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Under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister ofTourism Fady Abboud, HORECA 2012 inaugurated its much-anticipated annual show at Biel on Tuesday, March 20, in thepresence of distinguished personalities and presidents of unionsand associations, as well as ambassadors and mediarepresentatives.

HORECA executive director, Joumana Dammous-Salamé, voicedher delight at having Italy as the "Country in theSpotlight" this year.Fifteen Italian companies grouped to promotetheir expertise in the field of equipment, food, wines and spirits,products, materials and hospitality management services.

The largest and best attended exhibition, HORECA 2012, is amagnet for both Lebanon and the region’s hospitality industryand has played an important role in boosting the country’seconomy, with participants extending from well beyond theregion’s borders and including official pavilions.

The four-day event attracted a staggering 12,000 visitors fromvarious industry fields across the region. They visited an extensivevariety of exhibitors and attended an exceptional array of morethan 9 daily activities that included a series of competitions andlive shows, in which more than 400 participants from a multitudeof establishments showcased their skills over.

The Annual Hospitality Forum, a series of workshops, took placealongside Horeca covering several topics on the latest consumerand product trends influencing the industry. The Int'l Food SafetySeminar by The Federation of Chambers of Commerce, Industryand Agriculture in Lebanon (FCCIAL) was held on March 22. Andthe National Food Industry Day by the Syndicate of LebaneseFood Industries in collaboration with the Ministry of Economyand Trade and United Agency for International Development -UNIDO was held on March 23.

Horeca 2013, the 20th edition will take place from April 9 -12

19th editionHORECA 2012 surpasses all expectations

The largest hospitality and food exhibition in Lebanonopened its doors and confirmed Beirut as “Capital of Taste”

HORECA FACTSExhibitors: More than 400 | Visitors: +12,000Square meters: 7,000 sqm of stands & 2,000 sqm of daily events Pavilions: France, Iran, Italy, Thailand & TurkeyIndividual companies: Cyprus, France, Iran, Italy, Jordan, KSA, Kuwait,Mexico, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey & UAE

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News from HORECA Quality products from established suppliersU-Food sal, a leading distributor of multinational brands operating in Lebanon, wasestablished in 1994 to import fresh products from France and has grown to becomeone of the major players in the specialty cheese market. Over the years, U-food hasevolved to include a large and innovative assortment of quality food products. It is thesole representative of international brands and its major suppliers are mainly Europeancompanies. U-Food’s participation at Horeca 2012 was really distinguished. Theypresented Diamantina, Australia’s finest beef, and were one of the silver sponsors ofthe Salon Culinaire. They organized several tasting sessions at the Meat LivestockAustralia (MLA) booth where professional buyers were able to taste differentDiamantina cuts. In addition to the Salon Culinaire, U-Food presented Boursin’s newconcept, Boursin Tartine, at the French pavilion. Visitors were able to appreciateBoursin’s Tartine éclats de Noix, Ciboulette corsée and well-known Ail et Fines herbesflavors. u-foodsal.com

Behind every great recipe, a great productTanmia was the Platinum sponsor of the highlysuccessful, lively and animated Atelier Gourmand.Throughout the show chefs and food connoisseursimparted their skills. Two of the leading culinary artiststhat exhibited their talents in front of an appreciativeaudience were chefs Daoud Hanna and Khalil Maalouf.Chef Daoud Hanna, 2nd place winner in Top Chef 2011,and Chef Khalil Maalouf, gold medal winner of theKuwaiti’s HORECA 2011 in the Lebanese Mezza category, both welcomed the idea ofcooking with Tanmia chicken, because it meets their standards of health, cleanlinessand taste. On the menu were Chef Daoud’s Warm Chicken Salad and Chef Khalil’sChicken Filet with Herbs and Lemon Sauce. Both meals were meticulously preparedby the chefs using Tanmia and were tasted by the visitors who described them asinnovative and succulent. Trust Tanmia for the most creative, delicious meals and toawaken the chef in you. tanmia.com

