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The Secrets of Minimalist Chefs

It's time to get back to the basics. All a good chef needs is a few basic kitchen tools, talent, and a solid culinary school education.
Is It Wrong to Eat Foie Gras?

Amid concerns over inhumane production, the culinary arts tradition of foie gras is starting to look like a career-ending public relations problem.
Use Your Culinary Career to Connect Kids and Food

Your culinary arts training could help make a difference in kids' lives. Here's how.
The Lemon: International Culinary Workhorse

From the beginning of a meal to the end, chefs love to use lemons. Here's a lesson in the culinary arts of citrus.
How Good Napkin Folding Can Get You a Job

Culinary institutes train hospitality students to attend to every detail of the culinary experience. A well-folded napkin is part of the equation.
Foundations Provide Culinary Career Support

The life of a chef can be a hard one. Who's got your back? Find out where you can turn for support while building your culinary career.
Turn Culinary Training into Food Styling

Why is it that the ads for food often look so much better than the real thing? If you're looking for a creative culinary career, food styling might be for you.
8 Career Options For Your Culinary Arts Degree

Culinary school isn't just about sticking you in a kitchen the rest of your life. Here are some options you might not have considered.
Should You Bake with Artificial Sugar?

Chefs are confronting a tough decision: baking with real sugar tastes good, but are the calories worth it? And how do you cook with artificial sweeteners, anyway?
From Prison to Professional Chef: The Tale of Jeff Henderson

Here's how executive chef Jeff Henderson made it to the pinnacle of the culinary arts profession.
Personal Chefs Bring Haute Cuisine Home

Chefs are hitting the culinary career jackpot by providing nutritious food for seniors and busy families.
Now You're Cookin'! Chef Careers in the Spotlight

Culinary arts are popular in the kitchen and on TV. From Julia Child to Emeril, culinary training has been the first step toward a culinary career.
Museum Chefs and the Art of Dining

When most people think of visiting a museum, images of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other genres of art come to mind.
Drinking Your Dinner

For chefs these days, trying to figure out how to keep up with the beverage trends is a full time job.
Bacon Lovers Unite: The Culinary Art of Picking Favorites

In the art world, painters and poets are encouraged to follow their obsessions in order to find themselves in their work. What happens when you do that in the kitchen? And what happens if what you love is bacon?
Who Needs Doggy Bags? Bring Me a Booster Seat.

From poochie boutiques to canine bakeries, American dogs are no longer second-class citizens. Some chefs are even welcoming dogs into their restaurants.
Is Your Kitchen Ready for Spring?

The best chefs are in tune with the seasons, and know which goodies to put on the menu in springtime.
Just Beet It! How Chefs Work with the Red Roots

These days, chefs are following their instincts, and offering the vibrant, healthy beet in a variety of interesting recipes.
That's the Spirit: Pairing Multi-Course Meals with Single Malts

Spirits specialists have discovered new potential for pairing whiskey with food. Chefs, restaurant managers, and sommeliers can get up to speed on this new trend with whiskey training.
Versatile Vanilla and its Value to Your Culinary Career

Sure, it smells good, but what is vanilla really good for--and how do we get it?
Get the Scoop on Vanilla

Vanilla has a history full of legend and lore, and chefs are finding innovative ways to include this American favorite.
Venison, Bison, and Elk, Oh My! Old-School American Cuisine

Why not spend culinary school learning about some of the burgers from the true American West? From the range to your plate, these flavors will wow any guest.
Cutting-Edge Culinary Techniques: Sous Vide

A culinary arts degree will teach you many new ways to prepare and enjoy food.
Building a Culinary Writing Career

Before you pick up the food writer's pen, plan for success with professional training.
Six Tips for Starting Your Culinary Career

The culinary world is an exciting but tough one. If you're thinking about culinary school, plan ahead and really explore your options.
Adventures of the Tailgating Chef

Who knew that a stadium parking lot could rival a good restaurant? Tailgating cuisine isn't just about hot dogs anymore.
A Menu for Every Diet Fad

As a chef, you'll have a lot of customers who want a whole lot of different things. Menu planning could be your secret to pleasing them all.
Just What Am I Cooking Exactly?

Keeping track of the variations in global cuisine can be tricky. Here's a quick primer.
Cooking Lessons: How to Pick the Right Knife

A knife is a knife is a knife, right? Wrong. Here are a few things to consider when equipping your kitchen.
Grandma's Cooking: Just the Beginning of Chef School

Sure, the recipes might call for 'lard' or a 'handful' of sugar, but those dishes on our grandmother's table are a piece of history.
Be Kind to Your Dinner

Organic, free-range and grass-fed meals are coming to a kitchen near you. Find out what matters when you choose a meat to cook or eat.
Pomegranates: The Cinderellas of the Culinary World

These softball-sized red fruits with the electric crimson seeds have frequently confounded consumers unsure what to do with a pomegranate.
The Secret Lives of School Cafeteria Chefs

Restaurants must produce large amounts of delicious food in a timely manner, with the help of a team of chefs striving to please discriminating diners.
Your Journey toward a Hospitality Management Career

With a hospitality or tourism degree from a culinary institute or university, you can travel straight to the top of this exciting field.
Chefs Encourage the Pomegranate's Quick Rise to Fame

From pomegranate smoothies to pomegranate mojitos, chefs across America are finding new ways to use this exotic fruit in their menus.
Culinary Education Can Save Lives

Going out to eat should be an enjoyable experience--not one that sends you to the hospital.
Culinary Industry Goes Green with Organic Foods

In the United States, the public's desire to eat and live in a healthier way is increasing, as people take particular notice of the origin of the food they purchase and consume.
Fat Chance: NYC Chefs and the Trans Fat Ban

On December 5, 2006, the New York City Health Department voted to ban artificial trans fats from restaurants.
How to Get Repeat Business at a Restaurant

If you're thinking about chef school because you have creative flair in the kitchen, think about all the other ways you can use your skills in a culinary career.
The Industrial Chef: A Stable Culinary Career

If you have a passion for food, but aren't enthusiastic about running a four-star kitchen, consider a more stable culinary career as an industrial chef.
Italian Culinary Traditions: Desserts

Mention Italian food and most people think of pasta or pizza. How often do Italian desserts come to mind? When you study culinary arts, however, you explore all the culinary traditions of a culture's food.
How Can Your Culinary Career Help Others?

