It is the first year that the state office is challenging their Oregon counterpart to see who can get the most volunteers enlisted in the soggy statistics.
Renton Technical College culinary student Krista Nakamura has been awarded Washington State Junior Chef of the Year by the Washington State Chef’s Association.
The 19-year-old from Maple Valley won the silver medal at the junior chef competition put on by the association in August 2010. Just recently they presented her formally with the medal at the Columbia Tower in Seattle in an American Culinary Federation meeting.