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ANNUALHOSPITALITYFORUM

FLORAL SYMPHONIES

Media LoungeLibrairie Gourmande

Mohammad Najia, Ghassan Aidi at the Gold Club Lounge Hospitality Services stand

Packaging Innovation Park

International Food Safety seminar

Syndicate of Lebanese

Food Industries seminar

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HOSPITALITY SALON CULINAIRE

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Arabic Sweets Gold Alaa Ashrafi Le Royal Hotel Beirut (2) • Silver Ziad Iskandaran Moevenpick Hotel& Resort Beirut • Bronze Mohamad Ali Chennawi Al Tom Brothers • MahmoudOndash Phoenicia Hotel Beirut

Cold CanapésGold 1st Gold • Raouf Zeaiter Le Royal Hotel Beirut (23) • Hadi Saroufim Le VendomeBeirut InterContinental (12) • Bassel Haidar Phoenicia Hotel Beirut (5) • Silver

Rodrigue Jabbour Le Gray Hotel • Bronze Georges Khouryaty InterContinentalMountain Resort And Spa Mzaar

Cold Platter Of Fish Poultry Or MeatGold 1st Gold • Assaad Akl Burgundy Wine Bar (4) • Maroun Harb Le Royal HotelBeirut (20) • Silver Ali Lakkis Moevenpick Hotel & Resort Beirut • Bronze Hani YounisHazmieh Rotana Hotel • Hani Matar Holiday Inn Beirut Dunes Hotel • HusseinKheireddine Phoenicia Hotel Beirut

Live Cold Sandwich Making CompetitionGold 1st Gold • Rita Kareh Shtrumpf (22) • Mahmoud Baarini Gala Catering (16)

• Hamza Haj Hassan Le Gray Hotel (8) • Ihab Nassar Moevenpick Hotel & ResortBeirut (9) • Silver Dany Haber Casper And Gambinis • Fadel Abbas Choukeir LarissaCatering • Georges Hayek Le Royal Hotel Beirut • Mohammad Nehmeh PhoeniciaHotel Beirut • Ahmad Al Ess Phoenicia Hotel Beirut • Ali Hajj Hussein Safir HeliopolitanHotel Beirut • Mazen Mattar Shtrumpf • Nicolas Sodette Sofil Catering • PascalKhairallah Zouki For Lebanon • Bronze Mario Najem Casper and Gambinis • IbrahimKhalil La Table D'Alfred • Mohamad Jaber Le Gray Hotel • Walid Moustafa Le RoyalHotel Beirut • Grace Abi Khattar Le Royal Hotel Beirut • Antoun Naiim Shtrumpf

Live CreationGold Antonio Chamoun & Hussein Shhoury La Table D'Alfred (3) • Silver HusseinHajj Sleiman & Ziad El Haber Phoenicia Hotel Beirut • Bronze Abdo Chdid & AliHijazi Le Gray Hotel • Nabil Fayad & Ahmad Moussa Sofil Catering

Live Fruit And Vegetable CarvingGold Tawee Chai Saithong Phoenicia Hotel Beirut (26) • Silver Charbel KaramCountry Lodge Club & Resort • Issam Wehbeh Gefinor Rotana Hotel

Live Meat Dish CompetitionGold Khalil Ramadan & Amer Reslan Le Gray Hotel (13) • Silver Hilal Kaafarani &Mohamad Allam Momo At The Souks • Mohammad Allam & Ali Ayoub PhoeniciaHotel Beirut • Bronze Mohamad Ezzedine & Ali Saad Moevenpick Hotel & ResortBeirut • Wissam Abdel Baki & Khalil Rabah Phoenicia Hotel Beirut • Ibrahim Jomaa& Patrick Khoury Shtrumpf

Live MezzaGold Hicham Farhat & Alaa Assaf Phoenicia Hotel Beirut (11) • Silver Nadia Sahab &Kifah Mawafak Gefinor Rotana Hotel • Bronze Raed Kordab & Omar Taleb CapitalRestaurant • Ibrahim Hazoury & Jad Hobeish Raouche Arjaan by Rotana

