Photos: Award-winning food carver Bang-On Roulet

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Hotel Captain Cook chef and competitive food carver Bang-on Roulet practices carving at her home Oct. 2, 2015. She has mastered carving melon, turnip, apple, and taro root among other fruits and vegetables.

International food carving champion Bang-On Roulet lives in Anchorage, where she is preparing for the International Exhibition of Culinary Art in Germany, often called the Culinary Olympics.

It's said to be the largest exhibition of championship cooking in the world. As in the sporting Olympics, contestants will march in by nation, carrying their flags, dressed in formal kitchen uniforms, tall, starched, white toques perched on their heads. Top chefs from scores of nations will compete in categories that range from pastries to hot and cold dishes and -- the category that concerns us here -- food art.

This year will be her second time at the event, but she's already won more than a half-dozen international culinary awards for her work.

While the world may have to wait until next October to see what she can do, Alaskans can get an eyeful right now by checking out the carved pumpkins decorating the lobby of the Hotel Captain Cook, where Roulet works as a banquet chef and garde manger (pantry chef).

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