Leaving...

• This was our last week here at UGA. We got to tie up a lot of loose ends before leaving.
• Monday night was our Greek banquet for Freshmen College. We spent a lot of time getting everything set up before the event. Everything ended up looking really good and was what we had wanted. The event itself was also a success. There were over 300 attendees which was an impressive turnout. The food got a lot of compliments despite a couple of snafus. We managed to keep from overwhelming the menu with feta cheese in every dish, but the lemons snuck past us. Hopefully everyone else had as much fun with the event as we did.
• Tuesday Julia and I made our presentation on our chemical presentation to the Director of Food Services and several management people. We narrowed all of our recommendations down to 2 options for the university. It was really successful and there is now an action plan in place for UGA to follow through with the project now that we're leaving.
• Wednesday was another fun day. We got to go to the taste testing for the 5 Star Dinner menu that we put together earlier this summer. A few of the recipes had been swapped out, but the menu was still mostly intact. Each of the dining halls was asked to make several of the dishes. Then the chefs brought the food to the tasting. We got to hear about the changes that they had already made to the recipes and what other alterations were going to be necessary. Then everyone got to eat. There were a couple of crowd favorites and a few of the dishes still needed improvements, but overall it was a fun time.
• We also did the final revisions on the article that was written for NACAS. It is now completely done and has been turned in. Hopefully it is accepted for publication sometime in the next year.
• On our last day, everyone threw us a good-bye reception. Chef Bryan put together some fresh fruit and pastries for us. We got to say good-bye to everyone. Then Kris gave us our final evaluations and our summer internship was over.
• I have to say that this has been a great experience. Not only did I have a ton of fun and meet some great people this summer, but I also got a lot of hands-on training in areas that I hadn't before. The projects that we completed were really worthwhile and I'd definitely recommend for anyone interested in food in any way to consider applying for this internship.