Open ShowpieceGold Ahmad Farhat Four Seasons Beirut (1) • Mohamad Hamouch Moevenpick Hotel& Resort Beirut (17) • Bronze Richard Makhoul Gefinor Rotana Hotel • Omar GhanamLe Gray Hotel

Single Tier Novelty CakeGold Nasser Merhi Safir Heliopolitan Hotel Beirut (24)

• Silver Georges Bou Khazen Sofil Catering • Bronze

Hussein Farhat Golden Tulip Galleria Hotel • WaelDaher Le Gray Hotel

Six Course Set Dinner MenuGold Nader Shamseddine Phoenicia Hotel Beirut (21)

• Elie Menhem Le Royal Hotel Beirut (7) • Silver AlaaMasri Moevenpick Hotel & Resort Beirut • Hadi KhalilSofil Catering • Bronze Rudy Gerges Gala Catering• Mohamad Oraybeh Hazmieh Rotana Hotel • RamiSamit Le Blanc Catering • Joe Hajj Le Vendome BeirutInterContinental

Three Plated Dessert PresentationGold Rami Boutros Bread and Roses (25) • MarieTherese El Kassis Le Royal Hotel Beirut (18) • Silver

Saleh Al Mawla Le Gray Hotel • Ali Beddah SofilCatering • Bronze Hassan Mattar Hazmieh RotanaHotel • Hussein Nasser Holiday Inn Beirut Dunes Hotel• Kassem Majed Phoenicia Hotel Beirut

Live Lebanese DishSilver • Georges Debes & Rami Saade CapitalRestaurant • Mohamad Haidar & Chady Bou Chakra LeRoyal Hotel Beirut • Bronze Kamil Feghali & MarounHamzo Casper & Gambinis • Dany Tabet & YehyaRawas Moevenpick Hotel & Resort Beirut • HichamFarhat & Ahmad Tahan Phoenicia Hotel Beirut • Abdallah Sleiman & Hussein Haydar Saida Rest House

Cup Cake CompetitionBronze Ali Zein Moevenpick Hotel & Resort Beirut

Live Junior Chef CompetitionGold Elie Abi Nader & Elie Haddad AUST - AmericanUniversity of Science & Technology (27)

Judes and organizing committee

Ecole Hotelière Zgarta students

Rabih Nehme Chady El Hajj

Joe Barza, Claire Verneil, Guillome Gomez,

Jean-Francois LeMercier

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• Silver Georges Nassar & Marc Hage CIT - Centre International des SciencesTechniques • Christian Akiki & Michael El Murr NDU - Notre Dame University • RitaYazbeck & Natacha Keuchguerian USJ - Institut des Gestion des Entreprises • FirasMerhej & Walid Francis NDU - Notre Dame University • Bronze Rita El Hage & JunayaNakhal University of Balamand • Ahmad Jouni & Issa Mokdad AUL - Arts, Sciences &Technology University in Lebanon • Michelle Nasr & Ahmad Al Sayed AUST - AmericanUniversity of Science & Technology • Rami Mahmoud & Bachir Harballi Ecole Hoteliere- Bir Hasan • Yves Osta & Rodrick Al Achkar LTA - Lycee Technique Ajaltoun

Live Junior Cold Sandwich Making CompetitionGold Rachel Bado NDU - Notre Dame University (19) • Elie Haddad AUST - AmericanUniversity of Science & Technology (6) • Naiim El Mir LTA - Lycee Technique Ajaltoun(14) • Kamil Sayah USJ - Institut des Gestion des Entreprises • Silver Ahmad JouniAUL - Arts, Sciences & Technology University in Lebanon • Rouba Ayoub AUST -American University of Science & Technology • Ahmad Al Sayed AUST - AmericanUniversity of Science & Technology • Elie Abou Nader AUST - American University ofScience & Technology • Raymonda El Chami LTA - Lycee Technique Ajaltoun • SarahBaydoun NDU - Notre Dame University • Micheal Abi Nakhoul NDU - Notre Dame

