



CAFÉ Talks Ep. 52 – The Foundations, Creativity & Innovation
Wednesday, 31 August 2022 08:17We study to understand, we practice to learn, and we produce to truly know. These are foundational steps in building competence and confidence, but they also unlock the possibility to create and innovate. Moving the business of food forward requires both a commitment to those critical foundations and the wherewithal to question, push forward, think creatively, and innovate a product or process that is new and exciting. It all begins with those foundations that we teach in our kitchens and classrooms – their importance can never be diminished.
Join our conversation with Chef Robert Dumas, the Food Science Innovation Coordinator at the University of Maine. From Louisiana kitchens to a tour of duty on a Navy submarine, through the Presidential White House Mess where he participated in servicing the staff and president during the Obama years, to his current position that helps to bring innovation in food to the economy of Maine, Dumas represents a perfect example of the importance of the foundations to the process of creativity and innovation. You won’t want to miss this interview.


CAFÉ Talks Ep. 51 – The New Normal – Intro to Another Year
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 08:54The times they are a changing. Culinary education and the industry it serves is facing incredible challenges, yet at the same time – fantastic opportunities. In our third year of communicating with chefs, cooks, culinary educators, students, and program administrators CAFÉ Talks Podcast will open the door to these opportunities. Interviews with people who have their thumb on the pulse of change will offer their thoughts on where the industry of food and the provisioners of culinary education are headed. Listen in to this episode as I outline what those changes will likely entail.

CAFÉ Update August 15, 2022
Monday, 15 August 2022 11:11
August 2022 Issue
Monday, 08 August 2022 15:01Gold Medal Classroom:
The official ezine for CAFE | August issue

Tri-County Career Center Instructor Kathryn Mosher Earns 2022 Secondary Educator of the Year Award
Monday, 08 August 2022 14:26Life Learning Academy’s Derreck Brown Earns Secondary Educator of the Year Honorable Mention Award
Monday, 08 August 2022 14:23