ND Food Services - Culinary Education Programs

Culinary Education Programs

COOKING CLASSES - HANDS-ON

If you like the heat, come into our kitchen. Each semester we will hold hands-on, interactive cooking classes for Notre Dame students.

The culinary classes for Fall 2009 will feature:

How to Plan, Purchase, and Prepare a
Healthy Sustainable Meal for Two

One of the most powerful ways we can affect our environment and our personal wellness – for better or worse is the act of eating. People eat every day. What we choose to put on our plates and in our mouths can either help our ecosystem around us or hurt it, as well as, the food that you choose to eat, can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.

Notre Dame Food Services approaches sustainable foods and healthy eating as an opportunity to combine responsible stewardship and personal wellness with pleasure.

Sustainable Foods – following practices and management techniques that take no more food resources from the world than they put back. To meet the food needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Healthy “Lite Meal” – Notre Dame Food Services during the summer of 2009 has worked diligently to design “Lite” meal offerings in our residence dining rooms as well as in our retail and catering operations. Our definition of “Lite” is a meal that has 500 calories or less, with 10 grams of fat or less and 1000 milligrams of sodium or less.

Please sign up for this educational hands on cooking class and join Chef Miller and Chef Charu for an evening of fun learning and healthy, sustainable eating.
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Menu

Tossed Salad Greens with Fresh Herbs and Grape Tomatoes Topped with Lemon Citrus Vinaigrette

Shallow Poached Halibut with a Carrot Ginger Coulis,
Grilled Vegetables, & Steamed Rice

Cinnamon Apples in Philo Purses

We will hold six (6) classes each semester with a class size of twelve (12) students in each class. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM. If this is a dorm activity, we will require a full class of attendees.

The dates for this semester’s classes are:

September 9, 2009
September 23, 2009
October 7, 2009
October 28, 2009
November 11, 2009
December 2, 2009

The classes will be held in the Notre Dame Food Services Test Kitchen and will be conducted by Notre Dame Food Services Executive Chef, Don Miller.

To enroll for a class, please contact the Notre Dame Food Services administration office at 631-7253 or email ccoleman@nd.edu. Registrations close for each class on Monday of the week of the class. Classes will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

There will be no charge to Notre Dame students for these Notre Dame Food Services Culinary Classes.