Culinary Arts Student Testimonial

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it's for people who really have a

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general interest in culinary arts who

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have a general interest in food

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and aren't really sure where they want

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to go what direction they want to go in

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this really allows you to transform your

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interest and your passion

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and turn it into a career you learn so

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many different techniques

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skills it's really incredible to learn

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how many different ways you can prepare

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and present

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food so anyone who has a general

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interest in culinary arts this is the

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program for you

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my name is owen murphy i'm a 12th grade

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student at the cte

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culinary arts baking and pastry program

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here at oneida herkimer madison boces

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it's really wonderful because i took

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this interest in culinary arts that i

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had from

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you know a few years ago and i never

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really knew that it could be this

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glamorous career i'm allowed to

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you know learn different techniques

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learn different cooking temperatures

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nice skills there's so much that we

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learn in this program

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and it transforms a very broad interest

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in culinary arts

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and really transforms it into a career

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i've learned so much

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from these past two years than i ever

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thought i could have learned anywhere

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else it almost feels like i went to a

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professional

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college and really kick start your way

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into the you know

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right into the work industry

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compared to a normal high school

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experience this program

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allows you to take what you like doing

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outside of school

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and get high school credit for it so if

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you like to cook at home rather than

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sitting in a history class or a social

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studies class

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you're allowed to take your interest and

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your passion and you're able to do that

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for school credit so to be able

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to do what you love for school is really

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incredible so

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comparing that to a normal everyday

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school that some students might find

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you know not so interesting it's not

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what they really love

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this is what if you love cooking this is

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a program for you get to do it

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during high school

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this is definitely a better fit for me

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than normal high school going half day

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here

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is giving me such a huge advantage in

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kickstart once i get started in college

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this allows me to know have prior

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background information of food

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rather than you know doing stuff that i

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might not use later on in my life this

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the stuff that i'm learning in this

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class i will use for the rest of my life

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you know everybody cooks at home

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but you're allowed to see the background

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of where food came from you're allowed

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to see

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skills knife techniques all kinds of

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stuff

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the instructors are really really

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wonderful people chef cordo

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is so so innovative and really tells you

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from her point of view

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how culinary arts you know affected her

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you know she started from a chef and

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then transformed into a teacher

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first hand she's teaching you everything

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that she's learned throughout the years

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and you're allowed to learn that stuff

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and do it her way and she's really

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really phenomenal

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allows you to do things your way you

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know gives you the opportunity to

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create and prepare your own dishes and

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we'll really teach you just about

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everything you need to know

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starting out

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there's no better way to spend your high

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school years

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than to coming in in a hands-on

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environment cooking

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getting to learn different techniques

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you know and

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more than that we usually get the

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opportunity

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to internship at various restaurants so

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you're able to actually work in a

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restaurant environment

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and really firsthand experience how it's

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going to be if you decide to be a cooker

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chef

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later on in life so i would say go for

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it i would say there's no

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better career path to than for a

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hands-on environment than culinary arts

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and this really allows you to

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start

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after culinary arts program here at

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boces i am planning on going to johnson

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wales university in providence rhode

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island

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had i not taken this program that is

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definitely not the route i would have

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gone down

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various college professors come in and

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do demonstrations and it allows me to

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realize

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wow this is really really incredible

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opportunity to you know go right into

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college and learn more i've learned so

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much

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you know from this program and going to

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college is a route i want to go down to

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expand my knowledge even further

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if you'd like to learn more about

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culinary arts please talk to your school

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counselor