Use your culinary career to help the people who need it most.
A Fine Time for a Culinary Career in Wine

With sommelier training from a culinary institute, you can raise your glass to a bright future in wine.
Wine Appreciation: A Feature of Culinary Education

Wine's popularity continues to expand as more people study wine and its role in the culinary world. Wine's place at the table is viewed as a key component of a meal and a complement to the food.
The Chef and The Dietician: The New Dynamic Duo

Culinary schools across the country are finding more people like Laura Pensiero, who use their training as dieticians to start culinary careers.
Why Should You Go to Culinary School?

Attending culinary school will hone more of your talents than measuring and stirring. Read on to find out what qualities the best chefs possess.
The Perks of Being a Personal Chef

Become a personal chef and make great money while making others' lives easier.
Go Ahead and Get Messy: The Culinary Art of Kids in the Kitchen

Whether you're a personal chef, a caterer, or the owner of a restaurant, a cooking class for kids will help you attract a group of consumers-in-training sure to love you for years to come. Did we mention you'll impress their parents, too?
Teflon: Do the Health-Risk Claims Stick?

Teflon has gotten a bad rap in recent years, but with proper chef training, Teflon can be safe. Nevertheless, more and more culinary institutes and career chefs use copper or iron exclusively.
Staying Slim in Chef School

Think you're tempted by food now--what will happen when your culinary career brings you face to face with the world's most exquisite culinary fare? Here are some tactics for avoiding chef school overindulgence.
No Need to Knead in Bread Baking School

In today's bread baking schools, there's no need to get your hands dirty--in fact, there's no need to knead at all. Culinary students are learning that the art of baking bread is patience.
Cranberries: An American Culinary Tradition

The vibrant, red cranberry not only packs a nutritional punch, but is a fall and winter culinary staple.
Cakes: The Art and Science of Baking

Cakes are often the visual centerpieces of weddings, birthdays, and other festive events. The chefs who create these masterpieces have the dual challenge of baking delicious desserts and designing a works of art. Cakes range from the traditional to the outrageous, and chefs need professional culinary training to meet consumer demands.
Saute Pan Elbow? Prevention is the Key to a Long, Comfortable Culinary Career

If you think knives are the only kitchen hazard, think again. It turns out that working as a chef can be a real pain in the neck (or wrist, or back).
Culinary Careers and the Art of Slowing Down

In the typical kitchen, speed is the name of the game. But for chefs that support the Slow Food movement, culinary skill and the art of savoring a meal are top priority.
All About Herbs: What Chefs Learn at Culinary School

With fall and winter approaching, chefs of all types will be heading to the kitchen to prepare those holiday classics. If you could nominate a 'Best Supporting Ingredient' for any holiday spread, herbs would definitely take center stage.
In Search of the Ultimate Menu with a Restaurant Management Degree

Marketing is more important than ever in restaurant management, and 'menu engineers' are at the forefront of the trend. With a culinary degree and dash PR talent, you can launch a career as a restaurant makeover artist.
Culinary Arts and the Organic Wave

Organic cooking has hit the mainstream. If you're interested in launching a career in culinary arts, you might do well to catch the wave.
75 Years of Culinary Joy: Art's in the Eye of the Beholder

In the age of high culinary arts and celebrity chefs, the publication of a fresh 75th anniversary edition of 'The Joy of Cooking' reminds us that you don't need a culinary degree to create a bestselling cookbook.
The Culinary Art of Slicing Fish

Traditional sushi chefs are an elite corps with at least ten years training under their belts. But modern Asian fusion has removed some of the mystique from this ancient culinary art. With basic training, anyone can get started creating sculptures in fish.
Guerilla Cooking: Taking Your Culinary Degree to the Streets

Why go through the five-star apprenticeship if your culinary career dream is to open your own restaurant? Independent vending is gaining credibility, allowing culinary school grads to take their talents to the streets.
Pastry Chefs Face a World Without Shortening

New York City's ban on trans fats signals the end of an era in flaky, delicious, shortening-laden baked goods. With a pastry chef school education, however, you won't even miss this hazardous ingredient.
Who Stole the Foie Gras? A Culinary Arts Nightmare

The fresh porcini mushrooms, truffles, and foie gras beloved by culinary arts types may soon be off the menu, and chef school could plant you square in the middle of this culinary controversy.
A Culinary Career in Food Filmmaking

Your culinary degree could land you a career in a restaurant kitchen--or on the television set. Food TV photographers draw on filmmaking techniques and culinary expertise to cook up virtual meals on screen.
Jill of All Chef Trades? Or Master of One Culinary School?

Most culinary degree seekers just want a job after they complete chef school, but it's the positions they seek early on that determine whether they're viewed as chef specialists or masters of many cuisines.
The (Financially) Independent Culinary Degree Student

Are you an independent culinary arts student? Your answer determines if and how much funding you can get for your culinary arts degree.
Get into a Chef-Entrepreneur Career, Girlfriend

Chef jobs? Sisters are doing it for themselves--under the watchful eye of these savvy chef-entrepreneurs.
Paying Your Culinary Career Dues

Culinary unions promote and protect culinary arts careers. But...to join, or not to join?
Pastry Chefs Explore the Many Shades of Sweet

Pastry chef school affords an excellent opportunity for pastry chefs to get to know sugar. The essence of pastry, sugar's subtle character can take a dessert from sweet to exquisite.
Refreshing Beverages: Chef School Training

Many restaurants introduce creative summer drinks to entice customers. So if you're an aspiring beverage chef or head chef interested in inventing new fruity, sweet, and refreshing recipes, attending chef school can help you understand beverage trends and inventing new flavor combinations.
Culinary Institutes Invite The Public In

Culinary institutes are not just for students pursuing culinary careers. Sometimes these culinary arts centers open their doors to the general public, providing average Janes and Joes with an opportunity to learn a new craft, and 'real' culinary students with the chance to try on their teaching caps.
From Nuts to Donuts for Indiana Baking School

If a new Indiana proposal goes through, one of the country's newest baking schools will be razed on the grounds of a former state hospital, once home to those suffering from mental illness. The plan is demonstrative of piqued public interest in baking as a career choice.
China's Catering Program Grow: Chinese Food To Go in Beijing?

