Category: Culinary Arts
Watch That Diet…
Eat to live, don’t live to eat – that is the watch phrase these days. It’s not the done thing to be out of shape today, not when all and sundry are becoming increasingly health and fitness conscious. Good health is the result of the right mix of exercise and diet. So it follows that there is a demand for fitness trainers and dieticians.
Not everyone loses weight and gains health by following the same diet. In this situation, it is certainly not a case of “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”. Instead, the dietician has to follow the policy, “one man’s meat is another’s poison”, and fashion diets in an individual manner for all his/her patients.
You can earn a dietician’s certificate online, even specializing in designing diets for various categories of people, from the very ill to those who just need to change their eating habits.
Bon Appetit
One of the most basic needs of any living creature is to be nourished – to eat. And there is an entire industry out there that is geared to meet precisely this need - Culinary Arts. Culinary Arts can be defined as the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared. Want a more ealborate definition?
Culinary art simply means the art of cooking or preparing food for consumption. It is the art of applying and a selection of various methods, measurement and combinations of ingredients, skills, and tools to achieve a well prepared food in terms of flavor, texture, appearance, and nutritional properties. (Filipino Foods Trippin’)
Planning to learn culinary arts online? How practical / feasible is it? Very, claim some experts. Of course, the key is to identify the right program which offers a combination of online tuition with practical class work.
Cooking Up a Storm!
Aspiring to become the sous chef at a fancy restaurant? You can determine if you have what it takes to climb to the top of the ladder in the food handling industry by taking the BBC’s online culinary course __ MasterChef Online. The course comprises two levels that cover the basics of food hygiene, food deliveries and stock rotation, knife handling and safety, food purchasing and budgeting, and patisserie and presentation techniques. The program is designed by BBC Food, with assistance from other professional bodies like the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), The Food Standards Agency (FSA), and the Westminster Kingsway College’s Hospitality and Catering division. The BBC website describes the course as a "taster" to increase awareness and test one’s knowledge of food safety and cooking skills.