HOSPITALITY
Eating is a necessity but cooking is an art. Our students learn skills they will use for life. In Year 7 and 8 our ten week courses offer students the opportunity to work through a daily menu of breakfast, lunch and dinner. With the amount of eggs we go through experimenting with omelettes, we hope there are many spoilt Mums and Dads being served breakfast in bed! In Year 9 we get more creative and look at the art of cake and pastry making. Lemon Meringue Pie, Apple Turnovers and Mrs Cartwright’s Family Sponge recipe are put to the test. We also covered healthy fast food with students learning to cook fast food favourites from scratch, using fresh ingredients and less processed foods.
DELICIOUS DISHES We get serious in Year 10, with an introduction to Hospitality. More advanced recipes are used and we travel the world through our international culinary portfolio. Thai Beef Salad, Butter Chicken, Nasi Goreng and Pasta are always popular.
This course also looks at the art of entertaining and eating out with an emphasis on the formal menu. It culminates in a very popular excursion to Challenger TAFE’s training restaurant for a three course lunch where they can experience first hand what has been learnt in the classroom. The students are sometimes lucky enough to be invited for a tour behind the scenes as well. Finally, to our upper school Hospitality students. As always their commitment this year to the course has been outstanding.
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We took possession earlier in the year of “Big Red” our portable Coffee Machine. This has allowed the students to practice their Barista skills at a number of venues and functions around the College. Apart from this you can find our students working daily in the ECCspresso coffee shop; in class with their heads down learning about food safety and hygiene and preparing food for over 1000 people at Graduation. Just follow the laughter to the cooking rooms where the teamwork and camaraderie that the students have displayed in our area continues to remind us of the reason why we find our profession so rewarding. Mrs Deborah Barraclough Director of Home Economics