Take out Chinese food has always been one of the favorites when a family didn't feel like cooking. Now China's catering industry is growing at an amazing rate. Would you like a catering job offshore?
Will Your Culinary Career Help You Become the First Chef in Space?

The newest Star Wars movies are filled with death-defying light saber fights and star fighters moving at intergalactic speeds. You don't see a lot of is eating. What will a culinary arts career be like in if and when we mere humans mastr space travel? Will the culinary schools of the future include space cooking as a regular subject?
Chefs Resurrect Ye Olde Culinary Arts

From 'swan gizzard sauce' to 'Texas Rattlesnake Chili,' more and more chefs are establishing careers as culinary historians, recreating historic dishes from ancient recipes. But do these age-old delicacies actually taste good?
A Culinary Map of South Africa

Chef Eduan Naude built his culinary career on specialties like worm, antelope, and crocodile. His sometimes shocking, always authentic menu pays tribute to the culinary arts of South Africa's diverse ethnic groups.
Pastry and Politics: Hail to the Chef

Former Arizona governor Fife Symington couldn't stand the political heat, so he got into the kitchen - and has a pastry chef career to show for his midlife job transition.
The Gourmet Chef de School Cafeteria

The American school cafeteria. Perhaps not the epicenter of gourmet cuisine, but if chefs like Alice Waters and Ann Cooper have their way, your local elementary school could soon be serving five-star lunches.
Don't Have Time for Culinary School? Got 5 Days?

Grab your culinary fatigues--your jacket, pants, neckerchief, and paper chef's hat--and enlist in a week of basic cooking training.
Variety, the Spice of Chef School Training

Chefs are more in-demand that ever, and over the last decade chef schools have provided ever-more options for culinary study--from chef schools to universities willing to offer chef training.
Just Business: Tips for Starting a Catering Career

Want a culinary career as a professional caterer? The right training is essential for a successful start.
Turn Your Chocolate Addiction into a Culinary Career

If you're a chocoholic, why not get paid for indulging your deepest desires? With a culinary degree, aspiring chocolate tasters can turn their passion into a career selecting, buying, and marketing chocolate.
Instant Culinary School

You don't have to sign two years of your life away to get culinary training. Try a quickie course, whether for a weekend, an evening, or just an hour or two.
Culinary Institutes Promote Great Salad Ideas for Chefs

To all aspiring chefs: Pay attention in garde manger classes. Knowing delicious and inovative of salad combinations can increase your appeal to health-conscious and food-savvy customers.
Twenty-First Century Chef Training

The twenty-first century chef's career is as dependent on the computer as the knife. Learn how computing skills make life in the kitchen much, much easier.
Culinary Education: Do You Need a Traditional College Degree?

While much has been written about the culinary arts as a second career choice, less has been said about today's other trend in culinary education: fast track teenage chefs-to-be.
Nutrition: A Culinary Arts Education

Want to stay on top of culinary trends? Make sure you take time during your culinary arts education to study nutrition. Offering healthier foods to your consumers may have more of an effect on their lives than you realize.
The Rise (and Fall?) of Genetically-Engineered Bread

Genetic engineers have manufactured a bionic wheat resistant to overmixing. It's great news for mass producers, but even better for the artisan bakers and bread baking schools who stand to encounter a growing demand for unprocessed food.
Turn Your Love of Wine into a Hospitality Management Career

Once you've turned your passion for flinty whites and jammy reds into a wine and hospitality career, you'll want to make your personally lifestyle match your management position.
How to Cook the Perfect Chicken, and Other Chef School Topics

Need some tips on cooking difficult foods? Getting your chef education through a culinary school can help you with some of the finer points of cooking, saving you mistakes that may come later.
Culinary Institutes Graduates Are In Demand For Chef Jobs

Graduates from culinary institutes are facing expanding career opportunities as the number of chef jobs increase. A culinary degree has become the key to a good future.
Culinary Colleges Provide Creative Chef Training for a Raw Foods Career

Looking for a really creative way to make a living as a chef? Consider Roxanne Klein, head chef of Roxanne's, who has used her chef school training to start a non-cooking culinary career.
How to Become a Chef through Hands-On Training

Chef schools can teach a student how to become a chef, it's true. But nobody says you have to go that route in order to have a chef's career--especially when online chef training gives you so many alternatives.
Think Outside the Restaurant Box for Culinary Arts Careers

If you're investing in a culinary arts degree, be sure to cast a wide career net that includes onsite foodservice.
Unusual Ingredients in Pastry Chef's Culinary Arts Career

Think a pastry chef career calls to mind creativity? It should. Applying your knowledge of food science, your creativity, and a little experimentation, you can find unusual ingredients to use in your pastries.
Tapas for the Chef School Student

Tapas are gaining popularity in the United States not only as the perfect accompaniment to an evening drink, but also as a series of snacks comprising a meal. Learn how these Spanish treats can be a part of chef school training for a culinary arts degree.
Unexpected Classes for Culinary Arts Students

Want to own your own restaurant? Culinary schools can enable you to do more than just cook for it.
Now with MSG! Gourmet Chefs Revive the Unpopular Additive

Perhaps it's an Alice Waters backlash: some gourmet chefs are adding chemical flavor enhancers such as MSG to menus hitherto dominated by fresh, simple ingredients.
Garde Manger Chef Jobs: Your Foot in the Kitchen Door

As any reality cooking show tells us, the heat is on the hot line. Meanwhile, those whose chef careers place them on the cold line--the garde mangers--keep cool though the do a half dozen jobs.
Research Chefs Get it Right (Eventually)

