Kate Hunter, a 2000 culinary arts alumna, offers career insight to students in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts majors. Chef Paul Mach records the mathematical results of students’ bacon-cooking tests. Chris Eckard, of Anchor Food Professionals, talks through boiling point and resulting evaporation – and loss of yield – of cream. Dylan H.
World-class chefs spent several days on the Penn College campus to impart their wisdom while they guided students in the production of the 25th Anniversary Visiting Chef Dinner, held April 7.
Penn College was well-represented at the recent Girls Exploring Tomorrow's Technology event at West Chester East High School, offering hands-on glimpses into "Taste of Sweet & Savory Technology" and "3-D Printing in Engineering and Industrial Design." Students, faculty and staff from the schools of Business & Hospitality and Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies, as well as the college'
A partnership with Guittard Chocolate Co., the oldest continuously family-owned and -operated chocolate-making business in the United States – and exclusive chocolate provider to the college's School of Business & Hospitality – is giving Penn College students and eye-opening and mouth-watering appreciation for quality. "I love their chocolate," said Natascha G.
Twenty-eight Pennsylvania College of Technology students have been selected by Levy Restaurants to help serve an expected crowd of more than 160,000 at the 2017 running of the storied Kentucky Derby on May 6. The Derby, an icon of Southern tradition, is the longest-running sporting event in the United States, first run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1875 before a crowd of 10,000.
In early April, Pennsylvania College of Technology will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Visiting Chef Series with the return, for the seventh time, of “Louisiana’s culinary ambassador to the world,” Chef John Folse, along with Folse’s renowned restaurant partner Chef Rick Tramonto, internationally heralded Pastry Chef Donald Wressell, and Chef Elaine Gardner, a 2011 Penn College graduate who
Cast members riotously play their parts ... ... and interact with dinner patrons enlisted to help get to the heart of the mystery. Cydney L. Ginter, a legal assistant/paralegal major from Altoona – assuming a "Princess Leia" persona for the event – takes part in a spirited "Rock, Paper, Scissors" duel.
Laura Tornichio-Vidal, northeast territory sales manager for Guittard Chocolate Co., makes a return trip to Penn College to conduct an educational chocolate tasting. Jahyah J. Barbour, a culinary arts technology student from Chambersburg, and Ashley R.
Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s hospitality-related majors recently showcased their skills on two noteworthy stages, one group working alongside industry leaders at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and the other interacting and providing demonstrations for professional-level peers at the Philadelphia National Candy, Gift and Gourmet Show.
Kelly, Logue and Kasler (from left), at home in the Herman & Luther's kitchen ... ... adroitly staking out turf from which to create their masterworks. From left, judges Daniele, Ditchfield and Nash enjoy the competition.
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