The Main Courses

My second day of school today and I was really where I belonged. Jackpot!! Screw that Intro to teaching Credential class. It feels forced. Culinary is where I need to be.

The Food Costing course is an elaborate way of saying math class with food. There's a lot of calculations. The upside is that I have to create my own bakery menu consisting of 16 unique items. That means recipes for each, prices of said recipes and calculations for multiple yield variations. I have to say that I'm excited to take on this course. The chef seems a bit bland but I'm hoping I can ignore that.

My last class of the night is just the opposite, boring subject matter but awesome instructor. This guy is not a chef but VP of purchasing for BJ's Restaurants. It's my Food Purchasing and Control class and it sounds more like food marketing than anything else. He talked a lot about the connections made by purchasers and how the right person in that slot can save a commercial franchise millions of dollars. Intriguing. I think I am going to like this course very much so long as I chug coffee through all three hours!

I liken these courses to garden mulch. At first it looks like a bunch of chewed up junk and you can't recognize a single part through the pile of muck. Then you mix it into the dirt, give it a few days and out pops a lovely flower. My brain works that way sometimes. Let's see what kind of flowers I get.