culinary techniques

overview

Spectacular meals for the serious amateur
Not everyone who loves cooking great food wants to do it for a living. If you're a serious amateur, Culinary Techniques will give you the skills and confidence to whip up truly outstanding meals at home.
In Culinary Techniques, you'll become firmly grounded in the fundamentals of cooking. You'll spend 110 hours in classes that are fast paced, hands-on, and taught by passionate and accomplished culinary professionals. Kitchen terminology will become your second language, precision knife work your trusted new skill. This program incorporates many of the 250 essential skills introduced in the professional Classic Culinary Arts Course, including preparing stocks and sauces, executing classic recipes, and proper food preservation.

Learn from the same Chef-instructors who teach our career students
In Culinary Techniques, you'll be taught by the same distinguished Chef-Instructors who teach our career students while also working at the very same workstations and in the same kitchens. By the end of the course, you'll be able to create sophisticated multi-course menus, recognize and evaluate classic food pairings, correctly assess seasonings and flavors, and more.

curriculum

Culinary Techniques will teach you:

• An understanding of basic knife skills
• Preparation of stocks and sauces
• Correct execution of building block recipes that every chef knows
• Food preservation
• Principles of kitchen order and sanitation

A Unique Opportunity for Culinary Techniques Graduates
The French Culinary Institute would like to extend an opportunity for graduates of Culinary Techniques to receive Advanced Standing in the Classic Culinary Arts career program, subject to space availability in the day or evening schedule. With Advanced Standing, students bypass the first level of the career program, Introduction to Basic Techniques.

In addition to Advanced Standing, students who take advantage of this offer will benefit from significant tuition savings. For 2010, the total tuition of both courses would be $33,500. Click here to contact an Admission Representative and find out how to get started.

start dates + tuition

Please note: Classes are limited and tend to fill quickly. If the class you select is full, we'll enroll you in the next available class with the same schedule.

Check back frequently since we are constantly updating our course schedules. Or contact us at 888.324.2433 for additional start dates.

Culinary Techniques

Daytime Schedule  
Monday - Friday, 9:30am - 2:30pm

Start	End	Price
September 15, 2010	October 14, 2010	sold out

Our upcoming class has sold out. To join our wait list, call 1.888.324.2433 or email us your name and phone number.

Evening Schedule
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45pm - 10:45pm

Start	End	Price
September 21, 2010	December 7, 2010	$ 7,700

Saturday Schedule  
Saturdays, 9:30am - 2:30pm

Start	End	Price
October 30, 2010	May 7, 2011	$ 7,700

Evening Schedule  
Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:45pm - 10:45pm

Start	End	Price
March 2, 2011	May 16, 2011	$ 7,700

Weekend Schedule  
Saturdays & Sundays, 9:30am - 2:35pm

Start	End	Price
June 4, 2011	August 21, 2011	$ 7,700

Tuition includes application fee, uniform, utensil kit, books and supplies, and daily "family meal" prepared by culinary program students.

  

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advanced culinary techniques

overview

Advanced Culinary Techniques will broaden and add velocity to all the skills you picked up in Culinary Techniques, which is a prerequisite to this course. This 12-session, 60-hour course propels your culinary education well beyond those fundamentals, escalating you to a level of food knowledge that frees you forever from the step-by-step approach to recipes. Advanced Culinary Techniques can be taken during any season. And as each season changes, so does the class. The lessons vary according to which vegetables, fruits, fowl or game are in season.

curriculum

The new skills you'll master in Advanced Culinary Techniques include:

• Creating sophisticated multi-course menus
• Recognizing and evaluating classic food pairings
• Assessing seasonings and flavors correctly
• Learning menu balance from appetizer to dessert
• Acquiring the priceless secrets of food presentation

start dates + tuition

Please note: Classes are limited and tend to fill quickly. If the class you select is full, we'll enroll you in the next available class with the same schedule.

Check back frequently since we are constantly updating our course schedules. Or contact us at 888.324.2433 for additional start dates.

Advanced Culinary Techniques

Saturday Schedule
Saturdays, 9:30am - 2:30pm

Start	End	Price
October 30, 2010	February 12, 2011	$ 2,800*

Amateur Courses make great gifts! Purchase a gift certificate now.

*The prerequisite for this class is Culinary Techniques. Pricing for Advanced Culinary Techniques includes the standard 10% reduction offered to returning FCI students.

Tuition includes books and supplies, and daily "family meal" prepared by culinary program students.