Culinary challenge

SKANEATELES - As the new general manager of Rosalie's Cucina, Marc Albino still finds time to apply his creativity in the culinary arts.

Today Albino is competing on “CNY's Star Chef Showdown,” an NBC TV program in which teams of three chefs from area restaurants face off to create the best dish. Each team is given a group of ingredients and one hour in which to craft cuisine from it in a kitchen completely new to them. Albino is confident he and his fellow chefs will find a meal to make from their given ingredients, but the prospect of preparing it in a foreign setting is daunting.

“We'll be unfamiliar with what there is to use, and we'll have to find everything in the course of an hour,” he said. “We don't know what to expect.”