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“Real World Kitchen Experience”

Guthrie Job Corps Center's Culinary students had the chance to get a "real world" kitchen experience for three days this month at Platt College in Oklahoma City.    At the end of the camp they had the opportunity to show off the skills they had learned by inviting...

Culinary Arts Students Visit Trade Show

Five Culinary Arts students traveled with Career Technical Training Manager Elba Roca to the National Restaurant Association trade show in Chicago. Students Deandre Reyez, Daniel Contre-ras, Laterrie Miller, Markeyta Bowen and Jaekwon Collier were hungry when they...

Exeter Job Corps recently hosted its Battle of the Trades event and it was an epic throw down.  White jacket versus Black jacket Culinary students competed in a fierce competition chopped style.  Teams of two were given two rounds to showcase their skills in an...

Culinary Arts Students Become Personal Chefs

The Culinary Arts Students tackled a very personal challenge last week. They created lunches for some staff members based on interviews that determined each person’s mealtime preferences. The goal of the exercise was to improve the students’ interviewing skills and to...

Culinary Arts Students Bake Fabulous Cakes

Miracle Sawyer and Arianah Walker worked together recently to bake a pair of delicious cakes. Each confection had alternating layers of chocolate and white cake. To get the project started, the students first baked the two cakes. Then they cut through the center of...

Culinary Arts Student Bakes Beautiful Cake

Zharia Finley really wanted to bake. But she was a little afraid. Growing up, the 16-year-old Joliet Job Corps Center student had always watched her grandmother make cakes – vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. “It looked so fun!” she said. But she was afraid to try it...