Advanced Foods Description 

This course is designed to provide students further experience in the development of culinary skills, abilities, and knowledge.  Advanced Foods will also examine the commercial food and food service industries as we start building on what was learned in Creative Foods.  You will learn these skills through demonstrations, video & readings, and actual hands-on food production.

 Culinary Arts and Hospitality Foods prepare students for occupations and higher education programs of study related to the entire spectrum of careers in the hospitality industry. This course builds a foundation that prepares students to enter the Advanced Culinary Arts or Advanced Hospitality courses. Major topics include: introduction to the hospitality industry; food safety and personal hygiene; sanitation and safety; regulations, procedures, and emergencies; basic culinary skills; culinary math; and food preparation techniques and applications. Instruction and laboratory experiences will allow students to apply principles of purchasing, storage, preparation, and service of food and food products; apply basic principles of sanitation and safety in order to maintain safe and healthy food service and hospitality environments; use and maintain related tools and equipment; and apply management principles in food service or hospitality operations and laboratory experiences with commercial applications. (from the MDE website)