MAY EDITION

EDWARD G. LEONARD, CMC DIRECTOROF CULINARY / EXECUTIVE CHEF FRESH MEADOW COUNTRY CLUB

Edward is one of only 73 Certified Master Chefs in the country and is one of four that also holds the master chef designation from Germany and World cooks society. Recent winner of the 2021 ACF Innovation award for Culinary Arts along with being honored this September 2021 receiving the Culinary Excellence Award for Outstanding Executive Chef and Leadership for “Private Golf or Country Clubs “ at the third annual Golf Kitchen Culinary Excellence Awards at Glen Arbor Golf Club.

He spent 13 years with the leading British hotel and catering company Trust- House Forte traveling the globe and based in New York City holding positions as Corporate Chef of North America, Director of Operations, Vice President and Executive Vice President. Hotels such as Plaza Athene, Westbury, Watergate in DC along with high end dining rooms for corpora- tions like NatWest Westminster Bank, General Electric and American Express. He spent eight plus years with the famed Westchester Country Club & Hotel. In his tenor, he placed the culinary program on the map in the club and resort world locally and globally and club became the 12th ranked Platinum club in the country. He took making an impact for the industry with students becoming Vice President of Culinary Aca- demics for Le Cordon Bleu Chef North America with 14,000 students overseeing 16 colleges, creating a restaurant and capstone concept for students last class called Technique for 13 of the colleges. He built cultures of excellence in challenging and large properties like General Electric’s World head continued on page 38