Culinary Collage week 1

    Sorry for not posting as much lately. I have been doing so much work, its consuming me to the gills. Since we have that behind us, let me tell you my first week in collage. My first class was supposed to be on Monday at 7:00 P.M, but the teacher never showed up so my first official class started the next day with Intro to Baking. My teacher was the head of the culinary department at the collage and her name is Chef D. She is a very nice and very wise teacher. She has been baking for years and she is very famous. She worked at 5-star hotels and she was practically a master chef. She took us around the bakery and dinning room, were we are supposed to work in about 2 weeks. For now its just a lecture class but I am learning a lot about how baking began.

    My next class was food prep essentials with Chef Dorosis. It is my favorite class so far and Chef Dorosis is a very cool teacher. He is a very famous chef and he was once offered the position of being Ronald Regan's personal chef but he turned it down to take care of his family. So far he was very informative in the class and he had all these stories from his past. He is also very interactive with the other students. If you think that this is a hands on class, then I'm sorry to say its another lecture class but a very fun one that gets me excited to be in.

   The next day after that I have a Intro to Hospitality class with Mr. Robert. He is a very nice teacher and I was part of the first class ever to be in the new "Multi-Cultural" room and it look so beautiful over looking the Cafeteria. So far the class is mostly about hospitality and the industry with restaurants and hotels and other cool places like that. So to me, the class is like the Travel Channel but you really learn about what is going on in there.

   Thursday was practically the longest day I have ever encountered. At 10:45-2:35, I have Nutrition with Jo Anne. Not Mrs. Jo Anne but just Jo Anne. She was very excited about the class but it so long and I have to take the tour of the dining room again and we have to walk to the other side of the campus to use the computer lab and walk all the way back to get lunch at 3:00 P.M. Then after about 2 hours of study, I went to my Menu Writing class and my teacher is known as Chef Kibir. She is a very interesting professor, since she said that she worked in the industry for all of her life and she knows about every thing in the business. I believe her because she made it sound so convincing. She lectured about how menu writing goes and gave us assignments for the whole entire 7 weeks that we have class at and we have a lot of projects involving writing menus and make plans to open our own restaurant.

    So that is my entire work week so far. I get Fridays off to get my work done and I can enjoy the weekend if I wish. So now, I'm just finishing up my homework and I'm trying to rest up to do it all over again. I'm sorry to say I couldn't give you a tip today but I will tell you something I like to tell you the secret of the culinary world.

    Culinary world secret: In cooking school, you need to read a lot. Its not just about how well you do in the kitchen but what knowledge you possess.

    So now its time for the postal question. Tonight's question is actually a little cry for help because in my menu writing class I need to make plans for a restaurant and I cant think of any ideas. So the question is "If you can make restaurant in Chicago, what kind of restaurant would it be and why?" I'm not trying to steal ideas, I just need some inspiration. So just leave me a comment if you have any ideas and I would be very grateful if you can help me. So for now I would see you soon and I will try to leave more posting in case you get worried. Thank you and I will see soon. Bye!