Free enrollment in the American Egg Board’s Egg Foundation courses with partner Rouxbe will end Dec. 31, 2020.

Thank you to Dr. Fred Mayo for his more than 10 years as the whit, intelligence and inspiration behind Gold Medal Classroom’s Mayo’s Clinic.

Editor’s Note: Mayo’s Clinic has been a Gold Medal Classroom staple and source of interesting information and thought-provoking teaching strategies for more than 10 years. As his columnist tenure comes to a close, Mary Petersen and I would like to say thank you to Dr. Fred Mayo for your years of service and dedication to the culinary arts education industry. Your contribution to CAFÉ and GMC has been immeasurable and appreciated. Thank you.  

By Dr. Fred Mayo, CHE, CHT

Learning from experiences in 2020 will help us prepare and plan for the future.

By Paul Sorgule, MS, AAC

Students lead holiday cooking lessons based on their own culture or one assigned by the instructor.

By Adam Weiner, JD, CFSE

Florida International University’s John Noble Masi offers Zoom teaching tactics, options for video resources and shares his students’ first-place award in virtual restaurant competition.

By Lisa Parrish, GMC Editor

The Gold Medal Classroom continues to highlight culinary instructors who are achieving success during online culinary instruction. These educational best-practice ideas are designed to help culinary colleagues in their search for what works best in this new and challenging environment. 

Read on to discover the best evaluation criteria for home-cooked lessons, where to find video content and see how instructor John Noble Masi helped steer his student team to a first-place finish in the virtual Redesigning the Restaurant of the Future competition sponsored by Restaurant Finance Week.