If the mad dash from kitchen to dinner table isn't your culinary style, consider a career as a research chef. With the chance to fine tune a single recipe to your heart's content, your creations will reach a new degree of culinary perfection.
Yuba: A Tofu Twist for the Culinary Career

A culinary education for a chef career will teach you about more than just how to use cookware and ingredients according to traditional culinary schools of thought. Learning how to make a variety of foods is essential, and sometimes that means discovering a new twist on an old ingredient.
Where Meat Comes From, and Other Culinary School Topics

Want to ensure that the food you serve throughout your culinary career contains only the freshest and finest ingredients? Take some chef school classes to learn the basics of the raw ingredients that become your culinary works of art.
The Culinary Dream of the Perfect Range

When chefs dream, their culinary fantasies are filled with images of the ideal range--the one they hope one day to afford.
California Wines and Culinary Careers: A Perfect Pairing

Award-winning California wines have done more than upset French vintners; they've also ushered in a new era of haute cuisine, where bold wines are as crucial to the meal as crisp, local flavors.
Travel: Your Chef School After Chef School

One test of the true culinary arts career temperament is the urge to study long after chef school ends. Fortunately, travel is the greatest chef school of all.
Jamie Oliver Brings the Culinary Arts to British Schools

Who doesn't have bad memories of school food. (Is canned corn really improved by the addition of pimentos?) Fortunately, Naked Chef Jamie Oliver boldly attempts to put the culinary arts on the menu of British schools.
Jerky as Culinary Art

Downscale chic has made it onto the three-star menu. It's just a matter of time before jerky gains recognition as a culinary art in its own right. Culinary schools, get your smokers ready for the new 'craft' jerky.
Good Business Science: The Art of a Hospitality Career

How do you balance the creativity, design, and hospitality aspects of the restaurant without going overboard on budget, or making customers wait an hour before ever seeing their food? Culinary colleges offer hospitality training courses for those who want a career in restaurant management.
From Sublime to Ridiculous: The Pastry Chef as Mad Scientist

The New Gastronomy's pastry chefs roll dough with the rest of them--except they add everything from chlorophyll to calcium chloride to the recipe. For some truly crazy desserts, check out this new culinary art.
Japanese Knives Give the Culinary Competition an Education

Culinary artists from East to West are turning Japanese to get an education in cutlery--and finding that light, flexible blades make slicing and dicing a breeze.
Culinary Career Boot Camp for Amateur Chefs

Heading to chef school? Heat, Bill Buford's new memoir of life as a line cook, will give you something to chew on. Before you taste success, prepare to tough it out in amateur-chef boot camp.
Waiter, There's Seaweed in My Eclair: Asian Fusion and French Pastry School

Asian fusion has made its way onto the dessert menu. Learn how Japanese pâtissiers are taking advantage of their French pastry school education to create strange and strikingly delicious sweets.
Chef School Training in Restaurant Menu Development

Want the skills to own your own restaurant? If so, make sure your culinary degree program includes some restaurant business training classes, such as menu development. Knowing what should be on the menu can be the difference between a good restaurant and a 5-star restaurant.
Is Your Food Ready for its Close-up? The Art of Food Photography

It looks too good to eat! If you're a food stylist, it probably is. Food stylists hold the same culinary arts degree as master chefs, but their concoctions are as toxic as they are photogenic.
Culinary Tips for the Pastry Chef School Student

Want a career in pastries? The education you'll receive at a culinary school can help save you mistakes and increase your successes.
Get Paid to Become a Chef

Changes in the federal rules for funding make it easier for you to get a chef school degree, both online and off. States and chefs groups help out, too.
Pastry Chefs Savor the Sweet Sorbets of Summer

If you're experiencing your annual love affair with summer fruits, consider showcasing them in a refreshing sorbet. Sorbet is a year-round staple of the pastry chef's menu, a refreshing palate-cleanser to close any meal.
The Culinary Arts of Food Science

The title culinary arts suggests that chefs can build entire careers merely off of intuition, good luck, and natural talent. But while these are essential ingredients to a successful culinary career, attending a chef school and learning a bit of food science can enhance a chef's artistic abilities.
Four Considerations When Starting a Restaurant

Whether you're looking at cooking schools as your primary training source for your restaurant career or not, learning the less-obvious aspects of restaurant management--such as these five tips--can go a long way toward a successful culinary arts career.
Cooking Rule #1: Food Safety First in Culinary Schools

"America is under a culinary Code Orange alert," writes journalist James E. McWilliams. Fortunately, food safety classes at cooking schools teach chefs how to respond.
Finding the Hospitality and Culinary Arts School that Fits

Not everyone is geared for the "downstairs" heat of the kitchen. Maybe you'd rather be "upstairs" making sure diners are having a great time.
Getting an Education as a Personal Chef

Want to be a chef, but you're not sure you'll like the fast-paced world of restaurant kitchens? If you'd like to provide personalized your service for your customers, consider a career as a personal chef.
Culinary Degree or Apprenticeship? Why You Need Both

As a culinary career starter, an apprenticeship is hard to beat. Here's what you'll need to do to get one.
Be the Boss with a Restaurant Management Degree

Culinary colleges have courses that cover every aspect of a culinary career. You may want to become a chef, or your ambition may be to earn a restaurant management degree and run the whole show.
Food Trends Help Chefs Find a Culinary Arts Degree Path

So you want to be a chef? Knowing top food trends could help you focus your studies and lead to a more lucrative culinary arts career.
A Beginning Chef's Guide to Ethiopian Cuisine

While Ethiopian food may sound strange, exotic, or even distasteful to some, the public's growing interest in other cultures and ethnic cuisine means that chefs who get school training in these types of cuisine could find themselves working in very specialized markets.
Sweet Culinary Careers

If anti-sugar news has you doubting the wisdom of a pastry chef career, you should be cheered by the recent successes of dessert-oriented restaurants, large and small.
Culinary Arts Classes on Land and Sea

