At the beginning of the school year, the culinary team at the Herndon Career
Center in the Raytown School District near Kansas City set a goal to be the
best team in the United States. In fact, members of the team put post-it notes on
their bathroom mirrors that said first in the nation. This spring they achieved
that goal, taking first place out of 48 teams in the national ProStart
invitational culinary arts competition. Chef and culinary arts instructor Mike
Chrowstowski says the team has been amazing to coach and mentor. "You know
this team for me was, it was awesome. I mean this team, you know, I mean they
came in with with goals. To learn how to cook, learn some craft,
and some skills of how to be successful in the kitchen and I think you know they
I found little niches that they were good at and I tried to exploit that for
all it was worth. And from there they just grew and so when teams came about
and the team you know you're like you're on a culinary team you could see like
wow!" Team member and Raytown South High School student Levi Barkley says the
national competition was challenging. "The stress was something I definitely was
expecting and there was a lot of it but it was really well organized it was a
lot of fun, it was really cool to see other teams from all around the country,
and also with Japan and Germany were there. It was really great to see the
different food that everyone brought." Students in Herndon's culinary arts
program are juniors and seniors who meet three hours a day five days a week.
Besides classwork, the students have extensive hands-on experience in a
professional kitchen Chrowstowski says the students must pass a safety and
sanitation test before actually beginning their instruction on cooking
methods. "And we try to do as high level as we possibly can so we may start to
unit out with a real simple recipe with the lecture, a demo of how to do it
maybe some videos that they can go home and watch to kind of get another chef's
perspective, guest speakers come in they give their perspective as well. And then
we just hopefully by the end of the unit you know we're doing some really cool
stuff and we're really stretching and pushing
and hitting goals that they didn't know that they could reach with which is
always really fun to grow and see and watch them evolve." Members of the
national championship team say there's a lot more to becoming a chef than they
imagined when they started the program. "Such as like different techniques on how
to cook meat or how to use a saute pan the right way
just times and temps and how to control your food and handle what you're cooking."
"I've learned a lot of things about the industry, a lot. One major thing I've
learned it's not as easy as it looks. Cooking looks easy there's a lot of
things you got to know just to make a simple plate." While the first year of the
program focuses on learning cooking skills the second year includes
instruction on restaurant management honestly a chef should be able to cook
but can you manage your numbers can you work on your labor can you formulate a
food cost you know how to calculate a food cost can you write you know do a
recipe that could train your whole entire kitchen staff so it's the same
day after day so we spend a lot of time on that over the year they build a
business plan Rostow ski says he eventually lets the students get
creative now you know I mean you know a lot of the beginning of the year is you
know let's stick to the recipe you know prove to me that you can saute a chicken
breasts right not once but maybe five times and then show me that you can make
a sauce to go with and then let's stay in that box but eventually I'm gonna
give you the creative freedom because you've proved to me that you can start
to go outside of that box a little bit and think about you know how can I work
with some of the you know the fancy white powders to you know make you know
raspberry caviar or something you know you have to prove to me that you can
display a cooking method before you know we go and start getting into more
expensive ingredients and you know a lot of times students just rise to that
occasion and you know you start to see some really amazing pretty sweet dishes
coming out of the kitchen you're like wow I get to taste this I really have a
hard job don't by finishing first in the national competition team members were
awarded a total of 223 thousand dollars in scholarships to be used to continue
their education in the restaurant and food service industry so what was the
menu the students prepared in order to win the national championship it
featured a buttered poached Maine lobster and saffron couscous appetizer
pinenut tenderloin paired with truffled Yukon potato and vegetable entree and a
raspberry dark chocolate bavarian for dessert Christou ski says some alumni of
the program work in the best restaurants in the world
while others have taken a different career path you know I have other
students that have decided that you know being a chef is really fun it was nice
but I want to see where this Avenue is going to take me so they jump into food
science and milling science and you know they're just doing great things and you
know they're not spending 15 hours in a kitchen you know they're spending 1213
hours in a lab talking about stuff that's gonna really keep us safe and and
it's just a huge I mean it's a good science is exploding right now preparing
students for careers and continuing education in a growing industry one more
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