April 2020 Issue
Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | April 2020 issue
FEATURES:
Make mine a lamb ham: Interest in meat preservation brings lamb hams back to menus.
Don’t skimp on caramelizing onions: Tricks to speed up caramelizing onion time fall short on taste and texture.
Leadership in a crisis: Lesson plan for teaching students leadership in times of internal and external crises.
Buying knives for graduating students: Guide to culinary school graduation gifts including knife and chef’s tool kit suggestions.
GOLD MEDAL CLASSROOM SPECIAL EDITIONS:
ONLINE RESOURCES FOR CULINARY INSTRUCTORS
GMC compiled online culinary education strategies and resources COVID-19 has changed culinary arts education at lightning speed. Read short, practical stories that provide instructors with strategies for moving to online instruction, deciding what content to teach remotely, and learning how to teach distant learning classes.
CAFÉ POSTPONES 2020 EVENTS
CAFÉ rescheduled the 8th annual Deans and Directors Retreat to mid-March 2021. The meeting will still be held in New Orleans with a similar focus and format.
The 16th annual CAFÉ Leadership Conference will be held in June 2021 in Portland, Maine, with a similar focus and format.
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:
Click here to discover ideas for projects such as researching the anatomy and nutrition of eggs, fundraising with mason jar cookie ingredients and helpful ideas like using a PVC pipe to roll out fondant in place of too-porous rolling pins.
CAFE Industry Resource Center Feature:
Wisconsin Cheese
Wisconsin has been making cheese over 175 years, long before the area became a state. Culinary instructors visiting the Wisconsin Cheese site will find cheese pairing information, by cheese OR by beverage. A large video section not only has cheese pairings but also many snippets that describe cheeses, flavor variations, storage information, and more. A special inspiration section describes how cheese wheels are standing in for formal reception cakes.