What is culinary school like?

Johnson and Wales was the only institution in the country at that time that was offering two-year and four-year degrees in baking and pastry arts. In the pastry courses, you learn how to work with chocolate and make doughs and laminated doughs. You also have regular curriculum courses on how to run restaurants, food costs, starting a restaurant from scratch and computer courses. They consider you ll be in a management position so there are courses on how to handle people in various situations. Why pastries? I ve always liked sweets. People always remember dessert when they dine at a nicer restaurant. It just makes you feel good because they always remember the pastries. Pastries are more creative. You can t do as much creative stuff with regular food as you can with pastries. I might consider it to be the best job at the UI. I get to work with sweets and with chocolate and be creative. I get to make cute little pastries, and I get to sample the stuff constantly. I ve looked at some ...  more