DC News March 2010
Iron Chef? Not Here!
UMass Dining Features Four Visiting College Chefs
It was a beautiful evening on the UMass campus, with students bustling around as they retreated to their evening activities in the cool spring weather. But even busier was the main concourse of the famed Berkshire Dining Commons, where UMass Dining held the 2010 Visiting College Chef Series by hosting four schools from all over the United States before Spring Break.
Billed as “An Epic Battle of Taste” event, 8 chefs from four schools were together at UMass to showcase their students’ favorites and regional specialties. In each of Berkshire’s regular food stations was a chef and their sous chef from one of the four regions of the United States—Chef Barry Greenburg, from the University of Iowa, representing the Midwest, Chef Paul Oesterle, from the University of Georgia, cooking from the South, Chef Manfred Edler, from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, up in the Northeast, and way out West, Chef Nijo Joseph from Stanford University.