December 2019 Issue
Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | December 2019 issue
FEATURES:
Making a case for culinary change: Be in the business of making something great by controlling your own narrative.
Fearless innovation in the face of unflinching change: Leadership qualities required for guiding industries and culinary education through change.
2019 Gold Medal Classroom article index: Miss one GMC story and you might miss a valuable teaching resource.
COLUMNS:
Think Tank: Culinary education adopters or disruptors: A process to begin change that will drive culinary education into the future.
50 Minute Classroom: Changing culinary curriculum one class at a time.
Mayo’s Clinic: Dr. Fred Mayo outlines early-stage steps required for changing programs, courses or programmatic activities.
MEET THE GROWERS:
Elizabeth Wittenbach, 25-year-old fifth-generation farmer, predicts future consumers’ taste for the crunchy, juicy, sweet apple.
BREAKING NEWS:
Smithsonian set to showcase brewing history. Part of “FOOD: Transforming the American Table.”
Six aspiring chefs competed at the 2019 United States of Umami Culinary Competition.
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.
CAFE Teaching Tips:
This section features various culinary instructors providing teaching tips from the first day of class activities to a barbeque sauce competition among students. Read about the benefits of a field trip to a local produce or gourmet market and what research students should conduct prior to attending a field trip.
CAFE Industry Resource Center Feature: Dole Packaged Foods
Dole Packaged Foods provides more than quality fruit. The site offers innovative menu ideas, training and trend-forward resources including PDFs, videos and various calculators and information on fruit pairings. Explore the tools and see how to create unforgettable lesson plans.