Culinary Institute

The Culinary Arts program is designed to provide classroom instruction and practical hands-on laboratory work in a kitchen setting. Emphasis is placed on building skills and techniques while providing for study in advanced and emerging areas of culinary arts. Introduction to culinary arts management provides the student with a solid hospitality business foundation. The program has a strong entrepreneurial and practical focus with the ability to apply the knowledge and skills obtained too many businesses.

Culinary arts graduates are trained for careers leading toward the following job opportunities: Sous Chef, Banquet Chef, Executive Chef, Caterer, Food sales representative, Kitchen Manager, and Corporate Chef.

Assistance is provided for American Culinary Federation apprenticeship training and testing, as well as local and national internship positions (Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL). Scholarships are available to culinary ar ts students from local hospitality and food service venues as well as LCCC.

The Pastry Arts program is designed to prepare students for careers in pastry arts or baking in the hospitality industry. Students will meet the objectives of the course through hands-on, production and theory application. This major develops skills and knowledge necessary to obtain entry level employment in local bakeries, local restaurants, and resorts. Skills developed through this course will help develop the students for exciting careers as pastry arts managers and pastry chefs.

• Culinary Arts

• Pastry Arts

There's a lot of opportunity here for the students, and there's a lot of places for them to work. There's not a day that goes by we don't get a call from local restaurants looking for experienced people ready to work.

I love every single class I've taken here. Every class is just welded perfectly. Having the hands on experience that we have here is amazing, considering most of us want to be in the culinary field. So going from here to a kitchen, it's not very difficult. We've already done it. All we have to do is put our knowledge to where we're going.

You learn the basics of cooking, and we teach that right from the get go. Good basic knife skills, good basic cooking skills. In the course of one class, by the end of the semester, they will have plated anywhere from 30 to 45 restaurant quality dishes.

Then they go on to take a breads class, they go on to take a pastry class where they're making like eclairs, cream puffs, pies. They go on to take a basic cake decorating class where they're doing the basics of cake decorating. So they get the whole gamut. We want to have them basic skills in all those areas, so they can be employable in a lot of different places.

It's amazing how much you can get done and how much you can see in this program for you to be ready for anything that you have to do.

Everything that you would need in a restaurant, we teach here.

The great part of the program is having enough experience to go straight into your career.

Many of my students come back to visit. I'm really really pleased when I hear that they're still in the business.

I would recommend this program to everyone on every street I've ever seen in my life. This program has changed me for the better. It's helped me get so many places that I've wanted to be.

What I'm most pleased about is helping students achieve their goals. Because every student comes here with a different goal. Some want to open a restaurant, some want to be a chef, some want to work in food science, some want to be nutritionists. So I just help them to find out what their goals are and help them achieve them through our program.

I'm really going to be upset when I leave. This program has benefited me in so many ways that I don't even understand fully yet. And not taking this opportunity would have been a big mistake in my part.

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