Albin takes home the gold

Our young, but already successful chef Albin Petersson took home the gold with the Stockholm Culinary Team as the world's best regional team. The Culinary World Cup 2018 took place in Luxembourg on November 24–28 and is a competition in culinary art that is judged on appearance and technique. Here, over 30 countries compete in different categories for prestigious titles and the competition is high. Albin, who has only been employed at Vår Gård since 2017, is a wonderful source of joy among his colleagues in the kitchen. Here he talks about his journey towards the World Cup gold:

- The training started for me in February when I was accepted as a student to this fantastic team. After many months of practice, it was time to head to Luxembourg. Four days before the competition, we packed our truck with all the equipment and set off. When we arrived at the hotel where we were staying, we went through the kitchen and the venue. Everything looked very good and I had a very good feeling. Then on Monday morning we started preparing and drove all day and evening. Tuesday - the day before the competition. I started to get very nervous. I was responsible for making small salad bouquets for our show dish.
I started on Tuesday evening by gelling all my herbs for the salad and almost immediately felt that I was a little short of time and the stress and panic got to me straight away. I fought hard and drove all night. Everything was supposed to be ready and packed at 03:00 and we were finished a few minutes late but it went well. I felt a great sense of relief that everything had gone well and I was happy with what I had done.

- Then part of the team went to the fair to prepare our table. We were at the fair all day and in the afternoon we found out how we were doing before the big award ceremony. Then you get gold, silver or bronze points, we of course got gold points. Nice feeling. The next day was the big award ceremony and I have never been so nervous as then. They first called out those who came third, second and then first. When we were neither second nor third, I thought "wait now, what happens now"? Then they called us out as winners - the world's best regional team! The feeling was completely indescribable and we were WORLD CHAMPIONS. So up on stage and received medals and the big trophy. Absolutely crazy, the biggest moment of my life. Then of course there was a party and celebration all evening. We went home tired and happy the next day.

- This was my first big competition but not my last. This spurred me on extremely to continue competing, but now I have some Christmas break and well-deserved rest. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the team for a fantastic trip and an experience I will never forget.

Albin Peterson - Stockholm Culinary Team, world champion 2018!