Thursday, September 23, 2010

Several Assignments for Today

1. You have been given a list colleges that offer culinary programs.
  • You should all come together to decide who is contacting which school. Everyone should contact a different school.
  • You should email the department head (or dean) and request that they send information about the college and program to ME. Encourage them to send any kind of promotional materials that they can like brocures, posters, stickers, course catalogues etc. The school's address is below.
  • If it is a school that is within 100-150 miles of Quinlan (use Google Maps) see if they would be willing to visit the campus and speak with you all about the college and program.
  • Be sure to tell them how it will benefit you all as a group.
  • You'll have to give them my contact information for scheduling purposes.
 I MUST APPROVE OF YOUR EMAIL BEFORE YOU SEND IT.

2. Take a look at the logos (here).
  • Choose your top three. You should have a small piece of paper. Don't put your name on it. Just mark your choices and turn it in.

3. First period only
  • Print off your 30 chemicals assignment and turn it in. You may have emailed it to me, look in your SENT folder.

Friday, September 17, 2010

CA Logo Designs

Each logo title is represented by the logo underneath.
Please vote on 3 designs. We will narrow the logos down to a choice of three and vote again.
Remember, this logo will be EMBROIDERED on chef coats, used on the CA t-shirts, on menus and banners, etc.
(There is a page break beneath the first logo. You must click on "read more" to view the rest of the logos.)

1. Panther Cafe

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Food Industry Careers

You should research a career in the food industry (anything except chef).
Create a powerpoint presentation with the following information:
  1. Title Slide: Your name, class period & Culinary Arts; Career Name
  2. Salary or how much money a person with this job/career makes
  3. Education and/or training needed to get the job
  4. Certification or licensing other requirements that you can earn for/in this career field
  5. Job duties - What are all the things a person in this career has to do?
  6. Photographic evidence of a person in this career at work
  7. Can you find any notable people in this career?
  8. Are there any websites for this career?
  9. Your opinion
    • What did you learn? What do you think of this career?
  10. Cite sources
    • All the direct website links where you found your images and information
    • http…
Sample list of food industry careers
  • Food critic
  • Food show director/producer
  • Cake decorator
  • Restaurant manager
  • Food safety/health inspector
  • Farmer
  • Food blogger
  • Food taster
  • Restaurant host
  • Food stylist
  • Photographer
  • Dietitian
  • Server
  • Food taster