Press Release

Learned Receives 2005 Hermann G. Rusch Award

St. Augustine, Fla., August 1, 2005—Phil Learned, CEC, AAC, received American Culinary Federation (ACF) Hermann G. Rusch Chef’s Achievement Award for 2005 at the ACF National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

The Hermann G. Rusch Chef’s Achievement Award recognizes the ACF chef who has generously shared his/her knowledge with others throughout the years, and continues to be a source of information and guidance for other culinarians.

Learned, the director of food service and a managing partner at The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, is an ACF certified executive chef (CEC) and member of the American Academy of Chefs (AAC). He began working at the hotel in 1966 as the executive chef. Learned was one of the founding members of the first ACF chapter in New Hampshire, and also started the first culinary apprenticeship program in New Hampshire in 1978. He received the AAC’s Sharing Culinary Traditions Award in 2003.

The American Culinary Federation, Inc. (ACF), established in 1929, is the premier professional organization for culinarians in America. With nearly 20,000 members and 240 chapters nationwide, ACF offers educational resources, training, professional certification, apprenticeship and accreditation programs. In addition, the ACF is the presidium for the World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS), the international network of chefs associations, with more than eight million members globally. For more information, please visit www.acfchefs.org.

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Contact: Lisa Alessandro, APR
(904) 824-4468, ext. 103
lalessandro@acfchefs.net

• Learned Receives 2005 Hermann G. Rusch Award