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Lakes Region Community College Hospitality Students: Matt, Ben and Chris

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NEW! Lakes Region Cooking Show

LRCC Program Coordinator Patrick Hall brought several hospitality students to Cactus Jack’s in Laconia location on Route 3, Union Ave on Paugus Bay of Lake Winnipesaukee. Chef Nicole Barreira, Special Events Chef for Great New Hampshire Restaurants provided instruction to the students and LRPA TV audiences were treated to learning the secrets of making Cactus Jack's signature dishes including Seafood Gumbo and grilling Andouille Sausage that was purchased from a local NH smokehouse, North Country Smokehouse.

The second of the Lakes Region Cooking Show series was recently filmed and will feature students, Chris Young and Matthew O’Brien learning a T-Bone’s Great American Eatery’s favorite, Baked Stuffed Scallops Mornay and Montreal Grilled Salmon. Watch the LRPA schedule for air times!

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LAKES REGION ASSOCIATION
RESTAURANT PROGRAM
“Lakes Region Cooking Show”

The Lakes Region Association in conjunction with the Lakes Region Community Technical College Hospitality Program and Lakes Region Public Access-TV is developing a Cooking Show.

The purpose of the Lakes Region Cooking Show is to provide a learning experience for hospitality students to meet and work with area chefs while educating the community on the wonderful menus and restaurants the area has to offer. The Cooking Show will allow students to network with chefs from different restaurants in the Lakes Region and Central New Hampshire; learn to cook a new signature dishes and to develop skills on public speaking and presenting.

The 30 minute show will be filmed twice a month at different restaurant locations. The show will be aired at a variety of dates and times for up to two weeks through Lakes Region Public Access-TV. Lakes Region Public Access represents ten communities and reaches over 32,000 households. The show will broadcast through Metrocast on cable channel 25.

To be a featured restaurant sponsor of the Lakes Region Cooking Show the cost is $350. This would include a 30 minute filming at your restaurant with your chef(s) and area hospitality students from the Lakes Region Community Technical College Hospitality Program. As a sponsor your logo and tagline will be featured in the credits at the beginning and end of the show as stated below.

This program was made possible through a sponsorship by “Name of the Restaurant” and goods and services used in this program were contributed by “Name of Restaurant or Vendor”.

If your interested in learning more about the Lakes Region Cooking Show contact Amy Landers at the Lakes Region Association 286-8008 or alanders@lakesregion.org.

OUR FIRST SHOW

Amy Landers, Executive Director of the Lakes Region Association; Nicole Barreira, Special Events Chef at T-Bones Great American Eatery & Cactus Jack's; Patrick Hall, Chef and Program Director at Lakes Region Community College; LRCC Students: Chris Young, Matthew O'Brien, Patrick Ferland.

For immediate release
January 7, 2009

Contact: Amy Landers, Executive Director
Lakes Region Association (603) 286-8008 alanders@lakesregion.org

NEW LAKES REGION COOKING SHOW AIRES ON LAKES REGION PUBLIC ACCESS TV
-- A new collaboration between Lakes Region Association member restaurants and Lakes Region Community College's Hospitality Program

Tilton NH - The Lakes Association in conjunction with the Lakes Region Community College (LRCC) Hospitality Program and Lakes Region Public Access (LRPA)-TV kicked off it's new Lakes Region Cooking Show recently. The 30-minute show will be filmed at different restaurant locations providing a unique learning experience and networking opportunities for hospitality students and providing the community with a taste of the wonderful restaurants and menus in the area.

Great New Hampshire Restaurants: T-Bones Great American Eatery & CJ's Great West Grill kicked off the new cooking show by hosting LRCC hospitality students and LRCC Program Coordinator Patrick Hall at their Laconia location on Route 107, Union Ave on Paugus Bay of Lake Winnipesaukee. Providing instruction to the LRCC Hospitality Students was Chef Nicole Barreira, Special Events Chef for Great New Hampshire Restaurants. The students and LRPA TV audiences were treated to learning the secrets of making T-Bones & Cactus Jack's signature dishes including Seafood Gumbo and grilling Andouille Sausage that was purchased from a local NH smokehouse, North Country Smokehouse.

