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Culinary Arts 1 and 2 Model

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Employment Portfolio
- Job Applications
- Writing a Resume
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- Letters of recommendation
- Job Interviews
Careers and Job Skills
- Job or Career?? What do you want?
- Becoming a Chef
- Bobby Flay's Road to Success
Safety and Sanitation
- Handwashing 101
- Introduction to Micro-organisms and Foodborne Illness
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Knives and Small Tools
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- 2. Knife Safety & Sharpening
- 3. Getting Started - Kitchen Tools & Equipment
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  - Culinary Tools & Euqipment
Equipment, Policy and Procedures
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Recipes, Formulas, Costing and Applied Business to Food Service and Hospitality
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- Vocabulary Memory Review Game
- Following a Recipe....
  - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
  - What's Cooking?
- How to Concassé
- The "Price" of Today's Food
Garnishes and Plating
- Effects of Mouthfeel on Food Evaluation
  - Warm-Up
  - Effect of Mouthfeel on Food Evaluation
- Eating With Our Eyes: Factors in Plate Presentation
- Learning to Properly Cut Orange Segments
- Plate Presentation Based on the Elements and Principles of Design
Herbs and Spices
- An Introduction to Herbs
Salads and Dressings
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Sandwiches, Cold Pantry and Appetizers
- Stimulating the "App"etite
- Devilish Eggs
  - Heavenly vs. Devilish egg videos
  - Create your deviled eggs
- Which "Wich"?
- Sandwiches
Culinary Nutrition and Food Science
- The Food Pyramid (& Now Plate) & You
- Improve A Recipe Project
- Juice Critique
- Fat and our Daily Diet
  - Scary Fat Demo
  - Fat Notes
  - Count Your Fat Grams, Daily Fat Intake
  - Strategies to Enjoy
  - Make Smart Choices
- Calculating Calories
- Culinary Caregiving
- Burn, Baby, Burn - The Role of Metabolism and Activity Level
- "Health-i-fied Cake Mix???"
- Chewing Gum Lab
- The "Price" of Today's Food
Front of the House and Serving Techniques
- Customer Service
Menus and Marketing Strategies
- The Menu
- Menu Planning
- Designing a Menu
- Menu Pricing
Stocks,Soups and Sauces
- Stocks The Foundation of the Kitchen
- Types of Soup
- Potato Leek Soup
- Cooking 101, Sauces
- Making Sauce A La Minute
Grains, Pasta and Vegetable Sides
- Introduction to Whole Grains
Eggs, Dairy and Short Order
- Functions of Eggs in Recipes
- French Rolled Omelet Day 1 of 2
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- Making Pudding
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Poultry
- Butchering a Chicken
Meat
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- Ground Beef Comparison
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Fish and Shellfish
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Bakery, Cakes and Pastry
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- Introduction to Laminated Doughs
- Croissants
Desserts
- Ganache
- Caramel Making
Cultural and Global Food
- Cultural Foods Project (Part 1 of 4)
  - How do food and culture relate to each other?
  - Geography and it's specific effects on food
- Project Guidelines (Part 3 of 4)
  - Cultural Foods Project Guideline
- Culture and food (2 of 4)
  - Food and it's role in culture
- Lab - planning and cooking a 3 course meal (4 of 4)

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Activity Originally Created By: Delaine Smith

Make Smart Choices

Part of Lesson Plan: Fat and our Daily Diet

Activity Overview / Details

Distribute the handout and have students review it. Ask students to list 3 commonalities found among the foods that have low fat content (0-2 grams) vs. higher fat content (3 and up). Ask 4 students to share their conclusions. Highlight the studnets who say something like "more fresh foods, not packaged foods."

Materials / Resource

Make Smart Choices.doc [ Download ] A list of foods arranged by fat content.

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