is just fluff.”