Project Schedule
General Information:
The first few days and the last day will be atypical. Typically, we will have class sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning and groups will alternate cooking either on Tuesday or Thursday. We will be filling in the calendar as the course progresses.
Locations:
Classes: Olin 201
Cooking: Kitchen in St. James United Methodist Church
General Class Calendar:
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, November 29 |
11:00 Mandatory Meeting in Olin 201: We will discuss the nature of the class, deal with release forms, and have our first taste-test. |
| Tuesday, December 12 |
Deadline for returning off-campus release forms! |
| Thursday, January 5 |
Interim Begins
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| Friday, January 6 |
Assignment: Create your first blog entry & email or bring URL for blog to class Recommended Reading in Resources |
| Monday, January 9 |
Required Reading: Chapter 1 in Cheese Book (See Resources) Recommended reading in Wikipedia: FAT TOM; Allergies: 1, 2.1; Food Intolerance: 1, 2, 3, ...; Colloid:1,2; Milk:8; Cheese:3; |
| Tuesday, January 10 |
Cooking Off Campus: Cookies Read your recipes carefully! Notes on cookie chemistry |
| Wednesday, January 11 |
Food photography Knife Skills Cooking for Thursday Terms |
| Thursday, January 12 |
Cooking Off Campus: Cooking with Chocolate Menu in Resources |
| Friday, January 13 |
Physiology of Taste Read: Flavor Wheels of the World |
| Monday, January 16 |
Four Basic Tastes Recipe Writing Coffee Cupping For more on Coffee, visit the CIA/Starbucks pages |
| Tuesday, January 17 |
Cooking Off Campus: Stocks, Chicken Menu to be added to student blogs |
| Wednesday, January 18 |
Salt tasting Discuss Cooking on Tuesday, Menu for Thursday |
| Thursday, January 19 |
Cooking Off Campus: Cooking with Cheese Menu in Resources |
| Friday, January 20 |
Sour Vinegars MIracle Fruit |
| Monday, January 23 |
Umami & MSG Menus Egg Cookery Olives & Olive Oils |
| Tuesday, January 24 |
Cooking Off Campus: Egg Cookery |
| Wednesday, January 25 |
Cinnamon Tasting Food Interaction Menues |
| Thursday, January 26 |
Cooking Off Campus: Indian Cuisine |
| Friday, January 27 |
Student Presentations Last Cheese tasting |
| Monday, January 30 |
Student Presentation |
| Tuesday, January 31 |
Cooking Off Campus: Southern Cuisine |
| Wednesday, February 1 |
Student Presentation Class wrapup |
Chocolate Tasting Schedule
For those of you that get excited about chocolate, here is a tentative tasting schedule. The chocolate has been ordered but not yet received so things could change a bit. Also, I'll add more details either here or under the class notes. Slight changes may be made to the order things are done.
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, November 29 | Blind taste test: Three common commercial chocolates, melted and resolidified so that you won't be able to identify them. This test will be repeated the last day of interim and the three chocolates will be idenfitied at that time. |
| Thursday, January 5 |
Chocolate Basics: Components: Domori cocoa beans, Domori nibs, regular and dutched cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and sugar Families: Ghirardelli White, Dark, 100% |
| Friday, January 6 |
More Tasting Basics: Breathing and Temperature with Scharffen Berger 41% Milk Chocolate and 70% Dark Chocolate |
| Monday, January 9 |
Milk Chocolates: Green & Blacks Organic Milk Chocolate El Rey Caoba Milk Chocolate Michel Cluizel Mangaro Milk Amedei Blended Cru Toscano Brown Milk Chocolate |
| Wednesday, January 11 |
White Chocolates: Green &n Blacks Organic White Chocolate El Rey Icoa White Chocolate Michel Cluizel Ivoire Amedei Blended Cru Toscano White Chocolate |
| Friday, January 13 |
Dark Chocolates Percentages, Part 1: Scharffen Berger Semisweet 62% Scharffen Berger Bittersweet 70% Scharffen Berger Extra Bittersweet 82% Special: Antidote HESTIA 77% Banana Cayenne Pepper |
| Monday, January 16 |
Varietals (& Terrior): E. Guittard Ambanja E. Guittard Chucuri E. Guittard Sur del Lago E. Guittard Quevedo |
| Wednesday, January 18 |
South American Varietals: Pralus Chuao 75% Pralus Bresil 75% Pralus Colombie 75% Pralus Fortissima 80% Special: Dolfin Chocolat Noir Au Poivre Rose |
| Friday, January 20 |
Dark Chocolate Percentages, Part 2: Santander 53% Dark Santander 65% Dark Santander 70% Dark |
| Monday, January 23 |
Paired Varietals/Terriors: Pralus Madagascar 75% Pralus Indonesie 75% Pralus Caracas 75% Pralus Venezuela 75% Special: Antidote TONACATECUHTLI 100% Raw Cacao w/ Nibs |
| Wednesday, January 25 |
Dark Chocolate Percentages, Part 3: El Rey Bucare Dark Chocolate 58.5% El Rey Mijao Dark Chocolate 61% El Rey Gran Saman Dark Chocolate 70% |
| Friday, January 27 |
Best of the Varietals: Amedei Porcelana 70% Amedei Chuao 70% Amedei 9 75% Special: Santander Chocolate-Covered Coffee Beans |
| Monday, January 30 |
Vintage Chocolates: Valrhona Gran Couva 2010 Valrhona Gran Couva 2011 Valrhona Palmira 2009 Valrhona Palmira 2010 Special: Vosges Mo’s Bacon Chocolate |
| Wednesday, February 1 |
Repeat of the blind taste test: You'll finally learn the identity of the three mystery chocolates. |
We will also have several unusual flavored chocolates that we will be working into the schedule one at a time as noted above.