Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
​Angela Lee: Cooking and Restaurant Classes                            Spring 2023

Instructor: Angela Lee
Contact: angela@whitehorsefarmcatering.com
Website: www.whitehorsefarmcatering.com
Location: White Horse Farm Catering, 4840 Territorial Road, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Format: In-person
Grades: 8-12
Masks:

​Classes begin the week of Jan. 9

Learn to Cook with a Professional Chef 
Mondays, 11am-1pm, President's Day (Feb. 19) moved to Tuesday if necessary

A hands-on cooking experience with a professional Chef to learn the basic tools, techniques and terms used during cooking. You will learn local health codes, proper food handling, and food storage. You will learn and utilize recipe development and its parts. You will learn the nine cooking techniques and measuring units and put them to use. You will discuss proper cooking temperature and its importance. Collectively you will cook a planned meal and  have a fun interactive hands-on cooking experience. Your end of class project  will be to create your own recipe and present it to the classroom.
Syllabus

Learn What It Takes to Open a Restaurant
Tuesdays, 3:30-5:30pm

Do you love to cook? Do you love hospitality? Do you hope to open a restaurant one day?  Do you want to know what it takes and how to go about it? This course is for teens how love  food and hospitality. We will learn how to create a restaurant business plan by working  through your restaurant ideas and putting it to pen and paper. Each student will choose  their own restaurant concept, create a menu, learn food cost, do competitive analysis,  choose a location, layout the restaurant on paper, learn health department requirements,  list equipment needs and cost, and eventually bind this all together to a full plan to present.
​Syllabus

*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
 Teacher of Record:  Peres Sambu