
April 2025 Issue
Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | April 2025 issue
FEATURES:
Taste happens in the brain (not just the mouth): Curating a delicious multisensory dish is like reading a riveting culinary novel.
Pushing international culinary boundaries with pears: Two chefs show off their Can-Do pear contributions. And you can too in the 2025 contest.
Curriculum content built from flavor outcomes: Build a culinary education around flavor components with courses like Taste 101, Smell 121, Communications: Storytelling.
Online scholarship resources available for high school and undergraduate students.
McCormick for Chefs® launches exclusive small batch series.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES FROM THE GMC ARCHIVES:
Global cuisine fusion case study: New Cuisine Reflects the Diversity of Its Consumers. Melding Latin American and Chinese cuisines becomes a labor of love and example of successfully merging seemingly divergent flavors into one concept.
Building the “why” behind global cuisine flavor harmony: Chart-topping pairings illustrate how ingredients sing together in perfect harmony across the globe.
Introducing students’ tastes to the Philippines: By using Filipino cuisine in your courses, you will help students master the five flavors of taste.
The intersection of cartography and cooking: Identifying world flavors by understanding ingredients and regions.