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Posted at September 26, 2012, 6:29 pm:

I am looking to keep my students engaged in Culinary Arts over the summer. One idea I have been kicking around for some time is to get a book in their hands. I have gone back and forth over a fiction book that has food/cooking themese throughout or using one of the food essay-style books out there. Thus far, I have narrowed it down to If you can Stand the Heat.



Any other ideas? Remember... they are high school age, so the content has to be 'sensitive.'

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Replies:

Jim what about Jacque Pepins book.

you might wanna consider "Letters to a young chef" by Daniel...

Jacques Pepins biography is an absolute awesome read.

I have always been a fan of Food in history by Reay Tannahill.

I agree with Chrose, excellent culinary history.

Can't go wrong with Michael Ruhlmann and Anthony Bourdain.

Absolutely make them read "Down and Out in Paris and London"...

Well, I am going with Letters to a Young Chef.

Jim, What a GREAT assignment! It sounds both fun and useful.

I teach in a technical high school (formerly known as a vocational hig...

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