How do I prepare for culinary arts courses? ?

Take business courses, hotel and motel management or business management courses. A BIG part of culinary school, if you want to be a chef that is, has to do with the economics of running a kitchen. Now if your high school offers home economics kind of classes, certainly take them because the basics of cooking, how to use ingredients, and different cooking methods wont hurt either. But if they do not have classes like that, stick with the business classes. Remember, just about everything you think you know about cooking will become irrelevant when you get to culinary. But the more you know, the better prepared you will be to learn. Culinary is a tough program, but the rewards can be well worth it.

Good luck.

I would like to know some of the required reading or texts used in culinary arts school, and courses?

My husband and I are both planning to attend Culinary arts school.
We will not be going for a few years yet. We are older and have 3 young children.

However we would like to be able to familiarize ourselves with techniques and just enjoy reading them between now and then.

We understand that lists vary from school to school and also from year to year. Like I said we would just like some ideas of the Required literature.

As a Le Cordon Bleu culinary graduate hopefully i can shed some light on the situation.....we used the same book in our kitchens classes (the hands on cooking classes) for the entire time.....Professional Cooking fifth edition....by Wayne Gisslen....its a great book to learn from...just start at the beginning.....I'm sure if you are just looking to get a head start....if you found one of the older versions of this book....perhaps used....it wouldn't make much difference.....

in addition to our cooking classes (skills, soup stock sauce and starch production, meats, seafood, baking, advanced classical cuisine, advanced international cuisine, and garde manger) we took related courses such as.....sanitation, food service cost control, wines and spirits, purchasing, communication, food and beverage management.....and so on

hopefully this gives you two some kind of idea as far as what is ahead.....every culinary school is different.....but these are some of the things that i experienced in my education.

Good Luck to both of you!!

What colleges ,institutes , or universities have the best culinary arts programs or courses? What colleges ,institutes , or universities have the best culinary arts programs or courses?

The best culinary education happens in the kitchen.
Work in the field before you go and the experience will be much more rewarding.
The chefs I learned the most from were field chefs during the Vietnam war.

Are there any online courses in Culinary Arts that grants degrees or certifications that are transferrable? Are there any online courses in Culinary Arts that grants degrees or certifications that are transferrable?

How would you be graded on your culinary skills if no one could critique your work?
Get real. You can't do an online study course in culinary arts. Sorry, it would never fly

Where is the best culinary course for beginner who wants to get serious in culinary arts? Where is the best culinary course for beginner who wants to get serious in culinary arts?

There are two distinguished schools for Culinary Arts in the USA. The Culinary Institute of America in New York is the oldest, and the largest is the Culinary College of Johnson & Wales University (campuses in several cities).

Both CIA and JWU have extensive facilities and will teach every aspect of culinary and baking and pastry arts. In addition, they both give Bachelor's degrees in nutrition, food service management, beverage management, etc. So you can not only be trained to be a skilled chef, but you can also be trained to be a food service professional who knows every part of how to run a restaurant, catering business or other food service. They prepare you for a career, not just teach you to cook a few things.