To better prepare students and keep pace with new and emerging culinary industry trends, New England Culinary Institute (NECI) will roll-out three new specializations within its bachelor degree programs in September 2008. The three specializations – Sustainability, Wine and Beverage Studies, and Baking and Pastry.
I am proud to mention that I attended NECI back in the mid 90’s. The school offers one of the best hands on training that is available today among all the culinary schools out there. Now with the specialization in three different areas, this will make the school an even more attractive place to study.
I only wish that these programs were available when I went to school.
Archive for June, 2008
David Farkas just wrote in his blog about his interview with Joe Micatrotto – the former CEO of Buca – that defrauded the company out of a lot of money. In the wake of Enron and Tyco, Micatrotto and two of his other henchmen where found guilty of embezzlement with moving money around to finance a villa in Tuscany, pay for his kid’s wedding and move around money to pay off restaurant debts.
But what gets me more about Farkas’ entry is that it seems as if Farkas was trying to paint Micatrotto in a positive light. So much of this is for press.
My wife and I just saw American Gangster with Denzel Washington. It was a good movie and entertaining. But what I got away with when we finished the movie was that the character that Denzel Washington was playing was almost made out to be the good guy in a way. Yes, he did help out a lot of people in the Harlem neighborhood by giving out free turkeys at Thanksgiving, but he also killed a lot of people along the way. Not to mention, distributing and trafficing drugs.
Not Joe Micatrotto may not have killed anyone, but he sure did now what he was doing with Buca. How could you not? There have been some that say he was just the fall guy who took it for a few bad apples. Well, if that is the case, I am sure that he may have been one of those bad apples as well.
