Career and Technical Education
Culinary Arts and Hospitality Academy
In the Culinary Academy you get to cook, and you get to experience different
parts of the academy. So, people that want to experience the
restaurant and how to work in a restaurant; it shows you hospitality.
And what to do in the front of the house. And then it shows you
the foundations of the kitchen. They show you different recipes, how to
manage a kitchen, how to cook, how to run a kitchen, and how to treat a kitchen.
Every day, students are able to learn new things about food and hospitality that
spark their creativity and passion for cooking and service. Once mastering the
basics, they can cook and serve their own dishes and specials to guests in the
Bistro. Chefs and teachers encourage students to come up with their own ideas
to make dishes better, and to use their creativity to offer their best food and
services to Bistro guests. Careers that the academy could prepare you for would be
anything in the hospitality world. You could be a chef at the very top of the
line. You could be a 5 Michelin Star Chef. And you could be in
Italy with your own restaurant. There’s a need for people in the culinary and
hospitality world, just because, I mean, everybody’s got to eat, and everybody
likes to eat. There’s got to be people to prepare that food for everybody else.
In this academy I learned respect, and I use that in my everyday life.
Saying yes ma’am or no sir and good morning when you - anytime
that you walk into a room with people. We’ve also learned, I mean
obviously, culinary things like knife skills. We’ve learned the mother
sauces. What makes a soup. What makes a sauce. What makes a dry-heat cooking
method a dry-heat cooking method. How to keep things sanitary, to keep the
kitchen clean. How to not cause a food-born outbreak. All of this will help
you if you want to go into the culinary or food industry.
The certifications - actually, we are going to graduate with an associate’s degree
in Culinary Arts and Hospitality through El Centro, if you do the dual credit
program. And, also, you have to be certified in ServSafe,
which is a food handler’s license, but it’s actually a managerial food
handler’s license. I would definitely recommend the academy to
others, just because the amount of things you learn and the bonds you
form with your classmates. I am excited that I chose this academy
because it got to show me different aspects of the cooking industry and the
hospitality industry by giving me opportunities that I never thought I
could get by the end of high school.
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