What determines the best culinary arts school?

By far the most important ingredient to any good cooking school is the quality of the chef instructors.  An engaging, knowledgeable and experienced teacher makes all the difference.  A good instructor can make even the most banal topic more interesting, and because even the best chefs in the world don’t always deliver the best instruction, the chef instructors at the New School of Cooking are hand-picked, both for their wealth of experience in culinary arts and for their many years of teaching experience.

The best culinary arts school should also be setting trends, not just following them. It’s ideal to learn from an inquisitive, adventurous and imaginative staff whose passion for food is infectious.  Good chef instructors and culinary school administrators should constantly expand their own knowledge so they can pass that information on to their students.  At The New School of Cooking, the entire staff explores ethnic foods, newly-available ingredients, and emerging data on health and nutrition.  The staff also regularly updates and improves all of our programs.  The attention to authenticity and quality is evident in all the classes the New School offers.

Another critical component to maintaining the best culinary arts school is a small class size, ensuring plenty of personalized attention.  In both the professional cooking and baking programs at the New School of Cooking, classes never exceed twelve students, meaning that the instructor and teacher’s assistant are available to give each student individual help with techniques and tools.  Recreational classes are limited to sixteen students, with a chef instructor and two assistant instructors.

There’s so much more that creates the best culinary school—good equipment, a friendly staff and a clean, spacious kitchen, as well as a full spectrum of class offerings.  When it comes to cooking schools, The New School of Cooking has all that and more.