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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
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