Cooperative Cooking
Dining is one of the cornerstones of an active social life. The CIP Culinary program is designed to make small group dining an easy and rewarding part of your daily apartment living.
We train you in the tools of the Culinary Arts with plenty of hands-on training, so that when it comes time to invite friends over to your home, you will feel comfortable offering them something to eat before the big game on TV or before going out for the evening.
A Simple Weekly Menu
You will meet with staff and create a weekly menu. You will learn what foods taste great together, and how they help to keep you healthy and happy; how to safely prepare food, keep clean up simple and saving extra food so it stays fresh.
On Friday, you will participate in and activity called Grillin'N'Chilin. All students will gather in the apartment patio area. This activity occurs weekly to provide a relaxed, social atmosphere. Each student will bring an item to be grilled by one of the residential staff members.
The College Internship Program encourages students to buy and prepare healthy foods in their apartments.
You will also learn how to follow simple recipes and adapt them to your needs; How to modify recipes and keep your own recipe box; How to have patience while cooking and yet pay attention to the cooking time through timers and techniques.
The Program
Students divide up the responsibility of cooking during the week. You’ll receive personal guidance each week in your apartment to cook.
You will also receive instruction in the following:
- Comparative shopping and cooking for yourself and small groups
- Buying healthy whole foods
- Serving a variety of foods from the major nutritional groups and expand upon your natural inclination to be healthy through eating well
- Fire safety in the kitchen
- Food safety
- Proper use of the dishwasher
- Dish cloths and oven mitts
- Vegetarian and meat dishes
- Basic kitchen needs
- How to cut, chop and slice
- Dough preparation for pizza, cookies, and pies
- Salad preparation
- Cleaning up your act