For Immediate Release                                                                              Contact: Russell Stubblefield
Nov. 7, 2003                                                                                                            Phone: (662) 329-7119

MUW’s Chef Labensky selected for inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in the World
 

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Chef Sarah R. Labensky, Mississippi University for  Women Culinary Arts Institute director, has been selected for inclusion  in “Marquis Who’s Who in the World,” to be published in December 2003. Who’s Who in the World focuses on the lives and careers of a select  group of men and women from many different fields to form a magnificent biographical collection.

Chef Labensky was first included in Who’s Who in the World in 2001 and  has been included in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women since 2000.

Founding director of MUW’s Culinary Arts Institute, she teaches  management courses, cooking and administers the university’s four-year baccalaureate degree program. Prior to joining the MUW faculty, she was
a professor of culinary arts at Scottsdale (Arizona) Community College.

Before teaching, she worked as a pastry cook and caterer.

She is co-author of the best-selling culinary textbook, “On Cooking: A  Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals,” which was nominated for an International Association of Culinary Professsional/Julia Child Cookbook
award. Labensky also is a Certified Culinary Professional (CCP).

Labensky is active in many professional organizations and is currently  vice president/president-elect of the IACP. She is a member of The American Culinary Federation and Les Dames d’ Escoffier.

 

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