Welcome to the Academy for Advanced Studies

#Must Love Food

Thank you for choosing this course.

I am Tricia Vera, your Chef Trainer for the next 9 weeks. We will be learning about the food service industry and how you can learn the life skills of cooking. This course will teach you a different way to look at food. We will dive into how the kitchen brigade started and where we are today. We will learn what it means to have work ethics in the workplace. You will learn how to market food service skills to acquire a job, make dinner for the family, or just learn to cook as a hobby. We will do this by learning through collaborative projects (not your traditional ones). Students will have individual assessments to gauge their understanding. There will be times we ask parents/guardians to observe or record students making a dish, setting a proper table setting, or just evaluating (truthfully) the taste of a dish. Parents are given the task of asking their students questions about what they have learned.

A little about me. I have been teaching since 2006 and have worked in the food service industry on and off until now. I have worked with dual enrolled students and degree college students in another school district. I live in Henry County and believe the Hospitality Industry is the best industry to work in, because no matter where you live, hospitality has to eat.

Looking forward to a great semester,

Chef Tricia Vera

tricia.vera@henry.k12.ga.us

770-320-7997

Available from 1:20pm - 2:30pm Monday–Thursday