IACC-Americas Names USA Chefs as “Copper Skillet Champions”

IACC | November 17, 2015

(Chicago, IL) -- November 2015 – Eight chefs from IACC-member properties across the US gathered to compete for the coveted US Copper Skillet at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center Chicago, where the winners edged one step closer to the International Copper Skillet Competition global finale in April. Austin Klug, restaurant line chef at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center took the "Junior Category US Copper Skillet Award" for his winning dish in the cook-off. Local judges named Austin the winner for his dish of creamy pepper polenta with lobster mushrooms, Wagyu New York strip steak and ...