Intro to Culinary Arts

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Pricing Packet: https://drive.google.com/a/deforestschools.org/file/d/0Bx08OUPaXTU0T1dsNVluUTI5MlpSWk01WDNsVUFJM1hTRzEw/view?usp=sharing


Intro to Culinary Arts


Class assignment:


Unit 1: Introduction to Culinary

  • Culinary career exploration, employment skills, and kitchen conversions (kitchen math)
  • Learn how to "plate your food" for a restaurant
    • Ice cream plating
    • Crepe lab

Unit 2: Knife Skills and Garnishing

  • Brunoise & Julienne cuts (with potatoes)
  • Green onion curl
  • Radish fan & crown
  • Pickle fan
  • Orange twist & crown
  • Carrot flower
  • Tomato flower & rose
  • Apple bird

Unit 3: Breakfast Cookery

  • Egg & toast lab
  • Omelette lab
  • French toast lab
  • Waffle lab

Unit 4: Herbs

  • Research a chosen herb and teach the class
  • Herb Likes His Herbs team project
  • Dried vs. fresh herb lab

Unit 5: Pasta

  • Homemade sauce with box noodles lab
  • Homemade noodles with jar sauce lab

Unit 6: Restaurant/Menu Project

  • Create a restaurant/menu
  • Create five recipes to make in class
    • Appetizer lab
    • Soup lab
    • Salad lab
    • Sandwich lab
    • Dessert lab


  • Drink lab (smoothie creation)
  • Herb cooking challenge

Final Exam: Iron Chef challenge and written exam

Link to all restaurant websites

4th hour

6th hour

Past examples:

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