The Culinary Arts Edition of Sous Chef 7 is a software-based course of study designed to facilitate a full culinary arts or food service program at the high school and post-secondary level. Culinary Arts (CA) is a comprehensive curriculum that is objective driven and specifically designed to prepare students for the workforce by developing their skills and enhancing their techniques. This version of the Sous Chef contains over 1600 pages of content and 340 detailed instructional videos organized in 18 chapters. Chapters include: Intro to Hospitality; Knife Skills and Nutrition; Stocks, Sauces and Soups; Cooking Techniques; Meat, Fish and Poultry; Dairy, Breakfast and Pasta; Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts; Garde Manger, Herbs and Spices; Breads and Doughs; Pastry and Baking; Front of the House Operations; Web Resources. Each chapter includes competencies and terminology.
Culinary Arts (CA) integrates a whopping 24 hours of video content into the lessons. The goal is to make teachers more effective, students more productive, and to improve the overall learning experience by integrating technology and encouraging interactivity.
This powerful tool includes professional instruction on nearly every aspect of being a chef, from basic knife cuts to advanced meat fabrication. Replace your old textbooks and capture your students' attention! The Sous Chef is designed to be your personal teaching assistant by streamlining your course and aligning your objectives to state and national standards. Teachers can now add their own materials and edit content. The Sous Chef can be used as a supplement to or a replacement for the textbook you are currently using. It contains textual information and photos presented in a standard “book” format. These pages can be printed for classroom handouts, viewed on monitors, or used with a projector as slides.
In addition to the textual pages, the program contains technique videos which give step-by-step instructions. They show basic and advanced kitchen techniques for everything from butchering a chicken to techniques for final plate presentation.
The Sous Chef combines text, photos, charts, diagrams, and video to be your best teaching assistant. With the searchable database, you can find the specific information or techniques you need instantly at your fingertips.
Additional information: The Sous Chef program is NOT student interactive. Teachers can now edit content and import their own materials, including PowerPoint presentations.
The Sous Chef program is PC-compatible (It will not run on a MAC) and requires Windows 2000 or higher. The additional workstations contain exactly the same content as the single-station program. Teacher materials are password protected to eliminate student access. You can print unlimited quantities of text and photos/illustration/diagrams for student use. Pages on your computer screen can be projected for classroom viewing. Each workstation will require approximately 26 gigabits of hard drive. The Student Version includes all the written and photographic content of the program except the videos and teacher materials. Each page of the student version is printable. The student version is not loaded onto the computer’s hard drive. It runs from the original CD-ROM.
This pricing is for installation on one computer. Site licensing is available. Call VMS (1-800-343-6430) for details.