International Cuisine

Specifications

  • CTE Sector: Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation
  • CTE Pathway: Food Service and Hospitality
  • Located at: El Rancho
  • Recommended Prerequisite: Culinary Arts I

Course Description

International Cuisine is the advanced course in a comprehensive standards-based culinary arts sequence. This course focuses on understanding the differences and commonalities we have with other cultures around the world. A common denominator in studying world cultures is cuisine. In studying the cuisines of a people or a region, we learn about a country’s geography and climate, traditions, taboos, and social normes, unique conditions caused by environment of a food supply, pressures on a population to trade, export, import, permit a closed or open society, and cultural values. Students will acquire a greater understanding of their world and the cultural diversity that exists in their own community.

Integrated throughout the course are standards for Career Ready Practice and Academic Content Standards which include: appropriate technical skills and academic knowledge; communication skills; career planning; applied technology; critical thinking and problem solving; personal health and financial literacy; citizenship, integrity, ethical leadership and effective management; work productively while integrating cultural and global competence; creativity and innovation; reliable research strategies, and environment, social and economic impacts of decisions.