Taking the Heat: An Inside Look at Culinary School

Most people have a romantic if not sentimental view of the culinary world —a myth fostered by bestselling fiction and Hollywood blockbusters. Many of us grow up in the kitchen around our mothers or grandmothers shelling peas and eventually cooking alongside them. Although this probably played its part, Rakhi Bhandari says her interest in good food and cooking came from ‘a childhood of starvation’ at a boarding school in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Time for Culinary School?

Since the economic downturn in 2008, many professionals are switching their career paths from white-collar positions in finance, business, engineering, and medicine, to enter the food and beverage industries.