The Spirit of Beverages: An examination of trends in alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage consumption with an eye toward back of the house synergies.

What happens when a French chef and a cheesemonger are combined? Instructors get an education, pairing ideas and more.

Gold Medal Classroom 2018 article index. Miss one GMC story and you may miss a valuable culinary resource.

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Think Tank: Chef Paul Sorgule focuses on factors that should drive faculty and administrator discussions keeping in mind that resistance to change is a failure formula.

50 Minute Classroom: Students take the instructing lead when discussing and teaching their own holiday food traditions.

Guest Columnist David Pazmino: Creating mini-lectures or stories that relate a lesson’s hows and whys captivates students, helps them retain facts, and develops soft skills.

Mayo’s Clinic: Dr. Fred Mayo discusses helping students establish and attain goals of excellence.

FDA investigating multistate outbreak of E. Coli. Infections likely linked to romaine lettuce grown in California.

2018 New England Food Vision Prize helps change how college students eat.

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.

CAFE Resources Feature: Teaching Tips
Click here to watch master sommelier David Glancy discuss proper decanting of mature red wine as well as the correct way to serve still wine. (Please scroll down to page to view the videos.)

CAFE Industry Resource Center Feature: The Soyfoods Council
Soyfoods can be anything from a maple pumpkin cheesecake tart to a tofu fruit dip to cabbage soup. Instructors can learn about the surprising health benefits of soy, many unusual applications of soy beyond tofu and learn about how to use an Instapot to make soy dishes. This website features videos, nutrition information and a soy 101 complete curriculum created by Christopher Koetke.