Chef Kerry Heffernan makes a dish of hard-nose fish with peppers and cilantro in front of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College students. Photo: KEN SILVA

Renowned international chefs Christopher Faulkner, Michael Ferraro and Kerry Heffernan came to the Virgin Islands last week to participate in Sunday’s Barefoot Gourmet Soiree, the event that kicked off the BVI Tourist Board’s annual BVI Food Fete.

Chef Kerry Heffernan makes a dish of hard-nose fish with peppers and cilantro in front of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College students. Photo: KEN SILVA
While here, the chefs also held instructional classes for high school and community college culinary students on Friday.

“It would be very easy for us to bring these chefs in, let them do the event, enjoy the BVI, and leave,” said BVITB Film Commissioner Rhodni Skelton. “We didn’t want that. We wanted to take some nuggets from them.”

Messrs. Faulkner, Ferraro and Heffernan held two classes on Friday — one at the Virgin Islands School of Technical Studies and one at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College — where they conducted cooking demonstrations for the students.

The BVI Food Fete will continue Saturday with the Taste of Tortola at the Queen Elizabeth II Park. Other events are coming up:

• Nov. 11-12: Peter Island Food Festival

• Nov. 13: Jost Pork Festival

• Nov. 13: Jost Bar Crawl

• Nov. 18: On the Rocks Bar Crawl

• Nov. 19: Taste of Virgin Gorda

• Nov. 25: Lobster Crawl

• Nov. 26-27: Anegada Lobster Festival

For more information, go to bvifoodfete.com.

See the Nov. 3, 2016 edition for full coverage.

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