Hospitality Review Oct 2018 - Digital copy

Drysdale NEWS Drysdale trained cookery apprentice named Apprentice of the Year

Drysdale-trained apprentice, Harry Cuthbertson was named Apprentice of the Year at the Tasmanian Training Awards on 7 September. Harry, 34, completed a Certificate III in Commercial Cookery at Drysdale Devonport. He was selected from a field of nine finalists in the apprentice category for the prestigious award, and will represent Tasmania at the Australian Training Awards in Sydney in November. TasTAFE CEO, Jenny Dodd said it was great to see an apprentice of Harry’s calibre recognised. “We’re thrilled that through our training at Drysdale, we have contributed to Harry’s success. We train our apprentices in partnership with industry, so this award is testament to Harry’s hard work and the quality of the training he has received at Drysdale and in his employment,” Ms Dodd said. A former apprentice at The Chapel in Burnie, Harry has just started his own business called Knife for Hire, which offers temporary cooking in restaurants as needs arise. When accepting his award, Harry thanked his teachers and trainers at Drysdale Devonport as well as all of the head chefs and cooks he has worked with. “All my teachers have been amazing teachers and really incredible trainers and I’m really grateful to have such high quality trainers - they’ve taught me so much so I really appreciate that.

“I’m really grateful to my bosses Andrew and Lydia and Kelly from the Chapel, she was my head chef – I’m really grateful to those guys. Also some of my other head chef and bosses - Joe Bugg, Duncan Oliver, Ben Morton, the late Rebecca Sullivan from Ginger Brown, as well as all the other chefs and cooks that I’ve ever worked with and I’ve learnt something from – thank you! “As an apprentice you put in so much time and effort and it’s a lot of hard work so an award like this is so incredible and I’m just so honoured to receive it.” Harry is now enrolled in a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment at TasTAFE, with a future vision to educate in the industry. He has also been working as a farm hand, milking cows in a dairy to gain more experience and first-hand knowledge of where food comes from. The father of three, soon to be four, juggles his passion for cooking with a second job as a pastor at a church in Wynyard. His long-term plan is to create a church teaching kitchen at Wynyard that includes an organic community garden, providing an opportunity to teach cooking and life skills to people in the local community. Drysdale is the tourism and hospitality training division of TasTAFE.

TasTAFE CEO, Jenny Dodd; Apprentice of the Year, Harry Cuthbertson; Minister for Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff, and 2017 Apprentice of the Year, Ashton Brown.

October 2018 www.tha.asn.au

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