INTERNATIONAL HOTEL SCHOOL - CAREER DAY EXPERIENCE

 WHEN-SCIENCE-MEETS-CULINARY

The International Hotel School has been established for over 25 years by proving quality Hospitality and Culinary educational services ranking it one of the top 50 Hospitality Universities in the world. It is the only tertiary institution in South Africa offering programs recognized by the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI). The International Hotel School is a proud member of Sommet Education, the world’s leader in hospitality management education. It has three prestigious institutions: the hospitality business schools Glion Institute of Higher Education and Les Roches with culinary and pastry arts school École Ducasse.

 

The Hotel School accepted to host our aspiring young Chefs at their facility to educate them on skills and knowledge to obtain to become future Chef professionals. We were welcomed and hosted by Chef Keegan Brook who is the Head of the Department for the Culinary Arts. She provided the learners with an amazing “mouth-watering”, private Ice-cream class session using dry ice. A mind-blowing culinary experience “When-Science-Meets-Culinary”. Chef Keegan shared her industry experiences and life journey with the learners in such a way that it was relatable and inspiring. She continued to advise the learners about the expectations of academic performance, the opportunities offered through enrolling in the institution and the growth of the industry.

 

The learners got the opportunity to engage with the Pastry students at the institution while they were competing in the Avo- Competition 2022 for the prize of R12 000. The competition featured anything that had an element of Avocado, testing the creativity of the student Chefs on how innovative they can be.  The first Pastry student Chef the learners met was Goitsemang Sehalahala who was preparing her “Egg Benedicts” as a competition dish with deep-fried avocadoes with a beautiful golden-brown coating, Yum! 😊.

Johanette Van der Westhuizen was competing with her “Avocado Cream Puffs” dish, with some beautiful avocado pastry with a natural green coloring touch. 

Masego Makole, is such a bright personality Chef competing with her “Avocado Tostadas” with shrimp dish.

Njongonkulu Matsolo showed us his competing dish a creamy “Avocado Panna cotta” dish that is to be served with lime curd and dehydrated berries. Oh! Boy, we so wished we had a chance to taste that. 

Ivan David competed with a “Salt in cracker Avocado ball dish, filled with butter poached prawn with pomegranate caviar”.

These were absolutely exciting dishes and we wish all competition participating student Chefs the best of luck. 

Thank you to Alicia Castles for organizing such a beautiful Culinary Career Day experience for our learners. This was an empowering experience and we are sure it motivated our learners to work harder towards their studies.

To view more pictures and videos of this Career Day Experience for aspiring young future Chefs, please visit our website link below and click under Career Day - 2022. We appreciate it if you could give us a google review on the link below so that we can continue to embark on our quest to change the lives of our young ones:

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“A good Chef uses food not just to excite the senses but also to tell a story”.

- WishesMessages.com

 

“Put your head down and work hard.  Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up”.

 – Gordon Ramsey

 

We at E – Articles are pleased that this career day exceeded our expectations, good luck to all the learners.

 

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