University • Christiane Awad NDU - Notre DameUniversity • Flavia Khoury University of Balamand •Bronze Marc Hage CIT - Centre International desSciences Techniques • Rita El Kai LTA - LyceeTechnique Ajaltoun • Tony Jabbour NDU - NotreDame University

Service CompetitionGold Marc Sfeir & Reine Zgheib LTA - LyceeTechnique Ajaltoun (15) • Silver Lyne Jisr & FlaviaKhoury University of Balamand • Bronze RoubaAyoub & Samer Sokhen AUST - American Universityof Science & Technology • Maria Garahed & MarinaJisry CIT - Centre International des SciencesTechniques • Melissa Haddad & Celine Daou NDU -Notre Dame University • Joseph Zaylah & MelissaNicolaos NDU - Notre Dame University

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• Le Royal Hotel Beirut

• Phoenicia Hotel Beirut

• Le Gray Hotel

• Moevenpick Hotel & Resort Beirut

• Bread And Roses

• Burgundy Wine Bar

• Four Seasons Beirut

• Gala Catering

• La Table D'alfred

• Le Vendome Beirut InterContinental

• Safir Heliopolitan Hotel Beirut

• Shtrumpf

• Sofil Catering

• Gefinor Rotana Hotel

• Capital Restaurant

• Casper & Gambinis

• Country Lodge Club & Resort

• Larissa Catering

• Momo at the Souks

• Zouki for Lebanon

• Hazmieh Rotana Hotel

• Holiday Inn Beirut Dunes Hotel

• Golden Tulip Galleria Hotel

• Intercontinental Mountain Resort and Spa Mzaar

• Le Blanc Catering

• Raouche Arjaan by Rotana

• Saida Rest House

• Al Tom Brothers

• Eatalian

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• L.T.A. - Lycee Technique Ajaltoun

• N.D.U - Notre Dame University

• U.S.J - Institut des Gerstion des Entreprises

• University Of Balamand

• A.U.L - Arts, Sciences & Technology University in Lebanon

• C.I.T. - Centre International des Sciences Techniques

• Ecole Hoteliere - Bir Hasan

• L.A.U - Lebanese American University

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Hospitality Salon Culinaire Winners

Live Junior Chefs Competition Winners

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The Atelier Gourmand &

Lebanese Culinary Heritage isa deliciously unique event whereprominent international chefsunleash their talent and invitetrade visitors to participate intasting sessions on a definedcooking or product theme. Thisyear’s busy schedule includedsome not to missed highlights.

British forager, Miles Irving,came to Lebanon to explore itswild plants, and he discovered astrong tradition of using suchplants in the Lebanon’s cuisine.“We hope that the new trendhitting Europe will inciteLebanese chefs to go back tothis tradition that is still verymuch alive in their homes.”

Turkey’s foremost female chefand founder of the IstanbulCulinary Institute, Hande

Bozdogan, explained how theMediterranean way of eating inthe world started as a trend itself.With more olive oil and lessbutter, with more fish and lessmeat, with more grains andvegetable, the Mediterranean diethas became the healthy way oflife, specially that is tastes so good.

Tony Ramy, owner of SultanBrahim restaurant group,revealed variations of our belovedhummus in a lively tastingsession. Attendees’ taste budswere tickled by 11 varieties ofhummus. “Choosing the rightchick peas, one that is small andvery dry, is essential is hummusmaking,” explains Ramy.