If you're a culinary arts aficionado, then summer offers you the chance to merge two terrific activities: vacationing and cooking.
Take Pleasure in a Chef Career

A culinary degree can put you on the road to a very enjoyable chef career, where you'll be at the top of the culinary arts pyramid.
A Chef's Training in Oregano

What's one herb that every kitchen should have? Oregano. It's an essential part of many Italian, Greek, and Mexican recipes, and experts are beginning to note its health benefits, as well.
Bachelor's in Culinary Arts: An Education Parents Can Be Proud Of

Many people are taking their culinary careers very seriously. Instead of just going to ordinary cooking schools, they go to culinary colleges and pursue bachelor degrees in culinary arts.
A Baking Career on the High Seas

Imagine a luxury hotel that has no fixed address. That is the description of a cruise ship, and it could be the floating home of your baking career.
The Culinary Arts as Sport

The culinary arts have become much more than just good cooking. Now they are also good television. How long before competition technique becomes a course in most culinary colleges?
Contract Catering Jobs Build Chefs' Skills

Graduates of culinary institutes have a whole world of culinary career paths to choose from. You probably won't start out as the top chef in a fancy restaurant when you graduate, but there are many other ways of honing and showing your skills.
How Chefs Can Help Customers Avoid Migraines

Cooking schools can give you the chef training and education you need to help your customers avoid foods that may be harmful to them.
Private Chef Jobs in Hollywood and Beyond

Your culinary degree can launch a career that goes way beyond the kitchen of a top restaurant. There are thousands of chef school graduates who never see the inside of a public kitchen--they take private chef jobs for the rich and famous.
4 Signs You're Ready for a Culinary Arts Career

The right culinary schooling and these four traits can help you succeed in a culinary arts career.
Culinary Arts & Craft: A Pastry Chef Career

One of the stars of a fancy kitchen is the pastry chef. It's not the easiest career in the culinary arts, but going to pastry chef school will put you into very special category as a chef.
A Restaurant Management Career: The Top of the Culinary Arts

If you're aiming for a life in the culinary arts, you might as well aim for the top. Most of the top culinary colleges can prepare you for a restaurant management career. It's a career at the very top of the restaurant food chain.
The Chef: Top of the Culinary Arts Ladder

There are many different levels in the culinary arts. Not everyone in a culinary career is a chef. In better establishments, a chef's job description is very specific, and people are careful not to misuse the title.
Food Safety: One Part of Culinary Education

A culinary education isn't just about cooking. Your culinary school will also teach you how to make sure the food you serve is safe. Find out about a few simple rules that even a home cook can learn to keep food safe.
Lights, Cameras, Culinary Degrees!

Want to parlay your culinary degree into an entertainment career? You have options for marrying food with fun to make your fortune.
Your Hospitality Job Description: Caring for Strangers

Once again, food establishments have become homes away from home for a world of travelers in constant motion. As a result, hospitality careers take on a whole new meaning and importance in our culture.
A Culinary Career is All about Sharing

Chefs used to be full of secrets. They guarded their recipes jealously and refused to allow anyone into their kitchens. But today's world of TV celebrity chefs has made sharing part of the game. They are proud of their culinary training and they want to let others enjoy it, too.
Television Chef Jobs Are on the Rise

If you add some acting classes to your chef's education, you might land one of the growing number of chef jobs on television. And you'll probably make two or three times the average salary for a regular chef.
A Chef School Training in Lemons

Want to refresh your cooking or baking? Take some chef school or baking classes to learn how to add lemon and other flavors to your culinary arts creations.
Culinary Arts: It's All in the Implements

If you've ever spent an hour in the cooking store mesmerized by a wall covered with cooking gadgets, this culinary arts advice is for you.
A Culinary Career: Beyond the Backyard Barbeque

Get culinary tips to ensure that your Memorial Day barbeque produces mouthwatering results.
Put Your Restaurant Training Into Your Own Place

For some people, the final goal of a restaurant career is opening their own eateries. Find out what it takes to open your own restaurant.
A Culinary Arts Education in Cooking with Wine

If you're interested in getting a culinary arts education, you'll likely learn a bit about wine. Cooking schools can teach you not only what wine to pair with food, but also how to use wine in your cooking.
Make Chicken Soup the Cornerstone of Your Culinary Arts

When you learned to make chicken soup in chef school, did you know that you learned the fine art of culinary healing as well?
Beyond The Kitchen: A Career Path To The Top

Not all chefs stay in the kitchen. Many take their culinary careers a step higher. They go to restaurant management school and learn to run an entire enterprise.
The French Paradox and a Culinary Education in Nutrition

A nutrition class at one of many culinary schools or institutes could be a source of fascinating information, including insights into the so-called "French Paradox."
Do You Have the Personality for a Hospitality Career?

Culinary institutes can teach you everything about the culinary arts, but a hospitality career requires more than knowledge. You have to be ready to give the best you have to offer-and give it to complete strangers.
A Culinary Degree Can Be a Ticket To Travel

You can never imagine where your culinary degree might lead you. For some people, chef school is the ticket to a world of adventure. For one chef school graduate, it led to a fine catering job in the U.K.
Culinary Arts Schools Thrive in Good Times--and in Bad Times

The restaurant industry is growing in spite of downturns in the economy. That means there are more culinary arts jobs to be found, and more young people are turning towards culinary careers.
Another Side of a Restaurant Manager's Job

Restaurant patrons have different tastes, different demands, and even different abilities. Part of a restaurant management career involves learning to welcome the disabled.
Top 5 Signs a Culinary Arts Career is Right for You

Find out which traits are signs you might be ready for a culinary career.
Pastry and Pleasure

Budding pastry chefs and would-be bakers take note! A writer boldly claims that pleasure in eating is good for us.
Easy-to-Make Pastry Can Add Class to Your Meals

Sometimes the simplest touches can add elegance to a meal. You don't have to go to pastry chef school to learn this simple form of puff pastry. But if you pursue a pastry chef career, you'll make variations on this recipe hundreds of times.
Your Culinary Career on Wheels

Want some street cred for your culinary school degree? How about starting a coffee or catering cart and being your own boss?
Add Some Spice to Your Career: Use Chilies in Your Culinary Arts Education

Chilies are among the most popular ingredients in international cuisine. From Mexican enchiladas to Indian vindaloo, there are many ways that chilies can be used, and your culinary education can show you just how many choices there are.
White House Chef: One of the Best Private Chef Jobs in the Country

If you are a politically-minded person, you might dream of becoming president. If your dream is a career as a chef, you might dream of becoming the president's chef. Cristeta Comerford realized that dream when she accepted the most sought after private chef job, head cook at the White House.
Do Your Knives Say You're a Top Chef?

