Food & Hospitality
Cook.Ed
Food Is a Craft, a Business, and a Career.
Overview
What it is.
Cook.Ed treats a kitchen as what it is: a creative studio with a service window and a margin. Students cook, cost, plate, and serve, and meet the chefs, operators, and hospitality professionals who make a living doing it.
Who it is for
Students interested in food, hospitality, and the businesses behind them, including those not currently served by academic pathways.
Student learning
- Cooking technique and kitchen discipline
- Food literacy: nutrition, sourcing, cost, and waste
- Menu and concept development
- Service, plating, and hospitality
Real-world application
Connects to careers in culinary arts, hospitality, food business, and events, and to the operators who run them.
Student outcomes
What a student leaves with.
- Practical cooking skill and kitchen discipline
- Food literacy: nutrition, sourcing, cost, waste
- A costed menu or concept the student can pitch
- Direct contact with working hospitality professionals
Delivery
How it runs.
Creative Pathways
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Where this has run.
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Other signature programs.
Bring this program to your students
Bring Cook.Ed to your school or community.
Schools, libraries, community organizations, and public spaces all work. The design changes; the outcomes do not.