The team that taught you how to impress your dinner guests with delicious menus and savvy kitchen skills will soon take your cooking one step further. On June 21st The Dirty Apron Cooking School will launch Gourmet Bootcamp, the school’s first class series covering kitchen fundamentals. The weeklong program that will run throughout the summer and fall months is designed to teach the tricks of the trade, and students are guaranteed to leave with more than a few industry tricks under their toque.
Led by industry veteran and professional instructor Walter Messiah, Gourmet Bootcamp curriculum will focus on kitchen fundamentals and building a culinary foundation. Spread over the course of five days, instruction will begin with the basics of crafting stocks and sauces and will then move on to essential knife skills, meat and butchery, preparing and cleaning fish and shellfish, working with grains and vegetables, and the art of desserts and pastries. On the final day of the course, students will be tested with a Black Box style challenge that will have them crafting a three-course menu from a box of mystery ingredients.
Space will be limited to an intimate class of just 16 students and will run from 9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday throughout the summer and early fall. Cost for instruction is $975.00 all-inclusive and includes meals throughout each day. For a complete schedule of daily class activities and menu, please visit the website: www.dirtyapron.com/classes
About the School
The Dirty Apron Cooking School is Vancouver’s newest, most exciting culinary playground. Born with the intention of creating an environment for novices, foodies, and aspiring chefs to learn the tricks of the trade, The Dirty Apron Cooking School offers a selection of hands-on classes that vary from creating regional classics to understanding ingredient-driven basics and executing essential knife skills. For more information please visit: www.dirtyapron.com.
