Student Spotlight: Jazmyn Munn, New International Menus from Open Kitchen @ Home, and more, in our Weekly Update!
Level 2 Students at SCS take a Gastronomy class, which seeks to examine the critical issues facing our food systems, as well as the roles food and cooking play in modern culture. Our second featured assignment is by Karen Huff, who examines the chronic labour shortage in Canadian agri-food production.
One of the theory classes that Level 2 Students take at SCS is Gastronomy, which seeks to examine the critical issues facing our food systems, as well as the roles food and cooking play in modern culture. A recent assignment asked students to investigate a current issue in Canadian food production and consumption of personal interest, and we think some of the very thoughtful submissions might be of interest to you, at home!
The return of Prix Fixe Dinners TO GO, a new Student Spotlight, and more, in our Weekly Update!
The School Year begins now! | Book your table: SCS Dinners start Tuesday, October 22 | Featured Open Kitchen Classes,… Read moreRead moreWeekly Update for October 18-24
You’re invited to our 36th Season Opener | Appetite for Words | Open Kitchen Classes | Fall Dinner Series and… Read moreRead moreWeekly Update for September 27-October 3
Well friends, our school year has come to a close.
As we’re all preparing for our next adventures, I want to offer a little support to our first-year friends going into their apprenticeships…
Somewhere between mankind’s harnessing of fire and Escoffier, it was decided that people who work with food should wear white… Consequently, we culinary students spend a surprising amount of time discussing stain removal!
It’s difficult to talk about your teachers without sounding like a colossal seat-smoocher, but I’m going to risk it. One of the things I really love about working with our chef instructors is the amount of effort all of them put into making each dinner exceptional for every guest. ..
Hi, I’m Jules Faulkner.
I’m delighted and honoured to be this year’s recipient of the Savour Stratford Perth County Culinary Scholarship, generously contributed by the Stratford Tourism Alliance and the Joseph Hoare Gastronomic Writer in Residence Scholarship. The latter of these comes with an opportunity to do some blogging for Stratford Chefs School (SCS).
As new cooks, we are constantly learning: techniques, flavours, equipment we’ve never seen or used before. Everything is fresh and exciting and we want to excel with them all. Skill, knowledge and experience are all required to be a good chef, but knowing how to use them with refinement is what makes a great one.
Earlier this month, during one of the coldest weeks of this winter, students at the Stratford Chefs School were lucky enough to experience some Italian warmth thanks to a visit from Chef Gino Minacapilli. He was here as our second and final International Guest Chef in Residence for this year. He is a chef and teacher at a school of hospitality in the region of Piedmont, an area of Italy renowned for the production of Barolo and Barbaresco wines, truffles and many other Italian delicacies.