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The Lisbon hotel school has occupied this Head Office of ‘Turismo de
1927 building since 2009 Portugal I.P’
On Saturday afternoon the national representatives Klaus Enengl thanking Nuno Santos, Paulo Revés, Clara Freitas and
were finally able to set off to explore the old part of Alexandra Pereira
the city of Lisbon, an amazing treasure of monuments
We should also like to pay tribute to our dear
and tourist attractions. We will describe below just the
Hungarian National Representative and former
ones we were able to visit or admire.
Vice-President, Akos Sasvari from the Giorgio
The sun had finally swept away the rain of the
Perlasca school in Budapest, who has worked hard
previous two days, allowing us to walk from the Santa
for the AEHT, especially in organising events (a
Maria Maior Cathedral to the old Alfama district, one
total of seven) and in recruiting members in Eastern
of the few parts of the city to have survived the 1755
European countries. Moreover his school was the
earthquake, which was followed by a devastating
first from Eastern Europe to become a member of
tsunami and a terrible fire. We walked through St
our Association in 1992. As he himself put it so well
George’s castle, sitting atop the historic centre’s
recently, ‘In 1990 when I became director of my
highest hill and affording the visitors one of the finest
school, Hungarian hotel and tourism education had
views over the city and the Tagus estuary.
until then been cut off by the iron curtain and was in
urgent need of new ideas and experiences from
Western European countries. After a long search we
discovered the AEHT and quickly made contact with
them. We were lucky that the Association happened
to be in the process of opening up membership to
former communist countries - it saw the importance
of this well before the politicians’.
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maior dating from 1150 (and Akos Sasvari will retire from his post at the end of this
subsequently greatly modified) and the famous 1732 Aguas Livres academic year, and we wish him well for his retirement.
(‘free waters’) Aqueduct which survived the 1755 earthquake
The contest was aimed at students in their third Each year the AEHT, in close collaboration with the
year of culinary arts programmes in European ACCOR Group, organises professional placements
hotel schools. The event attracted participants for teachers. What is it about? Firstly Stéphanie
from 12 schools, eight Italian schools and four Lausecker, an assistant in the ACCOR Hotels
from outside Italy, including nine AEHT member Human Resources Directorate, sends out a letter to
schools. The four countries represented were the hotels of the group, asking them to host teachers
Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany and Italy. from AEHT member schools for professional
placements lasting one or two weeks. A number of
The event aimed to encourage the study of the use hotels agree to participate in the scheme.
of aromatic herbs and to encourage students’
professional confidence, while facilitating These placements can take place in one of the
meetings between students and teachers from following departments: Reception/Rooms Division;
different regions and from different sociocultural Housekeeping and Room Service; F&B; Restaurant;
backgrounds, as well as the exchange of and Group Services/Commercial Relations. This
knowledge, experience and working methods. information is available in a document published at
www.zshg.waw.ids.pl/aeht_accor_gl.html, and this
This year all the winners called to the platform to site is also accessible via a link from the AEHT’s
receive prizes were Italians: website. Thus an initial list of placement offers was
published at the beginning of March by our ACCOR
The First Prize was awarded to placements organiser, Magdalena Waglowska-
Mattia Pesarin from the ISS ‘P.
Krzciuk from the Warsaw Hotel School:
Artusi’ in Forlimpopoli for his
‘Tower of green asparagus with Zespół Szkół Hotelarsko-Turystyczno-
Parmesan mousse, Gastronomicznych Nr 1
squacquerone (an Italian cream ul. Krasnołęcka 3, PL-00-734 Warsaw
cheese) and wild spinach with a Fax: (48) 22 840 48 97 - E-mail: aehtaccor@wp.pl .
pesto of dried tomatoes, wild
garlic oil and lovage.
The Second Prize was won by
Matteo Dimiziani from the
IIS ‘V. Gioberti’ in Rome for his
‘Pear Delight with a
squacquerone and mint heart on
a redcurrant coulis.
In Third Place came Antonio
Meneghin from the IPSSAR ‘D.
Dolomieu’ in Longarone (BL) Anna Szałek, a teacher at the Warsaw hotel school ’Zespół Szkół
for his Yoghurt with herbs and Hotelarsko-Turystyczno-Gastronomicznych Nr 1’, on placement in 2007
sweetmeats’. at the Ibis hotel London Wembley
Entrado :
- Sopa rica de peixe com crosta de massa folhada
Prato :
Leitão assado com grelos salteados ao alho e puré de
batata doce
Sobremesa :
Tarte de queijo com frutos marinados em vinho tinto
Johnny Carroll (IRL), a member of the judging panel and former
teacher at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, congratulates Café & Mignardises
Martins Kupecs
Vinhos
5. What are the most important qualities for a chef? Quinta Casal Branco, branco – Ribatejo
What recommendations and advice would you Monte da Cal, tinto - Alentejo
give to aspiring pastry chefs?
To become a good chef, first you must like your work
as well as those who work with you. In addition to
these social skills, you need excellent professional
knowledge and a high degree of skills, as well as the
ability to pass on your knowledge to your
colleagues. If I were to offer advice to students, I
would tell them to learn as much as they can from
their chefs, and to exchange ideas with Europe’s
most gifted professionals. Fish soup in puff pastry crust
Nadine SCHINTGEN
AEHT General Secretary