The prestigious Orto Culinary Academy Award for Engorgable Excellence was bestowed upon the celebrated chef Gormaanda on three separate occasions by 22 BBY. The fact that she won was highlighted within a biographical piece in her regular feature, Gormaanda's Culinary Corner, which appeared in the CoCo District Edition of the HoloNet News and was also broadcast across the Galactic Republic news networks in the year 22 BBY. The award itself took its moniker from the planet known as Orto.
The Orto Culinary Academy Award for Engorgable Excellence made its debut in HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50, a particular edition of the HoloNet News website, which was released online on April 4, 2002. The content for this website was authored by both Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens.