December 2021 Issue
Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | December 2021 issue
FEATURES:
2021 Gold Medal Classroom article index: A year’s worth of trusted teaching resources to support culinary instructors.
The business of spirits and beverages: The art of crafting beverages with flavorful spirits and spiritless ingredients is driving a beverage consumption increase.
Teaching about racism in food culture: How sugar became salty in the South and building a unit for Black history month.
COLUMNS:
Think Tank: Determining an educator’s purpose. Building a services portfolio during changing times while serving the underserved.
Guest Columnist Dr. Jennifer Denlinger: Teaching taste beyond flavor. Instructing students how to articulate and relate the differences in how food tastes, smells and feels.BREAKING NEWS:
CAFE Award winner and culinary instructor Amanda Miller a contestant on Netflix’s “School of Chocolate.”
Free fabricating lamb booklet for culinary instructors.
CAFÉ announces 2022 Award program including first-time Student of the Year honor.
CAFÉ’s Industry Resource Center lists more than 80 commodity boards, associations and growers with links to their foodservice websites. Educators can find classroom visual aids, downloadable materials, blogs, videos and research. Featured industries include poultry, seafood, produce and dairy just to name a few.
CAFÉ Lesson Plan
Instructors’ resource helps teach the benefits of US farm-raised seafood. Sustainable seafood is a hot topic for all chefs. When instructing culinary students in various seafood preparation aspects teachers can utilize this web site for go-to resources.
CAFÉ Industry Resource Center Feature: California Prunes
There’s no better place on earth to grow prunes than the lush valleys of California. And the wonders of prunes include low glycemic index, gut effective, bone protective, a polyphenol powerhouse, always in season and convenient. The California Prune website offers cooking and recipe tips, history and farming information and pairing guides. Additionally, the site lists Chef tips from cooks all over the world and their suggestions for cooking with prunes.