Capstone Project Progress: Chef Julia Personal Chef Services
I’m getting excited about launching my real culinary business, Chef Julia Personal Chef Services. I have created several menus, recipes, and price lists, have business cards […]
Chef Pro III: Week 7: Advanced Nutrition
I felt pretty comfortable with the subject matter of this class. I am very interested in nutrition and read a lot about it, particularly eating for […]
Chef Pro III: Week 6: Food Trends
Food fads come and go but a trend has the potential to become a long term influence on the market. A few years ago I thought […]
Chef Pro III: Week 5: Timed Cooking
Chef Waier showing us how to clean squid Dread, dread–timed cooking. Have you ever seen the show Chopped? Well this class is similar. Chef Waier gives […]
Chef Pro III: Week 4: Classic Recipes
Chef Waier delivered a fascinating lecture on classic recipes including some history of haute cuisine, epicurian, Escoffier, Nouvelle cuisine, and fusion. We studied this in CP […]
Chef Pro III: Week 3: Organization & Admin
Capstone project information was the focus of this class with no actual cooking, just lecture and discussion. We learned about menu development, food costs and cost […]
Chef Pro III: Week 2: Recipe Development
At the Zest Fest with Lisa Wright I have spent the entire week working on recipe development. I volunteered to participate in the Pace Recipe Contest […]
Chef Pro III: Week 1
This is it–the final semester of culinary school. It’s been one year since I wrote the first blog entry and I will continue posting until graduation. […]
Pastry Pro I: Final Exam
The Pastry Pro I final was on August 19, 2009. I have been putting off entering this post for weeks. I had to leave for a […]
Pastry Pro I: Week 12: Finished Product
My sad looking banana cream pie It’s really Week 13 for the class but 12 for me since I missed a couple classes. Today was a […]