Baking & Culinary Articles

Senior students in the culinary arts and systems major raced against the clock to create three dishes that would impress the judges during the first cooking challenge in their Culinary Competition and Skills Assessment course. Serving as judges were the Williamsport Country Club's Chef Christopher R.

The fast-paced world of Pennsylvania College of Technology alumna Kristi L. Ritchey comes alive in the latest video added to the college's YouTubeChannel . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2__sBzKrA Ritchey, a 2002 culinary arts technology graduate, is the executive chef and director of operations for Los Angeles-based Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop.

On March 2, the public is invited to view intricately decorated, multitiered cakes created by Pennsylvania College of Technology's baking and pastry arts students. "Butterflies" is the theme for the cakes, which will be displayed as part of a contest developed for the students by an industry leader in the world of wedding cakes. Students have spent about eight weeks of class time on their cakes.

Photo gallery Pennsylvania College of Technology announced the winners for its annual Food Show, held in December as a showcase for final projects in advanced culinary arts and baking and pastry arts courses at the college. Taking the Chef Eugene Mattucci Best of Show Award was a chocolate house made by Alisha M. Howell, a baking and pastry arts student from Waymart.

Performing one of their last duties before graduating from the baking and pastry arts major, students in Chef Monica J. Lanczak's Pastry Food Show and Buffet Presentation Concepts course prepared and served a Grand Pastry Buffet attended by members of Penn College's 1914 Society on Sunday.

Limited only by their imaginations (and the end of the fall semester), students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Hospitality once again put on a dazzling display of playfulness and prowess for the latest edition of the annual Food Show in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room.

Culinary arts and baking and pastry arts students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will show their final works during the School of Hospitality's annual Food Show on Dec. 2.

Students in Penn College's School of Hospitality worked alongside Sabrina LaRosa, who traveled from her home and her mother's cooking school in Calabria, Italy, to teach students the recipes and techniques of authentic southern Italian cuisine. Her visit culminated with a Visiting Chef dinner on Friday, which raised funds for annual scholarship awards.

The fruition of a full semester's project by 11 students in Chef Monica J. Lanczak's Advanced Patisserie Operations class a baking and pastry "trade show" will be held Friday morning in Room B129 of the Hager Lifelong Education Center.

Several members of the Hospitality Living-Learning Community worked with their Resident Assistant, Lewis D. Robinson, on Friday to prepare a meal for one another (as well as any residents from the floor who wished to attend).