Culinary Skills

As a Culinary Skills graduate you have the culinary confidence and competence needed to work side by side with cooks and Chefs in professional kitchens and food service environments.

The School of Culinary Arts at Niagara College is renowned for its outstanding reputation with graduates, employers, and industry partners. It has an unmatched hands-on learning environment with leading-edge facilities and world-class chef faculty. You’ll receive industry and community engagement through not-for-profit and catered events, recipe competitions, and industry research and innovation.

What You’ll Learn

• Provide fundamental culinary preparation and presentation for a variety of food service environments using a range of classical and contemporary techniques.
• Apply basic food and bake science to food preparation to create a desired end product.
• Contribute to and monitor adherence of others to the provisions of a well-maintained kitchen environment and to the service of food and beverage products that are free from harmful bacteria or other contaminants, adhering to health, safety, sanitation, and food handling regulations.
• Ensure the safe operation of the kitchen and all aspects of food preparation to promote healthy workspaces and the responsible, efficient use of resources.
• Support the development of menu options that reflect knowledge of nutrition and food ingredients, promote general health and well-being, respond to a range of nutritional needs and preferences, and address modifications for special diets, food allergies, and intolerances, as required.
• Apply fundamental business principles and recognized industry costing and control practices to food service operations to promote a fiscally responsible operation.
• Apply basic knowledge of sustainability, ethical and local food sourcing, and food security to food preparation and kitchen management, recognizing the potential impacts on food production, consumer choice and operations within the food service industry.