Do Thi Dieu Thuy & Giap Dieu of Vietnam are the 2013 winners of the LG Home Chef Championship, and officially the best home chefs in the world.
A pair of amateur home chefs from Vietnam were awarded the Grand Master Home Chef award at the 2013 LG Chef Championship cookoff in Cape Town, South Africa.
Do Thi Dieu Thuy and Giap Dieu of Vietnam took home the highest honor and a prize package worth $10,000 from LG for their creation, Baked Quail Filled With Clausena Indica Leaves.
Sadly, this means your wife, mother, husband or other host this holiday season aren’t technically the world’s greatest cook. However, I strongly advise you to avoid pointing that out. Instead, I suggest they try the amazing finalist recipes here, or try your own hand at them.
The LG Home Chef Championship is a unique competition in that no one that works in food service is allowed to enter. All of the mouth-watering, amazing food creations are made by people that enjoy cooking for themselves and their family.
The runner-up was Muhammad Iskandar Bin Ishak of Malaysia, who served Green Stuffed Chicken, a modern presentation of the local foods of his home country. The French team of Linda Beldjerd and Fadila Beaufilz came in third, having presented Medallion of Monkfish. Each of these finalists received gift vouchers for $5,000 in LG appliances to upgrade their home kitchens.
Perhaps best of all, the recipes of these award-winning home chefs have been made available on the LG Cooking site for everyone to try.
The final dishes were judged by a panel that included esteemed members of the World Association of Chef Societies and Le Cordon Bleu. According to LG, the judges were quite impressed with the presentation and creativity shown by these chefs who truly cook for the love of their craft.
After all, that is what ‘amateur’ means in French – one who loves.
“The 2013 LG-HCC Global Masters Competition was another resounding success,” said Seong-jin Jo, President and CEO of the LG Electronics Home Appliance Company. “This annual competition once again demonstrated the kinds of smart, healthy and tasty international dishes that can be created using LG’s Lightwave Oven. With the aid of the patented Charcoal Lighting Heater™, the contestants served up some incredible meals, which were as healthy as they were delicious.”
This Year, The World Wins
For the first time, LG paired the LG Home Chef Championship with a very worthy cause. For every recipe that was submitted to the competition, LG donated $5 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and for every recipe that was shared on Facebook, LG donated $1. That turned into a sizeable benefit for hungry people around the world.
LG ended up donated $100,000 to the WFP, while contestants offered free cooking lessons to the local South African culinary school, Infinity Culinary Training, which is a non-profit cooking school.
Get Ready for Next Year
As we reported earlier this year, almost anyone can enter the LG Home Chef Championships. Get your best recipe that uses fewer than 20 ingredients and can be made in 90 minutes or less together and refine it. Next fall you could be at the cook-off yourself, and finally get the title of world’s best home cook!
