Austrian chef to share culinary skills with students, guests at March 23 dinner

Austrian Chef Wolfgang Ruzicka will be a guest of the Elgin Community College Visiting Chef Dinner Series on Thursday, March 23. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Spartan Terrace Restaurant, Building I at the college, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.

At 22 years of age, Ruzicka became one of the youngest chefs in Austria to receive an award from Gault Millau, an influential French restaurant guide. He started as an apprentice in the famous Grand Hotel Panhans in Semmering, Austria, and in the following years completed his education for health kitchen and nutrition. Ruzicka has been an instructor in the Tourism School of Semmering since 2005 and is author of "Das Semmering-Kochbuch" ("The Semmering Cookbook").

As part of the Visiting Chef Dinner Series, Ruzicka will spend the day lecturing and working with students of the college's Culinary Arts and Hospitality Program to prepare the evening's meal.

Reservations are $60 per person and available by calling the ECC Arts Center Box Office at (847) 622-0300 or online at tickets.elgin.edu.

For more information about Spartan Terrace Restaurant, visit www.elgin.edu/spartanterrace.