Nerita Bharuth is the recipient of the third annual Woolworths Taste Bursary Award. The talented 22-year-old is currently a junior chef for Fedics at GrandWest Casino in Cape Town. This award recognises and nurtures young talent in the culinary industry.

Bharuth has concurrently won second and first place in the Unilever Ethnic Chef of the Year Awards as well as the 2007 Fedics Junior Chef of the Year Award. She wins a one-year bursary at the Silwood Kitchen Cordon Bleu Cookery School in Rondebosch, Cape Town. The bursary assists in realising the dreams of aspirant chefs who have the talent – but not necessarily the training – to work in a professional kitchen.

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