How Culinary Herbs Gives Your Cooking A Fresh Taste
Sunday January 10th 2010, 1:01 am
Filed under: culinary herbs

A great way to have a continuous supply of herbs for cooking is by growing culinary herbs in your own garden. There are many great herbs have been used for thousands of years to add flavor to a variety of dishes. Herbs can have a tang to them, or they can be spicy or even salty, or they can be simply delicious. For any recipe out there, there is the perfect herb.

Parsley is an herb best applied to a fish dinner but this popular herb (more…)



Let Culinary Herbs Spice Up Your Life
Sunday January 10th 2010, 1:00 am
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Discerning cooks from around the world appreciate culinary herbs.  Culinary herbs and spices add zest to every dish served at every hour around the globe.  If you are making food products that will be resold, wholesale spices offer a great way to save money on all of your favorite ingredients.  Here are just a few ways that herbs and spices are used to increase the flavor and aroma of different regional cuisines.  

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Open Doors at a Culinary Art College
Sunday January 10th 2010, 12:18 am
Filed under: culinary arts

A culinary art college helps you become a better cook by giving you a well-rounded education. A culinary art college can help you maintain that balance between the body’s needs and the body’s desires, by teaching you how to prepare exquisite dishes while keeping the principles of basic nutrition in mind. To this end, a culinary arts education will start with instruction in basic food preparation, laying the groundwork for more specialized inst (more…)



Thyme is a Marvelous Culinary Herb
Friday January 01st 2010, 1:01 am
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Thyme is definitely a user-friendly herb. It is an easy to grow perennial, and provides a variety of choices in their growth habits and flavors. It likes a poor, dry soil in full sun.   

Thymes are evergreens, and some varieties like common garden thyme can have a hard time surviving a bad winter in the extreme northern zones. Low growing thymes have a better chance to survive at ground level. Choosing your plants will mean you have (more…)



What to Look For in Culinary Arts Schools
Wednesday October 28th 2009, 12:23 pm
Filed under: culinary jobs

When you are choosing a school to study food courses at, knowing what to look for in culinary schools means that you will make the right choice the first time. Asking around in the industry to see which schools employers favor is a good way to get an idea of the most respected and highly thought of schools. If location is a factor for you, then you will need to ask around within your city or at least state (unless you don’t mind traveling).<br -/> />

It is believed that these schools have the most success when it comes to job placement after study, with many employers taking students as soon as they graduate.

Cooking is growing in popularity as a career choice due to TV shows and online sites which have shown people how fun it can be to be involved in a culinary career. It’s also reasonably paying and there is plenty of room for advancement as chefs can work their way up within a particular restaurant. In addition, there is also room for advancement in better restaurants and other cooking establishments. Usually the better restaurants pay their chefs higher salaries.

Some of the best culinary schools around the world include:

USA
The Culinary Institute of Canada (Charlottetown, PE)
California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena
Orlando Culinary Academy
Texas Culinary Academy’
Pennsylvania Culinary Institute
The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago
Lincoln College of Technology
The Culinary Institute of America
Le Cordon Bleu College Of Culinary Arts – Las Vegas, Atlanta, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami and Dallas
The Restaurant School, Philadelphia

UK
School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology, DIT, Dublin, Ireland

Oceania
North Shore International Academy, Auckland, New Zealand

Other locations
International Centre for Culinary Arts, Dubai
Culinary Academy Of India

The above schools are all highly regarded in the culinary industry and a qualification from any will result in an outstanding looking resume. But there are many others. And even beyond the school you go to, the cooking establishments you work in and receive further training from will help your resume as well.

At culinary school you will learn about cooking, baking, nutrition, food standards, food identification, food hygiene, recipes preparation, menus and much more. Most schools have outstanding and experienced culinary chefs as teachers.

Culinary schools such as those listed above are equipped with full scale kitchens that replicate those found in the industry. This gives students the chance to gain experience in a real environment as well as utilize all utensils and equipment that would be found in a job situation.

Some culinary schools specialize in particular aspects of the subject such as baking and pastry, fine dining, corporate and event dining and others. There are also more and more online culinary schools where students can study at their own pace and complete practical exercises at home.

Becoming a chef or other professional through completing a certificate or degree at culinary schools is an excellent way to form a solid and exciting career. There are countless opportunities for advancement and there is a lot of money to be made in an industry that is growing more every year. more