05/07/2008 04:01. MANY consider the International Culinary Arts Academy Cebu (Icaac), “Salle a Manager” to be Cebu’s finest food center. Thanks to its culinary superstars dean/chef Jeremy and Fatima Young.

These two standouts celebrated “devastating degustation” (as my heavenly foodie says with superlatives). To make the grade for the Icaac final culminating dinner, the graduates of the two-year Culinary Arts Chefs Programme had to come up with a 15-course Trio Menu Concept preparing a single item (in this case, crab, salmon, organic chicken, beef and dessert) in three ingenious and inspired ways.

Crabmeat is fine and delicate as the salade de crabe of mango and imperial Russian caviar (introduced to France following the exile of Russian princes). Crab cakes were piquant, served with... // Sun.Star