The upcoming school year looks bright for the more than 10,000 students who are enrolled in Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), the
21-year old non-profit dedicated to providing culinary career training
and scholarships to under-served high school students throughout the
nation. C-CAP has partnered with the online Rouxbe Cooking School to bring a modern approach
to culinary teaching and give students of the “net generation” online
access to the C-CAP Approved curriculum enhanced with Rouxbe’s instructional culinary videos, recipes, and assessment tools. The C-CAP Approved curriculum program will also be available to high schools who are not affiliated with C-CAP.
As public school funding is slashed across the country, budgets are
being cut to the point that some culinary teachers can’t afford the
ingredients to demonstrate culinary techniques, and teachers without
culinary training are being asked to teach cooking classes. The C-CAP
Approved/Rouxbe partnership transforms culinary education for both
students and teachers as it gives lessons additional focus and brings
professional quality training to more students than previously possible.
“Our job is to ensure all of our students are prepared for college or
careers upon graduation and we are excited to start using the new and
innovative C-CAP/Rouxbe curriculum to help our students achieve
excellence in the culinary arts,” said New York City Schools Chancellor
Dennis Walcott.
Teachers are preparing to adopt this program this fall. "I am
overwhelmed with excitement," says Yvonne Bernino C-CAP teacher in
Arizona. “This is my fourth year teaching culinary arts, I am not a
professional trained chef...but, an award winning Family & Consumer
Science teacher. Rouxbe is exactly what I have been praying for! I
believe C-CAP Approved/Rouxbe will give my students (and me) that
professional training I always wished I had."
To create this new integrated product, C-CAP and Rouxbe correlated
Rouxbe’s library of over 1,000 instructional videos to the C-CAP
Approved curriculum. Rouxbe’s close-up videos differ from those on other
websites in two important ways: they focus on skill and technique
rather than recipes, and on education rather than entertainment and
celebrities. Supplementing the instructional videos are hundreds of
practice exercises and recipes, more than 1,000 interactive quiz
questions, and numerous tools for teachers to assess student knowledge.
“I spend a lot of time teaching young cooks better technique,” said
world famous Chef and author Marcus Samuelsson. “Whether students are
in school or working in the industry, Rouxbe has created an exceptional
culinary training tool that can reach aspiring chefs on a scale not
previously thought possible. Together with C-CAP’s strong focused
curriculum and its industry respect, this partnership will have a
tremendous impact on any student considering a culinary career. I
also believe that by teaching young people how to prepare and cook fresh
ingredients, it will help to address the obesity epidemic ravaging this
country.”
For teens preparing to work in professional kitchens, this training
resource is a unique tool for readying students for culinary careers.
“Never in my four decades of culinary education have I seen a resource
with Rouxbe’s potential to transform the way students learn and teachers
teach,” said Richard Grausman, C-CAP Founder, culinary educator,
cookbook author, and winner of a James Beard Award for Humanitarian
Service. “I’m particularly excited to combine Rouxbe with our C-CAP
Approved curriculum so that schools and teachers have a turnkey solution
to prepare students for jobs in the food services industry.”
“C-CAP is a pioneer in culinary education and has helped thousands of
public school students prepare for careers in the food services
industry,” says Paul Bloom, CEO of the Rouxbe Cooking School. “We are
excited to combine our professional instructional cooking videos with
the C-CAP Approved curriculum as a resource for schools to teach
essential cooking skills to their students.”