Dull knives aren't just an embarrassment to the chef school graduate; a young chef with a dull knife can actually get fired.
The President's Pastry Chef Makes a Change

Pastry chefs can make their own career choices. Once you have that culinary degree from pastry chef school, you can steer your own ship. At least that seems to be the lesson to be gained from Thaddeus R. DuBois' recent announcement.
His Unusual Ailment Led Him to a Culinary Career

Learn about a baker in California began a profitable profession in the culinary arts because ordinary cookies made him ill. He invented his own recipes and took his skills from baking class all the way to the bank.
Sweet Deals for Chef-Entrepreneurs

These inventive chefs would rather risk their culinary careers on their great ideas than go for the sure-fire paycheck.
Online Culinary Career Support: It's As Close As Your Computer

There's a virtual culinary community at your fingertips, willing to share information with you about getting a culinary degree and having a cooking career.
The New Wine Pros

Women and minorities, please apply if you see wine service in a culinary job description. Today, matter who you are or what your background, you can have a career as a sommelier.
Personal Cheffing: A Culinary Career for the Chef Entrepreneur

Here's how you can create a profitable, satisfying, independent culinary career by offering families a home-cooked alternative to mass-market takeout.
The Culinary Art of Chocolate

If you love chocolate, consider completing programs at culinary arts or baking schools, so you can learn to make your own delicious chocolate treats.
A Baking Career Really Takes the Cake

A beautiful cake is the centerpiece of so many of our celebrations. The moment of joy as a bride and groom cut a wedding cake can make all the hard work of baking school worthwhile.
Nothing Fishy Here: How a Culinary Arts Degree Can Help Start Your Restaurant Career

With fish becoming increasingly popular as a food, there's no better time to get culinary arts training and learn all the best ways to prepare it.
Vegetarian Catering: Finding Your Culinary Career Niche

Vegetarian cuisine expresses your culinary artistry in catering to the needs of diners who want healthy fare, for both everyday meals and special occasions.
Culinary Schools: Starting Your Restaurant Management Career

With Americans eating at restaurants more and more, eating out is big business. If you're interested in a restaurant management career, consider getting a restaurant management degree from one of the many great culinary schools.
Ana Sortun, Role Model for a Chef Career

If you're a chef in training, be inspired by the award-winning culinary talent of Boston-area chef Ana Sortun.
Flat Urban Chef Oasis

While a flat urban oasis may be a Des Moines neighborhood with a Barnes and Noble and a Starbucks, the flat urban oasis referenced here is Urban Flats, a Florida restaurant and a great place to be a chef.
Gumba Gringo Chefs

Ciao, ya'all can be nothing other than a salutation from an Italian Texan. Well, it can also be the name of a cookbook. Both cases originate from two Gumba Gringos--Damien Mandola and JohnnyCarrabba two dudes who've made careers as chefs, broadcasters, and authors.
Should I Go To a Pastry Chef School?

Baking training can cover a very wide range of kitchen skills. Almost all culinary institutes teach basic baking of breads and cakes. If you want to become a fancy pastry chef, you'll probably have to attend a special school.
Need Culinary Education Money? Why Not Win It?

Cousin to the county fair pie baking contests of old, the cook-off lets you show off your culinary artistry and win money, too.
The Best Start For Your Culinary Career

A culinary career is an adventure. Like most adventures, your culinary career will be most rewarding if you prepare well. The best preparation starts with the best culinary schools.
Baking and Pastry School: Starting Your Career in Weddings

For those with talent and dedication, wedding cake baking could be the first step toward a sweetly successful career.
An Education in Sauces: Start Your Culinary Career with an Arts Degree

Sauces have been essential to cooking for hundreds of years. A culinary education can teach you how to use them to create delicious meals.
Baking Bread By Hand is High Class

More and more of our food is machine made and prepackaged, but baking training will never go out of style. People will always appreciate hand made bread, and your baking career will flourish.
Your Bread and Butter: What Baking Schools Can Do for You

Love bread? Get started in a great bread baking career by taking classes at a culinary school.
Disaster: It's All in the Hospitality Industry Job Description

Katrina left destruction in its path, but adversity is just another part of a career in hospitality. Hospitality jobs are coming back--even in flood-ravaged New Orleans.
Catering School Produces Good Cooks

Several top chefs have described how a job in catering started their culinary careers. Catering schools teach more than how to make an open faced sandwich. You can learn enough to move from catering to a serious cooking career.
A Strange Place for a Culinary Arts Program

Military meals have a universally bad reputation. That's why it is so amazing to find people putting their culinary educations to work in an Army mess tent. These prize winning chefs are pursuing culinary arts careers while in uniform.
A Career as a Chef is a Creative Career

If you are a creative person who enjoys food and wine, you should consider a career as a chef. A chef's career is a real adventure. The chef's training process is not easy, but it is an exciting part of the journey.
Good Hospitality Training Can Make the Food Taste Better

Hospitality jobs are important to a restaurant's success. Employees with hospitality training are sometimes more important than the fine chefs in the kitchen.
Greek Pastry Chef Makes the Biggest Baklava of His Career

A Greek pastry chef has given himself a huge job. He's trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by baking the world's largest baklava. It's not the kind of task they teach in pastry schools.
Amateurs Can Help Your Baking Education

Amateur cooks who enter local baking contests are experts in their own right. They spend their time learning tricks and techniques you may not learn in baking school.
Baking Training Comes In Handy For The Holidays

Of course a baking career is a year 'round vocation, but there are so many more baking jobs to be done around the holidays. It's a time when your baking training will make you very very popular.
Can Fast Food Restaurant Jobs Lead to a Restaurant Management Career?

