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Find out how you can propel your culinary career to new heights! Dive into strategies and insights that may foster professional growth—which could position you for success in a competitive industry.
How GLEAM & Escoffier’s Mentorship Program Can Guide Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Escoffier has teamed up with the GLEAM network to offer mentorship opportunities to student and alumni entrepreneurs. Check out these success stories!
How to Communicate Effectively in the Kitchen
Check out these tips on how to communicate in the kitchen for both a productive and safe foodservice operation.
What Skills Do You Need for a Career in Hospitality and Tourism?
Learn about the important skills you need to start a successful career in the hospitality and tourism industry.
7 Tips for Becoming a Faster Cook
If you’re looking to increase your speed in the kitchen, check out these tips for becoming a faster cook.
What Chefs Look For When Hiring Culinary School Graduates
Before you begin a professional cooking career, learn about what chefs may look for when hiring culinary school graduates.
5 More Ways to Manage Your Time as a Chef
Kitchens are busy places and chefs have to efficiently manage their time. Here are five time management techniques that chefs can adopt.
Is Getting a Degree in Holistic Nutrition and Wellness Worth It?
Yes it is! Holistic nutrition and wellness is about more than just healthy eating. It could be the first step to an exciting and lucrative career in health!
Why Are Internships and Externships Important For Culinary School?
Internships and externships allow students to work in professional kitchens and develop skills outside of the culinary school classroom. Here's how.
French Culinary Education: 7 French Cooking Techniques Chefs Need to Know
Build flavor with a simple mirepoix and a fresh bouquet garni. Perfect your julienne and brunoise. And get plenty of practice in French culinary school.
10 Tools You Need in Your Chef Utility Belt
To simplify their job and create a more perfect product, every chef should possess certain culinary tools. Here are the top ten to keep in your utility belt.
What Can You Learn in Baking School?
Are you curious about what baking school can teach you? Here are some of the skills and techniques you may learn to help prepare for a career or promotion.
5 Lessons From Culinary School You Can Use Every Day
Along with kitchen skills, culinary school can expose you to valuable lessons that you can apply to everyday life.
Is Culinary School Considered a “College”?
Where does culinary school fit in with other colleges and universities? Is it a culinary college? A trade school? It turns out “college” is tough to define!
Culinary School vs. Working in a Kitchen: Which Should You Do First?
If you’re unsure whether you should get your culinary degree, let’s look at some reasons to attend culinary school – and some reasons to work in a kitchen.
6 Skills That All Restaurant Managers Need
As leaders in the restaurant world, managers are often well-rounded individuals. Here are 6 skills every great restaurant manager typically has.
5 Culinary School Skills You Can Take With You Anywhere
No matter where life takes you, culinary school can help you develop skills you can carry into the future. Here are the top five.
What It Takes To Be An Executive Chef
Think you’ve got what it takes to be an executive chef? Find out how you can set yourself up for success in your culinary career.
How Much Does It Cost to Become a Nutritionist?
Find out how much it may cost you to pursue a career as a nutritionist. The state where you plan to practice may have a big impact on your costs!
From Substance Abuse to Culinary School Graduate: A Journey of Redemption
From struggles with addiction to working in one of the best restaurants in the world, follow Parker Wilks-Bryant’s story and his plans for giving back.
Career Options For Culinary School Graduates
What can you do with a culinary degree? The options are truly endless. Here are a few common culinary career paths.
How to Start a Career as a Chef Instructor
Learn the steps to becoming a Chef Instructor. Pass on your skills and knowledge, and provide mentorship to the next generation of chefs!
How to Become a Chocolatier
Fancy a career as a chocolate expert? Find out how to become a chocolatier so you can master this sticky-yet-satisfying artistic medium.
Who Hires Online Culinary School Graduates?
Culinary school is the vehicle to a long and fruitful culinary career. Here are some the places online culinary school graduates can expect to find work.
What Every High School Student Should Know About Culinary School
As high school comes to a close, you may be wondering if a culinary education should be your next step. Here’s what you need to know before you decide.
Should I Go To Culinary School? A Guide For Deciding
You can’t answer “Should I go to culinary school” until you’ve answered some other questions first. Use this worksheet to help you think it through.
How Much Do Pastry Chefs Make?
Before you leap into a new career in the baking or pastry arts, what are the salary prospects? And what are the variables that impact those wages?
What Is the World Association of Chefs’ Societies?
The World Association of Chefs’ Societies is a prestigious global association for culinarians across disciplines and international borders. Find out more.
The Pros and Cons of Vocational School: Is It Right For You?
Considering a vocational school? Here’s what you need to know and what to ask yourself as you make this important decision about your future.
The Future of the Restaurant Industry in a Post-COVID World
The restaurant industry was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. What can we expect moving forward, and how can you prepare?
How to Patent or Trademark a Culinary Food Product
If you want to protect your culinary creation, you might consider a patent or trademark. Here’s what these terms mean, and when you may need to use them.
How New Chefs Can Stand Out in the Kitchen
If you’re a new chef who wants to make a great impression, read through our roundup of important chef skills and tips for success.
How Older Workers Can Change Careers and Enter the Culinary Industry
Older adults have different challenges and obligations than young ones. Here’s how they can get started in a new career in the culinary industry.
Job or School: Why Not Both?
Culinarians debating between getting a culinary job or a professional chef’s education shouldn’t choose one—they should choose both. Here’s why, and how it can be done.
From Motorsports to Making Tortes: Certified Master Pastry Chef® Frank Vollkommer
Meet Certified Master Pastry Chef®, Culinary Olympics Gold Medalist, and motorcycle racer Frank Vollkommer. Learn about his impressive culinary career.
Escoffier’s Austin Campus is Kick’n It with New Soccer Stadium Culinary Partnership
As if Austin soccer fans weren’t excited enough over their new Austin FC team, they also have unique food and...
Veteran Lance McWhorter Finds a Home in the Kitchen After His Military Service
Army and Navy veteran Lance McWhorter shares his successful journey from military to contractor to executive chef & restaurant owner. Get inspired!
What Escoffier Chef Instructors Love Most About Their Jobs
Escoffier Chef Instructors share what lights them up in their culinary school jobs, from sharing their passion to providing mentorship and more.
Education: The Most Important Chef’s Tool
Setting yourself up for culinary success means taking advantage of every tool at your disposal. At top of the list is a high-quality culinary education!
2021 Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts Graduates Scoff at COVID
The definition of Perseverance is: continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure or opposition. But there is...
Why a Culinary Degree Doesn’t Automatically Make You a “Chef”
Why aren’t culinary school graduates called “chefs?” Learn why experience and education combined are so important to earning the title of Chef in a professional kitchen.
