where are we going with korrina so early in the morning . . ?
to grounded to get coffee?
yes, and then to 23rd street where the institute of culinary education resides. we attended an open house with korrina. she's been researching culinary schools and she decided that ICE looked the best to her. today we went to see for ourselves.
the teachers and staff that we spoke with all had a good sense of humor and really sold us on how much they cared about the school and the students. they also have a good externship program, where they place the graduates in restaurants around the city. they also served good food! first came a frittata with salad, then a cooking lesson ending with a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, and then dessert: fresh berries with fresh whipped cream and a buttery biscuit.
korrina decided to apply to the school (to their culinary arts program) and for financial aid.
the library . . i never saw so many cookbooks!
we were there all morning and into the early afternoon. i finally left to attend chanda's acting demonstration, and then my sister and brother-in-law left for home. chanda went with her acting teacher (who had received free tickets to the ballet) uptown for dinner and then american ballet theatre's manon with polina semionova (she was very excited about that). korrina and i stopped by to take care of minerva.
and then korrina went home to bushwick and i met morgana coming home from her guitar concert.
i was rather tired at the end of the day.
Sounds like a lot! I hope you will have some quiet days now. How long will Korrina's program be? Are there any "majors" or do all students learn the same?
ReplyDeletethe program lasts a year. there are different tracks that a student can take: culinary arts, pastry and baking arts, culinary management, and hospitality management. korrina will do culinary arts, and hopefully be placed in a nice restaurant as a starting point to a career. she kept saying she couldn't believe she signed up :) i think she's excited. it certainly looks like a lot of fun and a lot of hard work!
DeleteI hope she will like it and get a good job afterwards. One of my brothers did a hotel management degree (not from a university), but that took three years I believe. He then went on to get a business degree, but now works for Deutsche Telekom, very different from what he had in mind originally. When he was doing the hotel management training we always joked he would open a hotel in Switzerland and then we could all stay for free, but somehow he never got interested in that.
DeleteMaybe Korrina wants to open a restaurant somewhere and then you could all eat for free there.