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March 1, 2007 - Milestone Culinary Arts Center and The Viking Cooking School welcomes new Executive Director

The Milestone Culinary Arts Center (MCAC) and The Viking Cooking School is pleased to announce Chef Sharon Van Meter, W.M.C.S, as it's new Executive Director.

"Chef Sharon Van Meter brings to the center her incredible wealth of culinary knowledge and commitment to excellence in cuisine and hospitality," said Ramsay Woodall, Vice President of Milestone Distributors. "She insists that every culinary experience be a multi-dimensional sensory delight in which every aspect of the experience exceeds expectations. She delivers the same high caliber as the excellent quality and luxury of product lines that we distribute."

Chef Sharon Van Meter, W.M.C.S, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, France, and brings over thirty years of culinary experiences to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Chef Van Meter has served the culinary world as Executive Chef at the Ritz Carlton, Chicago and International, Professor of American Cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, France, Neiman Marcus, Dallas Texas, as well as numerous other restaurants and hospitality areas. Sharon now served as Director of New Projects Development for FOOD Network TV and is President of SVM productions as well as Executive Director of Milestone Culinary Arts Center and the Viking Cooking School.

Chef Van Meter has been inducted in the honorable culinary societies of Epicurean World Master Chefs Society, Les Dames d'Escoffier and Euro-Toques International.

Her humanitarian efforts range from the fight on hunger with Share Our Strength's "Taste of the Nation" to the National Aids Foundation "Touring Chefs" to Habitat for Humanity "House Party".

In 1994, Euro Toques International named her "Chef of the Year" and she received the National Restaurant Association "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1997.

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