Each Lakes Region Cooking Show will be aired on a variety of dates and times for up to two weeks on Metrocast, cable channel 25. Lakes Region Public Access represents ten communities and reaches over 32,000 households.

Established in 1936, the Lakes Region Association's mission is to promote the Lakes Region of New Hampshire as a year-round destination to bring more visitors to the area and economically benefit our member's businesses. The Association is a non-profit organization focusing solely on Tourism Marketing & Promotion. To assist our region's guests and member businesses to connect, the association develops and distributes nearly 1 million publications including 300,000 Where to! Lakes Region of New Hampshire, a comprehensive guide to the area, 600,000 Lakes Region Map and Guide and 50,000 Holiday Brochures. The Lakes Region Association also maintains several supporting websites including ones for group travelers, travel writers, Yuletide Magic holiday travel, and historical walking tours in addition to their primary tourism information site www.LakesRegion.org for up to the minute happenings, property and entertainment listings, vacation travel incentives, photo tours and so much more. For information on obtaining your copy of our Map & Guidebook or making the Lakes Region Association your marketing arm to effectively reach local, domestic and international markets, contact our expert staff at 603-286-8008.

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A Taste of the Lakes Region

By VICTORIA GUAY
vguay@citizen.com
Sunday, January 18, 2009

TBone's Seafood Gumbo and grilled Andouille sausage, shown here, was one of the signature dishes culinary students at Lakes Region Community College recently learned how to make. The visit marks the first in a series that will see students visiting other area restaurants. Courtesy photo

For those who have wondered how area chefs create their signature dishes, a new show on Lakes Region Public Access aims to please — and tempt the taste buds.

Amy Landers, the executive director of the Lakes Region Association, a nonprofit tourism and marketing organization in Tilton, said the first episode of "The Lakes Region Cooking Show" will air soon on Lakes Region Public Access and will feature culinary students from Lakes Region Community College learning how to make seafood gumbo and Andouille sausage at Cactus Jack's in Laconia.

Landers is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Hospitality Programs at the Lakes Region Community College, a committee that is always looking for ways to gain more exposure for the hospitality and culinary programs.

Landers said it was at one of the committee meetings that she suggested a cooking show to educate the committee about the hospitality programs.

Patrick Hall, program director of the hospitality programs at the college and an Advisory Committee member, said he suggested bringing some of the culinary students to area restaurants as a learning experience.

Hall said Amy Landers, executive director of the Lakes Region Association in Tilton, expressed interest in the idea and added her suggestion that the visits could be filmed.

After a busy summer for both Hall and Landers, the project started taking shape in the fall and the first restaurant visit was filmed just before Christmas.

Hall said he took three of his senior culinary program students to Cactus Jack's in Laconia, which is owned by Great New Hampshire Restaurants, where Nicole Barreira, special events chef, demonstrated how to make some signature dishes.

Halls said the filming went well and the students got to see how the kitchen was organized and learn different cooking techniques.

"It's a great way to introduce students to different area restaurants and different styles of cooking," Hall said. "It is also a great way to let the community know about our program and about the different types of cuisine we have in the Lakes Region."

For the Lakes Region Association, Landers said the show is a great opportunity to enhance the partnership with the college while providing an added benefit to the association's restaurant-owning members.

"The goal of the Lakes Region Cooking Show is to provide the community with new recipes to use in their homes, educate the region about the Lakes Region Community Technical College, enrich the students education with a hands-on, live cooking show and provide more exposure for the many wonderful restaurants we have in the area," Landers said.

The first episode was filmed on Dec. 17 and will air soon after Lakes Region Public Access completes the editing and production.

Landers said Lakes Region Public Access was enthusiastic about the idea of the Lakes Region Cooking Show because nothing like it is currently being done in the region.

The cooking show is the first project the Lakes Region Association has done with Lakes Region Public Access.

The next filming will be done in early February at T-Bones Great American Eatery in Laconia, owned by the same parent company and located in the same building as Cactus Jack's.

"We will move the show around to other restaurants to provide exposure for our restaurant members and allow the students at Lakes Region Community Technical College to network with other chefs," Landers said.

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