Lesia’s Bio 

As an up-and-coming star of the culinary world, Lesia Burlak personifies the Foodies’ concept, and she believes that the ‘foodie’ in everyone can be cultivated.

Lesia has earned the privilege of being captain of Culinary Team Ontario. The team will be traveling to the 2008 World Culinary Olympics in Germany, on a quest of yet another gold medal title.

Lesia is also a Partner and Culinary Director of Liaison College Toronto West where she inspires her students to achieve their own personal goals in the kitchen.

“The one simple rule I follow is to use fresh, local ingredients."

Lesia’s accomplishments:

• Competing as an apprentice against 300 world-renowned chefs, Lesia is the only woman, and the youngest person, ever to win an individual ‘Culinary World Cup’, at Luxembourg in 2002.
  

• Lesia was named one of the ‘Top 30 Canadians Under 30’ by Maclean’s Magazine, 2004.
  
  
• She appeared on TV’s ‘The Next Great Chef’ – the youngest and most precocious judge.
  
  
• As a member of ‘Culinary Team Canada’ she participated in winning sixteen medals, competing in Germany, Chicago, Luxembourg, and Scotland from 2001 through 2005.
  
  
• Lesia was awarded six medals from the Toronto Escoffier Society’s Salon Culinaire as an apprentice.
  
  
• She won five gold medals as a member of ‘Culinary Team Ontario’ competing in Scotland and German.