This program was created because there is
a surplus of jobs and a deficit of cooks and
trained hospitality professionals.
What we are doing here is so totally unique
from many other schools, where we have field
to fork concept.
We're teaching the students how food is grown,
how food is processed, and how to bring it
into a kitchen, further process it and get
it on to the plates of customers.
This is the school to be for cooking now.
You have to have a passion for it, and I have
the passion for it.
I love cooking special special meals, I love
plates and stuff like that, and I feel that
that's for me and what I'm going to go into
for sure.
Over the course of their two years at Durham
College, students will be exposed to a variety
of baking techniques, and in the restaurant,
Bistro 67, they'll also be expose to a variety
of service techniques.
The professors are great actually.
I think for me because they are in the field
and they've worked in the field it's easier
for them to work with us in a way that they
need to.
So they've had the experience of everything,
so I think for us it's, their just helpful
because they've had that experience.
At the Centre for Food at Durham College we
have a variety of different labs.
We have one that's dedicated to large quantity
food, a small quantity food lab, and a bake
lab.
There's also a food and wine pairing lab.
Students will be exposed all different types
of food preparation, and different aspects
of what it means to be a true food service
professional.
Students will have an opportunity to work
in Bistro 67, are in school restaurant, and
it's run by students, it's a classroom run
by students.
We serve to the public, a 70 seat restaurant,
and in their first year they're serving lunch
and their learning how to operate as a short
order cook, or a dishwasher, or a server.
Additionally, we have a culinary management
co-op diploma apprenticeship program where
a certain number of select students they go
and do a paid placement as an apprentice in
the summer between their first and second
years of study.
I know for a fact that all of your professors
will give you the skills and the tools to
help you succeed in everything that you do,
and no matter what even if you are not getting
the grade that you think you want, they give
you the push and they tell you what you need
to do in order to get the marks that you want.
