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There are over a 100  culinary schools in America Before choosing the right program for you  research: 

bulletthe school's history of how long they have been offering training in this discipline 
bulletthe courses in their curriculum 
bulletthe length of their program 
bulletconfirm that the school is accredited and is recognized by professional associations or universities.  .

Shaw Guides annually publishes a Guide to Cooking and Wine Schools - Career, which lists most of these schools.  Several apprenticeship programs around the country are sponsored by the American Culinary Federation. Usual apprenticeships last three years and involve class work and job training. Official approval indicates that a culinary program fulfills well-known requirements concerning course material, services, and instruction quality. 

Additionally, the American Culinary Federation certifies pastry professionals, culinary instructors, and different levels of chefs. Standards for certification come from experience and formal training. Typically, vocational or trade-school programs present basic instruction food preparation, such as food handling and cleanliness procedures, nutrition, methods for slicing and dicing meats, and fundamental cooking methods like baking, broiling, and grilling.

Vital qualities for chefs, cooks, and food preparation workers include: 

bulletCulinary arts in modern foodservice.
bulletCulinary terms.
bulletUtensils, modern kitchen equipment, knives, and techniques of their usage.
bulletBasic cooking principles (dry and moist cooking and alternative methods).
bulletFive basic (“leading”) sauces, secondary sauces (“small”), manufacture of stocks, soups.
bulletSeasoning and chef’s flavoring.
bulletClasses in meat, poultry and seafood butchering and preparation.
bulletEthnic cuisine, essential baking, starch and potato cookery, and vegetable cooking.
bulletSalads and “garde manger,” breakfast service, sandwich making.
bulletRecipes and menu design.

There are many culinary schools in America.  The key in finding the right culinary program is researching the school's history of how long they have been offering training in this discipline, the courses in their curriculum,  the length of their program and whether they are an accredited school or institute recognized by professional associations or universities. 

 

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