Culinary Arts

During the three years you are enrolled in the Culinary Arts program, you will gain practical culinary skills that increase in complexity as you progress through the program. The program begins with an orientation-level course where you are introduced to topics such as food safety, sanitation, knife skills, basic nutrition, breakfast cookery, potato cookery, appetizers, sandwiches, baking and menu planning. After mastering the basics, the next two years of the program focus on advanced-level food preparation which includes cooking vegetables, meats, poultry, seafood, pasta and grains; creating sauces and dressings; baking; and making soup.

While you are mastering culinary techniques, you will also learn entrepreneurial concepts that will help you to launch your own business, explore college and career options and participate in work-based learning experiences (for example job shadows or internships).

Schools With Culinary Arts Program

SchoolCulinary and Hospitality AcademyStand Alone Program
Chicago Vocational HS◊ Yes
Clemente HS◊ Yes
Corliss HS◊ Yes
Curie HS◊ Yes
Dunbar HS◊ Yes
Fenger HS◊ Yes
Harper HS◊ Yes
Juarez HS◊ Yes
Manley HS◊ Yes
Marshall HS◊ Yes
North-Grand HS◊ Yes
Orr HS◊ Yes
Prosser HS◊ Yes
Richards HS◊ Yes
Roosevelt HS◊ Yes
Simeon HS◊ Yes
Southside HS◊ Yes
Tilden HS◊ Yes
Vaughn HS◊ Yes
Washington HS◊ Yes

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