Culinary Arts Education - First Step

The first step to getting a great [culinary arts education] is researching what it will take to have a fulfilling culinary arts career.

You may like to cook or do great presentations or art designs on the foods that you prepare and present, but is that alone enough to justify a career in culinary arts?

A great culinary arts education demands attention to detail up front. For example, are you willing to put in the long hours necessary standing on your feet in an oftentimes overwhelmingly busy environment with lots of non-stop activity, boiling pots, hot stoves, banging pots and pans, and people screaming orders all around you? If you become a top chef in an exclusive restaurant, you will very likely be in charge of a crew of people where you will be giving orders, organizing schedules, coordinating every event that happens in the kitchen, along with preparing your outstanding, unique creations. The pressure will be great. Can you handle this first step? If you can, read on for the second step in getting a great culinary arts education.