Fast-food restaurant jobs don't have to be the dead-end situations people claim they are. They can be starting points that lead to other restaurant jobs, and even to a restaurant management career.
Will the Top Culinary Schools Compete in the Salad Bowl?

How much of your culinary career will be spent competing with other chefs? Very few culinary arts schools have football teams, but today's culinary education should include a course on how to compete in the kitchen.
Catering Careers On the Upswing After 9/11 Setbacks

Catering careers were unstable as the industry suffered many setbacks in the past few years. Now jobs in catering are on the upswing again, and more students are seeking catering training.
It Takes Brains to Earn a Culinary Arts Degree

Culinary art schools are exciting places of learning. A good culinary arts program includes a bit of history, some geography, and lots of cooking.
Plating Is the Pastry Chef's Toughest Job

Restaurant owners want to serve desserts made by pastry chefs with the best possible training. The pastry chef's job is to create items that will bring customers back again and again.
Sydney Rises to the Forefront in Culinary Arts

Culinary arts students should look to Sydney, Australia’s cuisine trends for ideas and inspiration.
What Effect will Katrina Have on Cajun and Creole Cuisine?

What will come of chef jobs in the Big Easy? Will Creole and Cajun restaurants return to New Orleans or spread throughout the U.S?
Do You Have the Right Ingredients for a Career as a Chef?

Today's chef might supervise a staff of other chefs at larger institutions, prepare food in their own restaurant, or showcase their culinary talents on a TV cooking show. What kind of chef career would you want training for?
Financing Your Culinary Education

You've been accepted to the culinary school of your dreams. Great! Now, how are you going to pay for your culinary education?
Apicius: Think Tuscany, Think Italy, Think Great Cooking School

Apicius, the Culinary Institute of Florence, is a culinary school with a mission: to teach international students the importance of true Italian cuisine.
Is a Restaurant Career Worth Considering?

If you are thinking of a restaurant career, don't let your view get too narrow. Think of the doors of your restaurant school as the front gate of a dream. Once you enter, the sky is the limit. Remember, a restaurant career can be many things.
Catering Training Comes In Handy After Hurricane

Restaurants are closed or destroyed, but displaced people, rescue workers, and volunteers have to eat. Hundreds of catering jobs are part of the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. People with catering training are the unsung heroes.
Culinary Art Careers Require Creative People

There's a reason that the preparation of fine cuisine is taught at a culinary arts school. There is a lot of art in a culinary art career. The most successful graduates of culinary arts schools are the people who are the most creative and artistic in their approach to the work.
Watching Customers' Diets is Not a Restaurant Manager's Job

Is it a restaurant manager's job to make sure customers don't get fat from eating at his or her establishment? Not according to a recent law passed by Congress. Your restaurant training teaches you to provide good food. According to the new law, it's the customer's job to eat wisely.
Wine Experts Needed for Restaurant and Hospitality Jobs

As the economy improves and people begin to travel again, the number of hospitality jobs grows. If you love food, wine, and good living and you enjoy helping people have a good time, a hospitality career is for you.
Invention is Part of a Chef's Job Description

Your chef education will teach you all the fundamentals of cooking and how to follow recipes. When you start your chef career you'll need to invent the recipes that other people follow.
From My Kitchen: Singing For the Customer's Supper as Part of Restaurant

Food songs may not be on the menu at restaurant school, but you can't get through your restaurant career without hearing at least a few.
Chocolate Uses You Won't Learn in Baking School

One of the ingredients you'll become familiar with in your baking classes is chocolate. Here are a few uses of the delicious stuff that you probably won't learn at your baking and pastry school.
Is There Art in a Culinary Art Career?

The institutions that used to be called cooking schools now go by the descriptive title: culinary arts schools. Does the change have to do with marketing and promotion, or is there are real reason for the emphasis on art?
A Chef's Career Starts At Home

Becoming a chef is a long, and often difficult process. Chef's training can be very demanding, but a chef career is very rewarding.
The Party is the Food

The bride may be beautiful or the bar mitzvah boy brilliant, but what the guests will remember years later is the catering. Your food and service can make a good party great.
Culinary Careers Part II: Chef Jobs

Due in part to television programs, food channels, and America's obsession with dieting, chefs are more important and more famous than ever. Culinary Careers Part II will take a look at various chef jobs and what kind of chef training is required.
What's the Average Salary for Different Chef Jobs?

As a qualified chef a wide range of jobs are open to you; the average salary for a chef varies according to the job description.
Celebrity Weddings-From Catering First Class, to "Oops I Did It Again"

Everyone knows perfect food is the key to a perfect wedding. What are some of the famous celebrities eating on this special occasion?
European Cooking School Vacations...What a Trip!

Want a taste of culinary school this summer? A culinary vacation could be the first step toward your career in food.
Signature Desserts

Do you have a couple of special desserts up your sleeve to end the meal with a bang? It's part of every good chef's education!
Catering School Tips

When guests offer to help, do you accept? Equally important, do you know ahead of time what you'll ask them to do?
Wine Experts Needed for Restaurant and Hospitality Jobs

As the economy improves and people begin to travel again, the number of hospitality jobs grows. If you love food, wine, and good living and you enjoy helping people have a good time, a hospitality career is for you.
Thoughts About a Hospitality Career

There are lots of ways you can participate in the exciting life of a restaurant or hotel without becoming a chef. Have you thought about a hospitality industry job?
Culinary Careers Part I: Restaurant Management Jobs

The restaurant manager is usually the first to arrive in the morning and the last to leave at night. What does it take to enter this demanding career?
Salsa with Everything

Tired of salsa and chips? Today's chef class will help you serving fresh salsa in ways you probably didn't expect.
The Return of Fine Cuisine

The lost art of fine cuisine is being rediscovered by average Americans everywhere. Classes at your local culinary arts school can make the difference in your ability to keep your New Year's resolution to eat better this year.
Better Pastry Next Time

Less than perfect results with your pastry? Pastry chef school teaches you to try, try again.
Culinary Education can Teach you to Forget the Fries!

