One of the biggest decisions aspiring cooks face before stepping foot in a professional kitchen is whether to pursue a culinary diploma or a full-blown culinary degree. Both paths can lead to a rewarding career in culinary arts, but the two differ greatly in time, cost, depth of curriculum and opportunities. If you’re trying to...
Gurugram is not where most aspiring chefs in Delhi NCR think to look for serious culinary training. That oversight is costing them. By default, meaningful culinary education in NCR region is presumed to be available in South Delhi, Noida or central Delhi – areas with established reputations and visible institutional presence. This conversation often leaves...
Here’s a question to sit with before you sign up for any culinary arts course: What kind of chef does the market really need at this moment? The restaurant scene has come a long way in the last decade. Hotels are operating multi-concept kitchens. On any given weekend, independent restaurants are welcoming guests from 40...
You are standing in your kitchen. You see a recipe that needs eggs. You think to yourself. There must be another way to do this. Maybe you are baking for someone in your family who has restrictions. Maybe you are baking for people who do not eat meat. Maybe you just want to learn how...
Let’s face it. When we first tried making macarons, they did not turn out right. Most of us ended up with a sad meringue pancake. It did not look like the pastel domes we saw on Instagram. You are not the one who had this problem. The good news is, you can still learn to...
Gurugram has always been a city that moves fast. New towers go up before the old ones fill. Restaurants open, go viral on a food reel, and get a waiting list before the signage is even dry. But something different has been happening in its kitchens over the last year or so, something less about...
Go to Kyani & Co on Jagannath Shankar Seth Road before 9 am on any weekday. Watch what happens. The mawa cake at Kyani & Co is gone by 10 am most days. Not because they ran out of ingredients. Because someone’s grandfather has been coming since before their father was born and he gets...
To understand Artisan Bread Recipes, you have to first stop thinking like a cook and start thinking like a biologist. In a commercial factory, bread is a dead product of mechanical speed. But in the world of the true artisan, bread is a living, breathing ecosystem. It is a slow-motion chemical interaction between wild microbes,...
To truly understand Viennoiserie, you have to stop thinking like a baker and start thinking like a blacksmith. In a high-end kitchen, we don’t just “mix” dough; we temper it. We manipulate fat and gluten under strict thermal conditions to create a structural marvel that shouldn’t, by the laws of physics, stay upright. While a...
The first time you stand in front of a three-tier wedding cake, you aren’t thinking about sugar; you’re thinking about gravity. There is a terrifying, quiet tension in a pastry kitchen when the “final stack” happens. If you’ve ever watched a chef like Amaury Guichon or the instructors at APCA India, you see a level...
