NASSAU, Bahamas -- Last year's Food Fight winner came back from the underdog position to clinch the culinary competition's top spot. This year she will look on as a new student chef attempts to follow in her footsteps.
Alysha Dean, now a student of the prestigious culinary academy, Johnson and Wales, came back to Sandals Royal Bahamian - where her journey began - this summer. Ms. Dean was eager to get into the pastry shop and put her craft to work.
The Sandals Foundation and Sandals Royal Bahamian sponsored Food Fight is a head-to-head kitchen battle between students from grades eleven and twelve.
This year's plantain battle will have the students pit their plantain platters against one another as they vie for a $40,000 scholarship to Johnson and Wales and a summer culinary boot camp fully paid for by the school. Some of the local high schools competing for the right to be called Food Fight champions are St. Annes, C.V. Bethel, Anatol Rodgers, C.I. Gibson and C.C. Sweeting.
The student chefs have been busily preparing their plantains for battle in Island Flare's fourth annual Food Fight beginning this Friday at Sandals and culminating at The Mall At Marathon. The mall battle, which is open to the public, begins at 11:00am on Saturday at centre court.
Ms. Dean who is in her sophomore year at Johnson and Wales, said her Food Fight experience boosted her self-confidence and taught her a valuable lesson.

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