Wearing miniature spoons andspatulas for earrings, Suzanne

Husseini gave the public a tasteof her unique cooking. Husseinihas a very intimate relation withfood. “When I cook any dish, Igo back down memory lane tounique souvenirs around food. Itry to breathe life into everythingI cook”

ATELIER GOURMAND & LEBANESE

CULINARY HERITAGE Khalil Maalouf

Sleiman Khawand Claire Verneil Tawlet Souk El Tayeb

Mohamed Ourad Daoud Hanna Hande Bozdogan Suzanne Husseini Miles Irving

Conosci il Tuo Pasto Certification Remy Lefebvre and Barbara Massaad

Al Sultan Brahim Team

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Wine lovers and connoisseurs had the opportunity tosample local and regional production of wine andspirits. From wine to arak, passing by beer and non-alcoholic drinks, such as soft drinks, mineral waterand juices, the Wine and Beverage Lab quenchedevery beverage enthusiast thirst.

The Lab, hosted by wine specialist Mr. NajibMoutran, offered a series of workshops on wine andarak production, as well as samplings of the latestreleases and blind tastings. Industry experts offeredmaster classes and short workshops on wine, spiritsand non-alcoholic beverages. Staged in an interactivesetting, the sessions resulted in a unique exchangeof professional know-how.

Wine ServiceCompetition

1st Winner Elie Nehme LaPosta Restaurant2nd Winner Bernard El

Helou Harbor 2013rd Winner Bahaa Eddine

Nazih al Hariri Momo at theSouksBest Wine List

The Gathering Bar & Cellar

BEVERAGE AND WINE LAB

gold medal winners take a bow

Wine Service Competition Judges: Katty Hark, Fady leSidon,Najib

Motran, Salim Hleywa, Gaby Bustros, Rania Chouaifaty Philippe Guillon and Najib Motran Mazen Hajjar

Aziz Wardy Adrea Fidora Nagy Rizk Fady Jaadan Wine Sevice Competition Winners

Micheal Karam Bahaa Eddine Al Hariri Bernard El Helou Elie Nehme Sevag Jerejian

Wine makers round table

82 - Hospitality News - N° 81 - APR / MAY 2012

HEARD AND SEEN HORECA

The National Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Competition that took place atHORECA 2012 revealed greaterawareness in olive oil production andmore educated Lebanese consumers.

“This is the 7th year we organize thecontest and it is the first time we have 9nominees. In the previous years thenumber did not go over 4 or 5nominees,” explains Nell Abou-Ghazale

Hasbani, coordinator of the competition.The nominees were selected on thequality of their oil, which is tested in thelab for several indicators. Extra VirginOlive Oil (EVOO) should test below 0.8%for acidity, below 20 for peroxides. Suchattributes come from careful handpicking, quick pressing after picking,proper storage, etc.

A panel of regional experts decided onthe best EVVO by local producers andby local brands. However, continuoustasting and voting by visitors, as well asby members of the press revealed thatthe public is more aware of what goodolive oil is all about. “In the past, whenpeople tasted the EVVO, its bitternesswas not very well received. 7 years laterthe votes are changing as the public ismore aware that a good olive oil is abalance of bitterness, fruitiness andpungency,” says Abou-Ghazale Hasbani.

Another competition was the Best Label& Bottle competition where the judgesrepresenting leading adverting agenciesin town voted for the best label andbottle package. “Lebanese consumerslike to see the oil they buy but oil isbetter protected when stored in darkbottles,” says Abou-Ghazale Hasbini

THE NATIONAL EXTRA VIRGIN

OLIVE OIL COMPETITION

Producers categoryFirst • Raffoul Raffoul Cooperative for the development and man factureof olive produce in Darboachter al Koura Ltd. • Second Joseph KhouryWillani • Third Katherine Ann Fawaz and Anwar Nakfoor • Guy KhouryBiogourmet SAL

Brands categoryFirst • Qadisha Valley by Biogourmet SAL

Best label & bottel categoryFirst • Biomass by Biomass SAL • Second Qadisha Valley by BiogourmetSAL • Third Sidonia by Greenpack for Lebanese Agro Industries SARL

Joseph Massoud - Biomass

Guy Khoury rep - Biogourmet Qadisha Valley rep - Biogourmet

Raffoul Raffoul

Cooperative rep

Joweph Khoury-Willani

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