The Alvin Community College culinary arts program held it's first class in Fall 2006 as a non-credit work force education program, that offered two one year non-credit certificates. In fall 2007 we became a fully accredited culinary program offering two-one year certificates and a 2 year AAS degree. We currently offer certificate classes in the Central unit of the TDCJ, dual credit classes at Glenda Dawson high school with Pearland ISD and at the ACC main campus in Alvin, Texas. Give us a call at 281.756.3949 if you would like more information. It would be our pleasure to visit with you. You may also like to visit the school website at: http://www.alvincollege.edu/culinaryarts/
Our Mission Statement
The mission of the Alvin Community College culinary arts program is to provide our students with an affordable, practical and realistic education in a personalized learning environment where students can gain the skills required for successful entry into the global foodservice industry.
Earlier I posted a picture of myself and one of Chef David Romano who is an adjunct instructor in our our culinary arts program. At long last, here is a photo of Chef Sean Dunn. Chef Dunn joined our staff in fall 2009 to instruct in the dual credit culinary arts program at Glenda Dawson High School.
He is a welcome edition to our staff and has created a lot excitement about the program at Dawson High School. We had great enrollment for the first year of this program and indications are that next years enrollment may have us adding sections. Well done Chef Dunn!
Until I can edit and post some more pictures from the rest of the International Cuisine Class - Happy Eating
Chef Leslie Bartosh
Wow! Have the weeks gone by. It seems like I blink and two or more weeks have zooooooomed by.
Well I will try to play catch up over the next couple of weeks. I still have a lot of photos to process.
I am going to post photos from our Italian section in International Cuisine for right now.
To up date you on what has gone on and what the student are doing: I had the honor of spending Friday February 5 at Foster High School with the culinary arts class of Ms. Yearby. I was able to visit with five classes during the course of the day about being a chef, our culinary program and all sorts of fun things. International Cuisine is over the students have moved into American Regional Cuisine.
Here are the photos from our Italian Section:
First on the menu: Fettuccine alla Matriciana
These photos are in order of how they show in my pictures:
Accompanied by: Focaccia con le Olive: An olive studded Focaccia or flatbread
As a part of the meal we had some wonderful fried Fontina Risotto Balls
Our salad was a delightful Salad Nicoise
Somewhere along the way we also had a wonderful Pizza Rustica, which as you can tell by the photo is not your typical pizza! It is filled with sliced meats, cheeses and features an egg custard base.
Our meals in this section also included Spaghetti Alla Putanesca, spaghetti with olives, capers and anchovies
and Pollo alla Cacciatora: Chicken Hunter Style
Overall the students did a great job on these dishes. We also made fresh ricotta and mascarpone cheese as a part of this section. What fun. I will post more photos soon. Until then: Happy Eating
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