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Exploring Colorado Cuisine: How Boulder Is Shaping the Next Generation of Chefs
How Boulder's farm-to-table culture, Michelin recognition, and collaborative spirit shape culinary education and Colorado's emerging food scene.
What Is a Sous Chef?
Explore the sous chef role, from daily responsibilities and required skills to career progression, education options, and salary outlook.
Can You Start Culinary School Mid-Year? Understanding Enrollment Dates
Can you start culinary school mid-year? Learn how Escoffier’s rolling start dates can let you begin your culinary education on your schedule.
Associate Degree vs Diploma: What’s the Difference?
Trying to choose between a culinary diploma or associate degree? Compare program length, focus, and flexibility to find the best fit for your goals.
How You Can Become a Pastry Chef
Discover how you can become a pastry chef with detailed guidance on education, skills, certifications, and career paths in baking and pastry arts.
7 Cooking Shows That Can Help You Think Like a Professional Chef
Looking for inspiration in the kitchen? From technique to competition, these shows are chef-approved for aspiring culinary students.
What's Your Ideal Culinary Career? Take Our Survey!
We’ve compiled a checklist of all of the essential questions into one handy tool: career options, culinary interest surveys, educational opportunities, and more.
Take the Culinary Career Survey
Editor’s Choice
FAFSA® for Culinary School: The Essential Guide
Use this FAFSA® application guide to help you get started and speed up the process of securing financial aid for culinary school.
Escoffier 101: Everything You Need to Know About Culinary School
All the answers you need about culinary school at Escoffier. What you could study, how to finance it, and what sets us apart from other culinary programs.
The Essential Guide to Culinary School Scholarships
Tons of resources for culinary school scholarships to fund your education and make your dreams a reality. Options for people from all backgrounds.
Yes, Online Culinary School Works.† Here’s How.
With online culinary school from Escoffier, you can get professional-level training from your own kitchen while juggling family, work, and more.
How to Start a Food Truck: A Step-By-Step Guide
Launching a food truck business can be a rewarding and flexible career option! In our guide, explore what you might need to start: from licenses and permits to marketing strategies.
Get Our How to Start a Food Truck Guide
Education
Is Culinary School Worth It If You’re Switching Careers in Your 40s or 50s?
Considering a career change in your 40s or 50s? Explore culinary career paths, program costs, financial aid, and how you can get started at Escoffier.
6 Ways High School Students Can Plan for Culinary School Costs
Explore 6 tips to help high school students plan for culinary school costs, including federal loans, scholarships, and more.
Gap Year Before Culinary School: Making the Most of Time Between High School and Enrollment
Taking a gap year before culinary school? Explore how to use the time wisely, from kitchen jobs and food travel to saving money and preparing to enroll.
Careers
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Food Entrepreneurship
Success Stories
Gravitate Toward Joy: From One Suitcase to a James Beard Kitchen
Kara Merchant arrived in Charleston with one suitcase and no plan. Five years later, she's the pastry chef for West Virginia's first James Beard Award-winning chef.
How to Change Restaurant Jobs Without Burning Bridges
Leaving a restaurant job? Explore how you can give proper notice, handle counteroffers, and protect your culinary reputation on the way out
From Stress-Baking to Chocolate Judging: How Curiosity Transformed Erin Seidemann’s Life
From stress-baking to judging the world's largest craft chocolate competition, Erin Seidemann followed curiosity and never looked back.
Food Culture
How Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Are Changing the Way We Eat
Curious about plant-based cooking? Explore popular protein sources, their culinary potential, and the techniques cooks can use to transform them.
AI & Cooking: 6 Chef Skills AI May Never Replicate
AI is transforming kitchens, but it can't replace chefs. Discover six human skills that make culinary careers future-proof.
Sweet Meets Savory in the Corniest Cook-Off Yet
We put a pastry chef and a savory chef at a commercial-sized stovetop, then handed them an alarming quantity of corn that both need on the heat immediately. Watch what happens...
