| Kosher culinary cooking is a unique way of food | | | | Brooklyn. It just happens to be a kosher cooking school |
| preparation and serving that has been passed down | | | | and has already had many students in attendance. |
| throughout the centuries by people of the Jewish race. | | | | The Center for Kosher Culinary (CKCA) is less than a |
| Certain rules on how to keep kosher are found in the | | | | year old and was founded by Dr. Elka Pinson in July |
| guidelines that were first learned by the Jewish people | | | | 2008. The Center for Kosher Culinary is a professional |
| after their exodus from Egypt, back in the time of | | | | culinary arts school that offers students courses in |
| Moses. Observant Jews still follow these food | | | | preparing kosher foods. It is the only career cooking |
| preparation guidelines today. For a food to be | | | | school of its kind in the United States. All faculty |
| considered authentically kosher, a rabbi will have | | | | members are familiar with kosher cooking, are |
| inspected it and given his stamp of approval. All meats | | | | intimately familiar the techniques that they teach in |
| are slaughtered in a way that the blood is drained, | | | | kosher food preparation as well as all ingredients used |
| rather than being strangled. | | | | for the course are strictly kosher. |
| All vegetables are inspected for bugs or insects. All | | | | The teaching on how to use kosher culinary |
| dairy foods are kept separate from the meat of an | | | | techniques and guidelines is a unique area of skill that is |
| animal. This necessitates the use of two kitchens and | | | | has long been missing in the career culinary school |
| separate plates. All fish must have fins to be | | | | courses offered in America. This field is not offered in |
| considered clean and kosher. No unclean animals or | | | | even the most prestigious cooking schools here in the |
| sea food is used. These are but a few of the kosher | | | | United States. At the CKCA, kosher culinary cooking |
| food guidelines. | | | | classes are taught in 6 week full time sessions or 12 |
| Jewish parents are quite capable of passing down | | | | week sessions if you are only able to attend classes |
| theses rules to their children and indeed they have | | | | part time. There are 8 sessions of kosher culinary |
| done so for thousands of years. That is why there are | | | | cooking classes offered each year. |
| still foods that can be bought that are certifiably | | | | The course concentrates on how to use kosher |
| kosher. Because there is a growing interest and need | | | | culinary cooking skills when baking or making pastries, |
| for authentic kosher restaurants in the Jewish | | | | Far Eastern dishes, French cuisine, Italian kosher |
| communities, the interest in kosher culinary cooking has | | | | cooking and healthy vegetarian dishes. The art of how |
| grown. There are a few kosher cooking classes | | | | to select and choose kosher wines to serve along |
| available, but if you would like to get a degree in | | | | with these dishes is also learned by the students at |
| kosher culinary cooking to become a professional chef, | | | | CKCA. You can find out more about this school by |
| you had to go to Israel to take the courses. That is until | | | | going to their website. |
| now. A new career cooking school has opened up in | | | | |