Big Wheel Burger is one of the restaurants participating in Camosun Food Affair (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKitts says that since restaurants had been allowed to open with established protocols in place, this would be a good way to bring people together in a COVID-safe manner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where it kind of came from, then we reached out to Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts to see where some of our alumni are, like where are they working, who employs a lot of our students, and what restaurants were started by Camosun alumni? So we started there and we just kept adding on,\u201d says Kitts.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things we wanted to do was show the local community our gratitude for supporting our students for the last 50 years, either the Culinary Arts or the Hospitality Management students, but a lot of our other students are also servers in restaurants and work in hotels, so we thought we would drive businesses to them, as our way of saying thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kitts says that while the common theme uniting the restaurants is the college’s 50th anniversary, the restaurants are given the creative freedom to come up with dishes that reflect their own identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re leaving it up to each restaurant to come up with something, because every restaurant has their own menu, their own culture to their menu… It could be a Thai restaurant or whatever. [Camosun Trades Development and Special Projects chair] Steve Walker-Duncan had recommended it to some of the people, the chefs, as a Camosun alum, to recreate their final project, because they would have done a capstone project to get their Red Seal,\u201d she says. \u201cOther restaurants are just going to pull things together, like we know Brentwood Bay is going to do a Camosun-themed nacho. I don\u2019t know what that means, but we\u2019re going to leave it to them to be creative. Zambri’s said they were going to do a Camosun-themed pasta\u2014I have no idea what that\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kitts says that food is an important part of culture, and it\u2019s a great way for people to get together and appreciate their friends, family, and neighbours.<\/p>\n
\u201cCamosun is a very important part of this community, and we have a reason to celebrate. This is our opportunity to celebrate, maybe not all together, but from Sooke to Sidney to downtown to Cowichan, we\u2019re going to be able to celebrate Camosun\u2019s 50th anniversary,\u201d she says. \u201cIn almost every culture, food is a unifying event… Any time there\u2019s food, that\u2019s family.\u201d<\/p>\n
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