A Summer Culinary Program for Fall-Spring Full Time College Student

[matthewy]

I currently major at something completely unrelated to Culinary Arts but I am really interested in going to a Culinary School and maybe pursue a career as a chef. I don't want to give up my fall-spring college at the moment. I wonder if there are any summer class programs at any universities or small culinary schools where I can get a degree from. My school ends around June and it doesn't start till October. In between I can attend to the culinary arts school. I need financial aid(and/or merit scholarships) since I cant afford a second college at any means. Thanks...=))

[RAS1187]

Check out what the community colleges have to offer. You would be very surprised at how affordable some of them can be. Alot of the big schools offer summer courses that last anywhere from a few days to a month. I would suggest anything related to basic knife skills, stock & sauce making, basic cooking principles, and meat & seafood fabrication/cookery.

[matthewy]

Thank you very much for your response...Community colleges might offer some really cool stuff but I really would like to go to one of the "prestigious" culinary arts program. (Things like CIA, Johnson & Wales ...etc...) Thank you very much...Are there any prestigious programs around?

[adamm]

I dont think CIA or Johnson and Wales have anything in the summer, if you wanted to attend there you would have to go there. another option you might want to look at is just getting a job in a real nice kitchen, you can learn just as much from a nice place as you can in culinary school.

[RAS1187]

Originally Posted by matthewy

Thank you very much for your response...Community colleges might offer some really cool stuff but I really would like to go to one of the "prestigious" culinary arts program. (Things like CIA, Johnson & Wales ...etc...) Thank you very much...Are there any prestigious programs around?

Don't waste your money paying for prestige, trust me I did it. Reputable community college programs offer equal quality education as "prestigious" programs. Save yourself some serious cash.

If you still insist on prestige, Le Cordon Bleu offered a week-long summer course that covered the basics of knife cuts and touched very lightly on garde manger and meat cookery. I enrolled into one of these, and this is how I got lured in to the LCB madness. If there is a LCB school around you, see if they have summer "culinary boot camps"