There are lots of ways to prepare potatoes, other than mashed or fried. What other tricks do the culinary art schools have up their sleeves?
Running a Fabulous Restaurant: More than Just a Job

What is it that makes the difference between a good restaurant and a great one? It is the passion the restaurant management and employees have for the job.
Bread Spreads Worthy of Restaurants

What's the first thing you eat at a restaurant? Bread! A good restaurant school teaches bread-baking and serving.
Food Preparation Tips

Everyone who has worked in a kitchen knows that there's more to cooking than just cooking! Our home restaurant training has to include other tricks of food preparation - and even clean-up.
Go for the Pastry

Some home cooks balk when it comes to pastry, thinking it's just too hard. Not at all! Here are some ideas to make you love your home pastry chef job.
Pasta Perfection - Hospitality Training for Guest Entertaining

Nothing says "welcome" like a home-made dish of tender, mouth-watering pasta. If hospitality is entertaining with warmth and generosity, then visiting an Italian kitchen is a hospitality course in itself!
Entertaining At Your Best

Entertaining is not just about cooking. It's also about planning, serving, and making sure you guests have a great time. So today we'll switch gears and give you some advice from our home catering school.
French Pastry School - Your Gateway to a World of Pastry Jobs

The art of French pastry making is famous around the world for its tradition of using fine ingredients and sophisticated techniques. By studying at a culinary school that specializes in this area you can learn the secrets and skills of the master "patissier" and qualify for a variety of pastry jobs after graduation.
A Successful Culinary Career Starts With a Successful Culinary Education

There was a time when one could learn to be a professional cook by stirring the soup for an established chef. The world was a simpler place in those days. Today, a culinary arts degree is a more direct path to the best culinary jobs.
Changing Careers: Transform your Culinary Passion into a Culinary Career.

Many people discover their love for the culinary arts after they have established careers in other fields. How can you know if a culinary career change is right for you?
Of Course, If I'd Known You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked a Cakef

One of the most enjoyable parts of baking school is your cake baking class. You probably never imagined how many different kinds of cakes there are.
Earn a Hospitality Degree to Ensure Success in Your Hospitality Career

Make sure that your hospitality career is a success by earning a hospitality management degree.
Recipe #002 February 2005: Beef Stroganoff

For 500 years the term ‘cordon bleu’ has been associated with outstanding cuisine and excellent culinary techniques.
Roland Mesnier: 25 Years as America's Pastry Chef

Roland Mesnier recently stepped down from his post as Executive Pastry Chef at the White House. His career as the pastry chef in the White House has spanned 25 years and five presidents.
Work on a Cruise Ship: For a Chef It Can Be a Dream Job

If you have finished your chef training and are looking for a challenging and exciting career that will take you round the world, why not look for a cruise ship chef job?
The Magic Ingredients to Being like a Career Chef

Have your guests wondering what you did to make your dishes different from everyone else's version - even better than most career chefs' dishes.
Being a Chef is a Creative Career

Being a chef is hard work, but it is an exciting and rewarding career. The chef's work is in a creative class with that of painters and sculptors, but people get to eat the art.

What Can Baking and Pastry School Do for You?

If you are interested in a baking career, find out how attending baking and pastry school can prepare you for success in this field.
A Catering Career Profile: Caterer of the Year

Jack Milan did not become Catering Magazine's Caterer of the Year 2004 by accident. His catering career began after he had already a successful corporate consultant and then started his own very successful restaurant.
New Salad Ideas You Won't Learn in Chef Class

Your personal home chef training has to include new and different recipes - like the following welcome additions to your salad repertoire. Your friends will be impressed that your salad didn't require a full chef education.
A Catering Career Can Be an Adventure

If you'd like new challenges and different menus almost every day, a catering career may be for you. There are plenty of catering jobs waiting for chefs with catering training.
Now's The Time For A Culinary Education

One is not born into the culinary arts. In fact, it takes a strong program to make a strong chef. Most of the chefs I have known come from culinary arts schools.
Which Culinary Degree? Which Culinary Arts School?

Follow this advice to choose the right culinary degree and culinary arts school for your future career.
Jazz Up the Rice - Then Your Life - With a Culinary Degree

Add pizzazz to your cooking with tips from your weekly culinary class. This week, learn how to put the spice in your rice, and your life, with a culinary program degree.
Forget the Tapestry - Try the Art of Pastry!

One of the finest specialties in all of cooking is the pastry chef's job - in my humble opinion. There is a reason these very special cooks earn that attractive pastry chef salary.
From My Kitchen - Your Guide to Baking and Pastry School

One of the first things to think about - and you don’t need a baking class to tell you this - is that not every baking and pastry school is the same. The traditions vary from country to country and even from region to region, and the baking training varies as well.


Better Baking: Quick Decorating for Cakes and Pies

Today we're going to peek into baking and pastry school. This practical baking class will have you decorating beautiful pies and cakes in no time, and can help you prepare for a baking school education.


Does Culinary School Sound Tempting?

Do you love to cook? Do you consider yourself an artist in the kitchen? Take this simple quiz to find out if culinary school should be the next step for you.
The Magic of Baking

In a baking course, you will learn those elusive secrets. You had better take an apron, because soon flour, yeast, baking powder, sugar, baking soda, salt and more will be flying about you in a dusty cloud as you stir up the concoction that just may lead you to the perfect loaf.
Your Guide to Baking and Pastry School

One of the first things to think about - and you don't need a baking class to tell you this - is that not every baking and pastry school is the same. The traditions vary from country to country and even from region to region, and the baking training varies as well.
From Asparagus to Omelets - Practical Time and Money-saving Techniques for the Kitchen

Don't you love to cook with someone who has all sorts of tricks and time-savers? It's almost like being in a culinary class. Here are some tips I've picked up over the years, to make your cooking a little easier, quicker-and more fun!
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