October 2025 Issue
Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | October 2025 issue
FEATURES:
Spaghetti beyond meatballs: A surprising ingredient across day and menu parts. Teaching how to incorporate spaghetti into breakfast, dessert and global applications helps students more-fully appreciate this loved pasta.
Build a stronger program through community partnerships. Connect future culinarians to the world they will one day feed.
CAFÉ blows into the Windy City for 2026 conference. Chicago’s Kendall College hosts the 2026 CAFÉ conference and Best Practice session submissions are now open.
FUTURE THINKING IN EDUCATION:
It’s all about a team: The greatest environment a teacher can create is one of collaboration that allows the team to build and find a way to win.
CHEF PROFILE:
Rebecca Peizer, CEC, CHE
Owner
All Things Culinary LLC
BREAKING NEWS:
IPC opens the call for innovative potato recipes. Enter to win a $1,000 honorarium and participate in IPC’s 2026 national advertising campaign
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES FROM THE GMC ARCHIVES:
Updating bread making from seed to slice. Changing yeast varieties and grain types takes an age-old process into the modern world.
Teaching cake decorating during Halloween. Turning a devilishly tricky topic into a tantalizing treat.
Frozen raspberries add flavorful pop and brightness to baked items. Time-saving frozen raspberries go from freezer to application and help build flavorful masterpieces.
Exploring how to taste. Using both taste and memory recall creates a powerful teaching method for developing knowledge of flavors and textures.