My name is Zachary Catuci, I am in the Culinary
Arts program at HFM Boces and my home school
is Gloversville High School. We learn things
from ordering food, then math in the food
world to actually preparing the food and plating
it for real hospitality issues and all that.
It taught me that it is hard work but in the
long run it pays off. I think it's helped
me out tremendously for the future cause I've
learned so much about how the real kitchen
works and what to expect there. Chef has helped
me a lot. He is the one that taught me basic
knife cuts to the harder stuff like actually
plating the dish and preparing the dishes
and math wise. He's helped me tremendously.
If we enroll in the Culinary Institute, we
put this on as reference and it makes it easier
for us to get accepted into colleges. I'd
say definitely go for it. It helps you out
a lot. You learn so much here that when you
go into college, you won't have to...you wont
look like a fool basically, trying to learn
these things. You'll already know them and
be like, "Oh, I learned this at HFM Boces."
We learn as much as we would in any other
kitchen here. It's pretty cool.
