Gold Medal Classroom, The Official E-zine for the Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education

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September 2017 Issue
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September 2017 Issue

The Gold Medal Classroom: 
The official ezine for CAFE   |   September 2017 issue

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FEATURES:

Boost flavor with global spices, sauces, and condiments that accompany main menu items. On-trend ethnic entrée offerings continue to attract consumers.

Instructor Vicki Mendham describes her all-expense paid immersive cheese externship she won from CAFÉ, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board and Emmi Roth USA.

Mark your calendars for the best – and only! – CAFÉ 2018 Leadership Conference dedicated to chef educators and their unique challenges and needs.

Instructors' Homework: Teach students that using locally sourced ingredients is the perfect way to make their dishes stand out. 


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Mayo’s Clinic: Instructors can use backward introductions and front loaded content to start the first class off right. 

50 Min Classroom: Learn which position in a commercial kitchen is the most important to the kitchen’s success. Hint, it is not the chef.

Think Tank: A fresh start: Incorporating the current state of the union into your classes.


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New accredited program educates foodservice professionals on watermelon aspects from garde manger to flavor versatility.

Instructors invited to join the James Beard Foundation’s pilot program to reduce food waste.


DID YOU KNOW? 

CAFÉ’s Industry Resource Center lists more than 80 commodity boards, associations and growers with links to their foodservice web sites. Educators can find classroom visual aids, downloadable materials, blogs, videos and research. Industries featured include meat, poultry, seafood, produce and dairy just to name a few.
 
CAFÉ Industry Resource Center Feature: beef resource guide photo web
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Click here to watch various videos on beef fabrication, download an e-brochure and booklet on cuts, and register for Beef University, where you can learn about everything from beef production to nutrition to today’s modern beef consumer. 
 
CAFÉ Visions Resource Feature: Chef Tomm
Click here to watch several video clips of Chef Tomm, of the Interactive Cooking Show ‘Culinary Secrets’, showing chefs how to make Chinese Hand-Pulled Noodles, Potstickers, and Shrimp Scampi Pizza.