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Guest Chef SpeakersPacific Institute of Culinary Arts is pleased to welcome industry chefs to speak with our students about developing their career as a chef. Topics of discussion include how to build one's skills and knowledge in the workplace, industry standards & trends and restaurant operation. Additional seminars will be held on an on-going basis for our advanced Culinary Arts and Baking & Pastry Arts students, allowing them to meet face-to-face with the chefs who inspire them, and who may well be hiring them upon graduation. These popular seminars are available exclusively to our current students. Guest Speaker: December 2007Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts was honored to have writer & journalist, Michael Ruhlman visit the Institute on December 5th to speak with our students about his career and love of cooking as well as engage them in conversation about what makes for a great Chef. Michael was in Vancouver promoting in his lastest book, The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen. He has also written The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America, The Soul of a Chef: The Pursuit of Perfection and The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooking in the Age of Celebrity. He spoke to our students about the need to deepen the fundamentals & basics at school because it is 'reality' cooking and to always read a lot because you can never learn everything. "To be a cook is hard work but very fulfilling work. It is an engaging career where you will never stop learning." Guest Speaker: October 2007Claire Clake, Executive Pastry Chef @ The French Laundry in Napa Valley, California Our students were thrilled to meet and chat with Chef Claire during her recent trip to Vancouver to promote her new cookbook, Indudge: 100 Perfect Desserts. She spoke of the importance of learning 'the basics' exceptionally well and then using these basics to build on one's own repertorie. She gave all of the ladies who are aspiring to be Chefs a word of advice - "You have to work twice as hard as men in this industry' in order to get ahead. Thank you Claire! You truly are an inspiration to us all. |
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