Cooking for Special Diets
This class covers various flavor profiles, cooking techniques, ingredients, and equipment used to create dishes for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, allergen-free, and other special diets.
Adv Pastry Doughs, Batters
A study of the history and techniques for the production of tart doughs, choux paste, puff pastry, cookie doughs, creams and curds and their use in finished desserts.
Culinary Fund. II B
Advanced principles of food preparation for fine dining kitchens through a combination of extensive hands-on practice, lecture, and demonstrations. Focus on line-cooking in various stations with preparation of seasonal menus while taking into account sanitation, sustainability, and restaurant cooking techniques.
Culinary Fund. II B
Advanced principles of food preparation for fine dining kitchens through a combination of extensive hands-on practice, lecture, and demonstrations. Focus on line-cooking in various stations with preparation of seasonal menus while taking into account sanitation, sustainability, and restaurant cooking techniques.
Culinary Fund. II A
Advanced principles of food preparation and service. Emphasis is on modern styles of cuisine, as informed by classical French cooking techniques. Students will practice cooking in a bulk production lab environment (Industrial kitchen), producing a variety of foods from around the world, employing all standard cooking techniques, to make entrees, starches, vegetables, and sauces.
Culinary Fund. II A
Advanced principles of food preparation and service. Emphasis is on modern styles of cuisine, as informed by classical French cooking techniques. Students will practice cooking in a bulk production lab environment (Industrial kitchen), producing a variety of foods from around the world, employing all standard cooking techniques, to make entrees, starches, vegetables, and sauces.
Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry
Examination of issues of sustainability in the hospitality industry. By looking through the lenses of environmental, social, and economic sustainability, students will gain an understanding of how business and personal decisions can impact the environment, their communities, and their establishments. Through lectures, readings, discussions, case studies, and their own research, students will learn how to make informed decisions that promote sustainability in their business.
Advanced Baking and Pastry
Development and improvement upon the basic skills and common techniques used in the baking and pastry industry. Topics include meringues, petit fours and miniatures, mousses and creams, frozen desserts, chocolate and confections, fancy and display cakes, yeast-raised products using preferments, baker's math, ingredient functionality, troubleshooting.
Intro to Baking and Pastry
Development of the skills necessary for an entry-level position in the baking and pastry industry. Topics include safety and sanitation, bakeshop terminology, proper use of equipment, weights and measures, ingredients and their functions, baker's math, baking methods and the development of basic baking skills. Students learn through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and extensive hands-on practice.