CAFÉ Update February 11, 2021

11 February 2021

You Are Invited

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Coffee with CAFÉ

You are Invited to:

Join us at noon EST, February 19th for two, 20-minute trends presentations, especially aimed at your work in the culinary/baking/pastry classrooms.

Topic:

Umami—what is it and how do you teach it?

Chef Chris Koetke will introduce the topic to you, followed by some great examples of how to teach this often-labeled “mystery” taste.

Umami: This fifth basic taste – alongside sweet, sour, salty, and bitter – was named umami, meaning "savoriness" in Japanese. Umami can be experienced in foods such as mushrooms, anchovies, and mature cheeses, as well as in foods enhanced with monosodium glutamate, or MSG, a sodium salt derived from glutamic acid. (Webster)

In Segment 1, Chef Koetke will give you an overall definition of umami as well as a PowerPoint which you would be able to use in class.

In Segment 2, Chef Koetke will show you some teaching tips on the topic of teaching flavor, including the concept of deliciousness.

Coffee with CAFÉ segments will be recorded and put on CAFÉ’s YouTube channel, Cafemeetingplace, so you can watch them at a different time and/or use them as part of your classes.

Signups are limited to the first 100. Please keep an eye out for our email invite to register for this event.

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CAFÉ Talks Podcasts–New Lesson Plan!

Thanks to Dr. Randall McNamara, we have our next lesson plan which will coordinate with the podcast interview #9 with Dr. Jon Deutsch.

Description: The fragile food supply chain in America is broken and our collective malaise concerning food waste is a crisis that must be addressed. Nearly 1/3 of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted. Learn from Chef Deutsch at Drexel University how educators can make a difference for our industry, for our country, and for the world.

You can access the lesson plans we are producing by being a CAFÉ member. Click here for the list of interviews and ones that have the lesson plan links will be available to you as a member. (New lesson plans will be added each week.)

To see the listing of the CAFÉ Talks Podcasts, click here.

To sign up to receive notifications of new podcasts, click here.

To see a suggested podcast lesson plan on how to teach flavors, click here.

CAFÉ Membership

Help support the organization that is 100 percent devoted to its mission of linking the foodservice industry with the foodservice classroom.

Our outreach programs include:

A website full of resources, www.CafeMeetingPlace.com
A monthly magazine, “The Gold Medal Classroom” with useful features and columns
Bi-weekly podcasts with a variety of hospitality options for you and your students to enjoy
An Awards program recognizing entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, technology, and teachers of the year!
(new) Coffee with CAFÉ, a series of trends presentations to help you keep up to date
(members only) Lesson Plans to correlate with the CAFÉ Talks Podcasts
(members only) subscription to “Journal for Culinary Education Best Practices"
(members only) discounts to CAFÉ events

You can join as an individual, an institution or as an industry member.

To join (and we hope you do!!), go to: https://www.cafemeetingplace.com/resource-center/membership

If you were a prior member and would like to renew your current membership, please go to https://www.cafemeetingplace.com/resource-center/membership and login to renew your current membership.

If you want to transfer from a previous Individual Membership to an Institutional Membership, please review the following instructions here.

CAFÉ 2021 Awards Program

2021 Technology Award

Thanks to Mercer Culinary, we are pleased to announce that a 2021 Technology Award will be offered to individuals/culinary programs that successfully introduced technology in their programs

This Award is sponsored by Mercer Culinary who is proud to reach out to educators and to recognize their efforts instructing students in the complex world of technology and culinary arts.

What are your efforts and successes in this area?

Click here for more information about the Technology Award.

2021 Idaho Potato Commission Innovation Awards

CAFÉ is proud to be partnering with the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) once again as they sponsor the Innovation Awards for 2021.

This Award recognizes educators and/or programs at both the secondary and postsecondary levels who have shown to be innovative in their approaches to effective culinary arts education.

Click here for more information about the Innovations Award.

2021 Kendall College Entrepreneurship Award

Thanks to Kendall College for once again sponsoring the Entrepreneurship Award for 2021.

This Award identifies culinary programs that either (1) teach or encourage entrepreneurship in their programming or (2) implement revenue-generation and cost savings into their operations.

Click here for more information about the Entrepreneurship Award.

2021 Sysco Educator of the Year Award

Thanks to Sysco for again sponsoring the Educator of the Year Award for 2021! This award is open to secondary and postsecondary educators as well as culinary educators working within the non-profit training sector. There will be two awards given.

For more information about the Educator of the Year Award, click here.

2021 Green Award

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 Green Award will be offered to individuals/culinary programs that emphasize sustainability or other “green” aspects in their programs.

This Award is sponsored by the United Soybean Board who is proud to reach out to educators and to recognize their efforts instructing students in the importance of agriculture in their selection of products and designing of menus.

Past winners have implemented aquaculture farms, gardens, farm-to-table menus, waste reduction and more!

For more information about the Green Award, click here.