Posts Tagged ‘culinary training’
I recently moved to a new city and started running with a new crowd of friends. A handful of them go to a “culinary training institute” downtown. They all seem like nice, down to earth people, but I’m worried about offending them.
I’ve been able to watch my mouth so far, but I get a little “simple-tongued” after drinking a little and a couple of times I almost let phrases like “culinary cooking schools” and “cooking schools” slip instead “culinary arts” and the like. Like I said, they don’t seem like the type to get offended over a little lingual gaffe, but I don’t like to offend people.
I guess I could just keep watching my mouth, but I can’t help but wondering if “cooking school” and similar variations are offensive to people in the culinary world.
You know, I work for a magazine and people ask me about journalism school. It sounds a little simpler than the effort my degree entailed, but I’m not insulted. Maybe a better example is that I work on my MFA in creative writing part time, and people refer to it as writing school. Now, that really simplifies what I am doing, but it seems to be acceptable.
They need to offer classes for these types of social issues.
Tags: cooking schools, culinary cooking schools, culinary training, MFA