October 2022 Issue

Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | October issue

FEATURES:

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Teaching cake decorating during Halloween. Turning a devilishly tricky topic into a tantalizing treat.

My world according to chocolate. Acting as a culinary chocolate mentor is the best job in the world.

Frozen raspberries add flavorful pop and brightness to baked items. Time-saving frozen raspberries go from freezer to application and help build flavorful masterpieces.

COLUMNS:

Guest Columnist Dr. Jennifer Denlinger: Chocolate differentiation and developing students’ palates. Culinary students view, taste, cook and develop their chocolate palate in this differentiation classroom exercise.

Think Tank: A culinary degree is incomplete without storytelling and inquisitiveness.

50 Minute Classroom: Including environmental issues in your day-to-day teaching. Start small by addressing energy consumption and food waste topics in every class.

ADDITIONAL BAKING ARTICLES:

Understanding chocolate’s nuances: The science of chocolate starts in the cacao fruit trees and transforms the humble pod into a sweet ingredient nearly everyone thinks they know.

The role of butters and creams in baking: Teach students how butter, buttermilk, cottage cheese, cream, sour cream and yogurt are essential to bakery products’ tastes and textures.

Chocolate academy classes for novices to professional chocolatiers. Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy in Chicago offers instruction on all things chocolate.

DID YOU KNOW?

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. olive oil web

CAFÉ Vision Feature: Olive Oil

Click here to learn about proper storing techniques to maintain the quality of olive oil. While you are there, scroll down to view other videos including cooking with olive oil and information on the healthy benefits of olive oil.

CAFÉ Industry Resource Feature: Bread Bakers Guild of America

The Bread Bakers Guild of America has dedicated itself to advancing the artisan baking profession. The Guild is well-known in the baking community as the go-to educational resource for substantive, accurate information on the craft of making bread. If you want to know how to make incomparable bread – mix it, ferment it, shape it and bake it, this is the place to go. The materials and activities generated by The Guild are available nowhere else. They represent the cutting edge in providing the tools needed to produce the highest quality bread products.