2009 Annual BCFT Student Night 
“Value of Gold Standard Recipes and Their Role in Product Development”

When: 
Tuesday, January 13th 2009, 5:30 pm to 8:15 pm

Where: 
SE2, Townsquare A / B (Rooms 212A & 212B) 
3700 Willingdon Avenue 
BCIT Burnaby Campus

Highlights of the Event:

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Check-in/Registration 
6:00 pm   Challenge Cup 
6:30 pm  Refreshments, Light meal, Networking 
7:00 pm  Speaker—Chef Charlie Baggs, President and Founder of Charlie Baggs, Inc. 
  “Value of Gold Standard Recipes and Their Role in Product Development” 
8:00 pm  Door Prizes

Cost: 
Student Members: FREE 
Student Non-Members: $5 
Members:  $20 
Non-Members:  $40 
 
    PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED or the cost will be $40 at the door regardless of membership status. 
 
   Want to find out more about what goes on in the kitchen and elsewhere to convert a recipe into something that can be used commercially? BCIT will be hosting the 2009 Annual BCFT Student Night Value of Gold Standard Recipes and Their Role in Product Development on January 13th at the Townsquare A/B, BCIT. Come and enjoy an interesting talk by an IFT Distinguished Speaker. 
   A Challenge Cup will start out the night testing your knowledge of food science, and allowing you to compete with and against other teams composed of students and industry members. The winning team will receive a prize. After the Challenge Cup a light dinner will be served and there will be networking opportunities.

   The highlight of the evening will be our IFT Distinguished Speaker, Charlie Baggs from Chicago. He will be speaking about how Gold Standard Recipes can be converted to commercial formulas. Charlie will be discussing the following topics: using functional ingredients, importance of the prototype and prototype handling, bench work set up,  freeze thaw to re-thermalization, the approval process, project management including communication and delegating, digital library, conversion to formula, preparing and showing samples, support documentation requirements, following production processes, documentation of processing instructions, identifying key processes that need developing, and quality control documentation during pilot testing. 
   Charlie Baggs is the President and founder of Charlie Baggs, Inc. and has been part of the food industry for over 20 years. Having graduated with honors at the world famous Culinary Institute of America and holding a bachelor's degree from Purdue University's School of Hotel, Tourism and Management, Chef Baggs now shares his widely acknowledged expertise and creativity with clients worldwide. Before starting Charlie Baggs, Inc., Chef Baggs was a chef at the internationally renowned Ambria and Spiaggia Restaurants in Chicago. Other outstanding work experience include being the Executive Chef of Culinary Development with Creative Food Solutions and being the creator and producer of various training documentaries for the Continuing Education Department of the Culinary Institute of America. Additionally, Chef Charlie has authored culinary articles in various industry publications.

    PARKING 
    Parking is conveniently located in staff lots 5, 7 or 8; these lots are available to the public after 4:30 pm at a cost of $3.50 for the evening. These parking lots are not accessible from Willingdon. Access from either Canada Way or Wayburne. Please see map at
http://www.bcit.ca/files/about/pdf/bcitmap.pdf.

BCFT thanks IFT for their sponsorship of this event through the IFT Distinguished Lectureship Program.