If you are an aspiring Chef or simply want to sharpen up your culinary skills then the Culinary Institute of America’s Boot Camp is just the ticket. I attended one of the week-long sessions at the CIA’s Hyde Park location in New York and learned that during this intense course, you come away with a whole new set of skills you can employ in your home cooking.
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From day one, you are dressed in an actual Chef’s Uniform, attend intensive classroom sessions, and then you spend the rest of the time in a CIA Kitchen preparing a variety of recipes with easy to challenging skill levels.
Our Chef/Instructor, Chef Stephen J. Johnson, offers years of experience, technique, and know-how that he shares with you along the way. Among the wonderful easy and useful techniques I learned was a fast and easy way to peel garlic. You simply place the garlic cloves in a stainless steel metal bowl, invert another metal bowl over it and shake hard. Surprisingly, the cloves emerge peeled and ready to go!
