Culinary Institute

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Does your daughter enjoy eating a wide range of food and cuisines at this time?

It might take awhile but this is very important for any aspiring chef so that they demonstrate real culinary passion, skill and creativity by understanding first taste, cooking properties of many types of fruits, veggies, meats, etc. --both common and unusual to North America.

It is interesting to watch the different chef reality contests on foodnetwork tv. Especially when they are faced with an ingredient that they've never eaten before, much less cooked with it.

I would argue heavily, that to invent/create your own quality, tasty fusion Asian-Western dishes cannot be done well unless one understands and has tried cooking for awhile at least one of the traditional Asian cuisines. Plus understanding French cooking technique. Otherwise one is just throwing together a dish that lacks soul /spark and proper integration of taste and ingredients.