Only with a basic understanding of the composition and structure of everyday ingredients can thoughtful chefs cook with a reliable confidence. In this extended class, students will explore a practical materials science approach to a number of fundamental culinary preparations, in order to gain insight into the chemistry and physics at play in the kitchen. Concepts covered will include emulsions and foams, proteins and starches, and caramelization and the Maillard reaction. Recipe exercises incorporating these processes will include: Vanilla Ice Cream Profiteroles; Passion Fruit Meringue Tarts; Salted Caramel Bonbons; and Soft Pretzels. Professionals, $100; students and alumni, $60.
You will work in teams to execute the class menu. At the end of class, participants gather to enjoy the food they have prepared. Wine is served with meals in most classes. All class menus are subject to change. While a snack platter is offered in both morning and evening classes, you may want to consider a light snack before joining us for class. Students are encouraged to bring a light lunch or dinner to all pastry classes.
You will work in teams to execute the class menu. At the end of class, participants gather to enjoy the food they have prepared. Wine is served with meals in most classes. All class menus are subject to change. While a snack platter is offered in both morning and evening classes, you may want to consider a light snack before joining us for class. Students are encouraged to bring a light lunch or dinner to all pastry classes.
The only way to improve on fresh-baked bread and pastries in your home is...if you could make them without taking up tons of time for rising and resting. Luckily, our ICE Pastry Chefs know all the secrets to baking these faster-than-usual breads and pastries --- which taste just as good. In seemingly no time at all, our table will be overflowing with: zucchini loaves, chai honey scones, and banana nut muffins
Explore plant-based Japanese-inspired cooking in this hands-on class, where you'll create a flavor-packed bento box using fresh ingredients and innovative techniques. Learn how to transform vegetables and tofu into exciting dishes with contrasting textures and flavors ranging from sweet to umami. Students will work in groups to make Marinated Tomato ‘Tuna’ Nigiri with Aquafaba Spicy Mayo; Eggplant ‘Eel’ Nigiri with Seaweed Caviar Pearls; Smoked Edamame with Toasted Nori Furikake; Sweet Root Sesame Kinpira; and Yuzu Ponzu Glazed Tofu with Snow Peas. (Note: This class is vegan & gluten free.)
The sauces you will learn to make in this class are not just for special-occasion dishes you'll prepare once a year. Relying on pantry ingredients and reflecting the contemporary cook's lifestyle, they are meant to easily take a grilled meat or poached fish from simple to superlative with a pan reduction, beurre blanc or a pesto. You will master these techniques by making sauteed steak with red wine reduction sauce; poached salmon with beurre blanc and pasta with pesto.
Ranked as America’s Best Culinary School (USAToday 2019), our roster of Chef-Instructors have run top kitchens around the globe.
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