Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in China is big business. Reports indicate that EFL is a 10-billion yuan (USD $1.4 billion) business and that the industry made a 700 million yuan (USD $9,800,000) profit in Beijing alone. It is estimated that of the 37 billion yuan derived annually from book sales in China, EFL-related materials constituted no less than 25 percent of the total market (Qiang and Wolff, 2004 (more…)

It used to be that parent’s discouraged their kids from becoming artists. Now, the world of art is broad and can be very lucrative. And if you need another reason to convince your parents you want to go to art school, there are many schools offering scholarships and funding.

Art scholarships run the gamut from drawing to painting to photography to design and even include art of the culinary, musical and literary va (more…)

Culinary arts industry is an excellent choice to start a career for all the people, who breathe, drink, and live food. Majority of aspirants, who decide to become a chef, already have an inclination for it, from a very small age.

An individual can easily become a chef by working as an apprentice in a reputed restaurant or by enrolling to a professional cooking course offered by a culinary arts school.
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I had thoroughly enjoyed my personal Sicilian history lesson provided by Alessandro Adorno, the Founder and Director of the Babilonia Language School. In addition he suggested that I attend one of the cooking classes organized by Babilonia that gives Italian language students an opportunity to create Sicilian delicacies first-hand.

Just a minute and a half from the language school is the home of Aurelio and Angela (more…)

It is stated that change is the only stable thing on this earth. Food preparation techniques have evolved just as the human race has. As each improvement and creation is start by a need, the prerequisite of brand new methods in food making comes out of the necessity for yummier recipes of the people.

What better approach to come up with new-fangled techniques and dishes than to engage kids in cooking. Kids are unguar (more…)