Sivako Chef de Partie Vedangi Gawde crowned Callebaut Pat

Sivako, a outstanding Mumbai-based Patissier, is delighted to announce that its Chef de Partie Vedangi Gawde has emerged triumphant to be named Callebaut Patissier of the Year 2024. Vedangi Gawde has been skilled and mentored by Sivako’s Creative Director and award-winning artisanal patisserie Chef Eureka Araujo, who additionally registered a podium end on the World Pastry Queen Championship 2023 in Italy.

Organised by in style Belgian chocolate model Callebaut, the third version of the occasion was organised after a hiatus of 5 years. It centered on growing a platform within the nation to facilitate pastry cooks to carry their artistry below the limelight by showcasing their ingenuity and expertise. The flagship occasion’s regional qualifying rounds have been performed throughout key Indian cities in February — in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru. The theme for this 12 months’s occasion was ‘Craft Your Signature’ and Sivako’s Vedangi Gawde was the one feminine contestant within the operating.

Vedangi Gawde, Chef de Partie, Sivako and Callebaut Patissier of the Year 2024, really feel the steering and motivation of her mentors at Sivako performed a pivotal function in her success on the occasion. “I can’t describe my emotions in phrases. Sivako and Chef Eureka’s steering and mentorship has been the defining trait behind this success and I’m trying ahead to studying extra from her and translating the training curve into success. The theme of this 12 months was ‘Craft Your Signature’, which is why I made a decision to merge pastry and artwork collectively, one thing that defines me. Through chocolate, I confirmed how color coordinates with one another to kind a model new imaginative and prescient. It was Chef Eureka and Ms. Nikita Araujo (Co- founder & Managing Director, Sivako) who always motivated me to take part within the competitors and with out their help and encouragement, this is able to not have been doable,”

Chef Eureka Araujo, Creative Director, Sivako, additionally expressed her delight on the success of her mentee, saying, “It was fantastic. It is particularly particular for each Vedangi and Sivako as a result of when she participated on the qualifiers, she fell shy of some marks and was eradicated. But we nonetheless held onto our hopes of her making a wild card entrance, and she or he did simply that. Vedangi has confirmed that at Sivako, we nurture winners and the truth that she was the one feminine contestant on the closing makes the win even sweeter.”

The closing of the flagship occasion was organised on May twenty fourth and twenty fifth on the Taj Lands End Bandra. The contestants have been challenged by crafting bonbons, recent pastries, thriller field objects, snacks on the go, and a grand chocolate show that mirrored their resourcefulness in bakery, pastry, confectionery, and showpiece classes. Chef Pratik Deshmukh, the Head of Chocolate Academy Mumbai, acted because the Head of Jury for the occasion, a panel that additionally consisted of outstanding culinary artists corresponding to Chef Minette Smith, Callebaut Global Creative Lead, Chef Romain Renard, Regional Head Chocolate Academies Centers – MENA, and Chef Arvind Prasad, Indian ambassador for Callebaut Chocolates and Founder and Executive Pastry Chef at Whitecaps International School of Pastry.