Pennsylvania Culinary Institute Hosts Cooking School Open House
Hands-on preparation of a meal, pastry or bar beverages will be presented.
Pittsburgh PA (PRWEB) June 16, 2005 -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is known in
the culinary world for its superior chefs. An accolade usually retained for
towns in Italy or France, an amazing number of our country's finest chefs are
trained and apprenticed here in this area. For over two decades, the
Pennsylvania Culinary Institute (PCI at www.pci.edu/index.asp) has been a provider of culinary
education preparing tomorrow's chefs.
This special Open House on
Saturday June 11th covers not only the Culinary Arts and Pâtisserie &
Baking, but also Hospitality and Restaurant Management including the art of
Bartending. Guests will be able to try out a class, including the use of the
cooking school laboratories and training in the top “mix-ology” lab used to
teach the latest recipes used in bartending.
Later in the day, the food
prepared during the classes will be offered for lunch, while an in-depth
presentation on the school and the offered programs will be held.
PCI
strives to ensure that the teachers and programs are current with today’s
progressive styles, foremost skills and industry current technology used in the
culinary world. It has a partnership with the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu and has
its internationally renowned programs as the basis for the curriculum at this
cooking school, offering prestigious curriculums in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts
www.pci.edu/programs/culinary-arts.asp and Le Cordon Bleu
Pâtisserie & Baking www.pci.edu/programs/patisserie.asp and Le Cordon Bleu
Hospitality & Restaurant Management www.pci.edu/programs/hrm.asp.
Pennsylvania Culinary
Institute is located in the center of Pittsburgh's cultural district at 717
Liberty Avenue -- surrounded by many fine restaurants, theaters and art
galleries. Pittsburgh’s diverse and creative environment helps to make PCI the
easy choice to receive a fabulous and nationally-recognized culinary
education.
PCI has had a recent wave of student acknowledgements and
awards. Chef Scott Fetty, who is both a graduate of PCI and a current
chef-instructor, was the 2004 World Champion at the Culinary Olympics in the Hot
Food Competition. This is the first time in 16 years that the US has achieved
this coveted position as the leading culinary competitor in the world.
Matt Weber, October 2002 Graduate of Pennsylvania Culinary Institute,
was awarded
“2005 Best Young Chef in the United States” at The National
Young Chef Rotisseurs Competition Finals, a world wide competition held each
year by the Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs. One of the faculty, Jeff
Hunt, has been traveling back and forth to China, teaching top chefs in Beijing
how to cook American food, in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympics that
will be held there.
The details of the Open House and the programs
offered by the cooking school can be found at www.pci.edu/index.asp or
call 800-432-2433.
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