Abundantly available, versatile, margin rich and loved by people of all ages, potatoes offer caterers a wealth of culinary opportunity.

At the Potato Council we are passionate about potatoes and we know you are too. Our website aims to provide you with a wealth of information that can help you deliver quick, consistent, cost effective and exciting meal solutions whatever the catering occasion.

AYR COLLEGE STUDENT WINS GREAT POTATO CHALLENGE 2009

Ten catering students from across the country battled it out earlier this week in a bid to take home one of the top three prizes in the grand final of the Potato Council’s ‘Great Potato Challenge’ competition 2009.

The dish, ‘Red Rooster and Dunsyre Blue Potato Cake with Truffled Spinach, Petite Ratatouille and Red Rooster Pepper Dressing’, earned its creator Kallaya Smillie the esteemed title of ‘Great Potato Challenge Champion 2009.

Second place position went to Jack Rawlings from Westminster Kingsway College in London, who impressed the judges with his dish ‘Crispy Potato and Purple Sprouting Broccoli Tart with a Potato, Beetroot and Artichoke and Herb Salad.’ And in third place was Robert Gibson of Radbrook College in Shrewsbury with his ‘Smoked Appleby and Potato Souffle and Wild Mushroom Cannelloni with Mushroom Foam’.