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 Arts I

Registration Fee: $250
(Book required)

This course is designed to prepare students for entry level positions in the exciting world of Culinary Arts and is a pre-requisite to Culinary II. Students will learn Food Safety, Sanitation, Menu and Nutrition, Knife Skills, Moist and Dry Heat Cooking Principles, Seasoning and Flavoring, Breakfast and Egg Cookery, Stocks and Soups, Sauces, Salads, Salad Dressings and Sandwiches.

061210 T/Th 6-9pm 8/21-11/8 Lloyd VHS/Kitchen

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