Culinary Institute of America – The Best of Culinary Boot Camp [repost]

CIA Boot Camp is so much more than just your typical cooking class. It’s an intensive immersion into the world of food. You’ll learn to cook and bake like a professional with the guidance of our famed chef-instructors. You’ll prepare and enjoy fabulous dishes and, on some culinary Boot Camp vacations, dine in one or more of the CIA’s award-winning restaurants. And when you’re done, you may just surprise yourself with how much you’ve grown as a home chef. Top-quality ingredients, professional instruction, and a spirited community of chefs…they’re all waiting for you at CIA Boot Camp. Read more on next page.

The Best of Culinary Boot Camp provides the perfect opportunity for veteran campers to relive their CIA culinary experience and for potential students to get an inside look into the hallowed halls of The Culinary Institute of America. Join Chefs John DeShetler, Hinnerk von Bargen, and David Kamen in the CIA Hyde Park kitchens as they teach the fundamentals learned in the Culinary Boot Camp program.

Demonstration-based learning modules offer more than three hours of video featuring the following techniques:
Braising osso buco
Carving a roast
Chopping herbs and examining vegetable cuts
Sautéing and pan-frying
Setting up a cutting station
Creating the perfect consommé
Tying chicken and beef
Fabricating chicken
Grilling beef, chicken, and fish
Preparing tomato concasse
Preparing basic beurre blanc
Preparing a classic stock
Preparing rice pilaf
Preparing spaetzle
Roasting beef and chicken
Toasting nuts
Knife maintenance