Culinary Arts

Culinary arts represent many diverse cultures through food. This can be cooking, baking, preparing food, and more. Cooking is a great way to spend time with your family, get involved with your community, learn about different cuisines, and most importantly, have fun!

How Can I Learn?

Culinary arts are all about trial and error. It helps to learn some fundamentals beforehand, such as knife safety, oven safety, and the uses of basic ingredients (such as sugar, flour, oil, baking powder, etc.). Anyone can learn to cook or bake, even just something simple! Here are some ways to start:

1. Follow an easy recipe online for a popular food such as pasta or cookies. Recipes give simple, step-by-step instructions, so they are great for beginners!


2. Have a family member teach you one of their favorite recipes. You can learn to cook while bonding with family!


3. As you improve your culinary skills, you can take online classes with professionals to master your technnique.


4. Branch out to different cuisines from around the world and try to make more challenging foods. Maybe you have a favorite dessert such as mochi, but it's a little hard to make. Give it a try!


5. As you become more familiar with a dish or its ingredients, you can create brand new ways of preparing it and even invent your own unique signature dish. You'll have fun and excersise your creativity!