Vista Adult School - Culinary Arts | Vista Adult School

Professional Culinary Arts Program

Do you have a passion for working with food like no one else? Do you crave an opportunity in the culinary, restaurant, or hospitality industry? Well, here is the recipe for success—a career in Culinary Arts! Our program is designed to prepare students for exciting careers in one of San Diego County's most in demand industries –Culinary and Hospitality!

Opportunities include Chef, Prep Cook, Kitchen Manger, Hospital Food Services, Wait Staff, and much more. We offer a fun, exhilarating, and intense program where students have the opportunity to learn not only the fundamentals of cooking but more advanced techniques as well. Our multi-level program combines preparation, food safety, and business management skills, and it is taught by experienced chefs.

Program is located in the state of the art Industrial Kitchen at Vista High School.
Looking for a one day class? Check out our Community Ed Cooking Classes.

Culinary II

Registration Fee: $250 (Book required.)

This course is designed to prepare students for entry level positions in the exciting world of Culinary Arts. Culinary I is a pre requisite to this course. Students will learn the fundamentals of cooking Meat, Poultry, Fish and Shellfish, Vegetables, Starches, along with Food Presentation. Required textbook: Professional Cooking 8th edition Wayne Gisslen.

061211 T/Th 6 - 9 pm 3/20-6/14 Lloyd VHS/Kitchen

Home Baking for Profit

Registration Fee: $100

Everyone tells you "you really should sell your baked goods..." but you haven't a clue how to start. Join us as we show you the how to's of starting your own home based baking business. Whether you're interested in selling at the farmer's market, or trying to get your product into the marketplace this is the class that will help you start it all. Bring a notebook and pen and we'll put you on the path to having your own food based business.

061231 M/W 6 - 9 pm 3/19-5/2 Lloyd Sunset/302

How to Start a Catering Business

Registration Fee: $100 (Book required.)

You love food, you love parties and you just know you can do a better job at catering a party than some. Now is your chance to learn about the world of catering. This 6 week program will teach you the fundamentals of catering: event planning, food cost management, menu planning, contracts, table display, food presentation and so much more in this lecture and hands on program. There is no cooking as we assume you already know how to cook! Required textbook: How to Start a Home Based Catering Business, sixth edition by Denise Vivaldo.

061232 M/W 6 - 9 pm 5/7-6/13 Lloyd Sunset/302

ServSafe Training and Certification

Exam Registration Fee: $150

ServSafe is a mandated certification program geared towards achieving the highest level of training and expertise in the food industry for food managers, caters and those who run food based businesses. The ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification is nationally recognized and accredited. ServSafe's Food Protection Manager Certification is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - Conference for Food Protection (CFP).

061215 M 9 am - 4 pm 4/30 Lloyd Sunset/302

Teacher Bio

Executive Chef Arleen Lloyd has been trained under notable chefs such as Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Paul Prudhomme, Nancy Silverton, along with several European chefs with Michelin star credentials, Arleen’s culinary range includes the cuisines of many cultures, as well as the fine art of baking, patisserie and the chocolate arts.

Arleen’s experience touches all sides of the industry. She owned a catering company with retail and wholesale divisions in Miami, FL, where she catered extravagant events for corporate clients and supplied restaurants with specialty baked goods. She has cooked and taught throughout the world and her travels are always an exploration into the nuances of cultural cooking; the how, the why and the joy of sharing local food.

She is a cookbook author, business consultant and has served on an advisory board for Kraft Foods developing new products for the marketplace.

Testimonial

I have taken Culinary 1 and Professional Baking and have learned so much from Chef Arleen. She explains techniques and needed skills. Chef demonstrates the proper way to cook and bake great foods. If you love to learn, do, and eat, then the culinary and baking classes are for you!

Trenna W, Culinary Student