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Wisconsin's Fresh Ingredients Lure Master Chefs and Cooking School Students

By Joe Taylor Jr.
joe.taylor@culinaryartsschoolreview.com
Culinary Arts School Review Columnist

Wisconsin’s European, Asian, and Native American cultures blend with its abundant agricultural trade for a unique focus on hearty, rich, flavorful food. With over five and a half million residents that love to eat, Wisconsin boasts cooking schools that focus on creating crowd pleasing meals.

Depending on your personal lifestyle, you might take cooking classes in the big city experience of Milwaukee or in the college town atmosphere of Madison. Both cities host a variety of chef schools that honor the state’s deep love for good food. Cooking schools host frequent public classes at arenas and hotels.

Wisconsin Cooking Schools Celebrate Cultural Heritage

Wisconsin’s residents love to mix traditional European fare like cheese and sausage with Native American frybread and even Hmong chicken, a favorite among recent Chinese immigrants. In fact, many of Wisconsin’s chef schools use the state’s multicultural heritage as a backdrop for cooking classes on fusion cuisine.

While some Americans consider Wisconsin to be an unusual place to enroll in a chef school, cooking classes there can prepare you well for your career as a chef. Online chef schools can even offer you the opportunity to live and work on a remote farm, where you can perfect your skills using fresh ingredients.

Meanwhile, chefs from around the world frequently visit Wisconsin’s cooking schools. Not only do they impart their knowledge during cooking classes, they love to sample some of the finest cheeses and fresh fish in North America. Whether you already live in Wisconsin or you decide to enroll in a chef school there, you’ll enjoy a rich, if not decadent, learning experience.

Sources:

Green Bay Press Gazette
Madison Commons
Taste of Wisconsin
Wikipedia

About the Author

Joe Taylor Jr. coaches musicians, entrepreneurs, and other adults that want to shift their careers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Ithaca College.

Posted on July 24, 2006 at 01:49 PM