Class 35 -- "In Full Stride 35"

October busy; November will be even busier

Executive Director Ron Ahlert sent the update below to board members and others interested in the Community Culinary School.

Oct. 26, 2009

Hello Good People,

When we make it through this week, we will all have survived a very full month of October. Along with a full curriculum here is a list of October Student Happenings:

Oct. 3: Made and served desserts for Loaves & Fishes Supper Fundraiser. 3 Students & Biriam made us proud.

Oct. 5: We did a team building event for Lance. Staff  and students all helped capture interest from all Lance participants.

Oct. 8: BISTRO!

Oct. 11: Golf prep Thanks, all.

Oct. 12: Golf tournament, see website for fun photos. Soggy but fun.

Oct. 14, 15: 300-person wedding prep for Friendship Tray Family Members.

Oct. 17: Encore  and students facilitate wedding. Alll went great.

Oct. 22: BISTRO!

Oct. 23: Slow Food & Friendship Trays garden party here at 2401 Distribution St. Staff and students cook and serve with guest chefs.

Oct. 26: IFSEA Halloween fun begins at  6 p.m. at CPCC Harris campus. All are welcome.Chef Geoffrey Blount hosts – Butterfinger Cheesecake etc.

Oct. 27: A field trip for Class 35 to the IFH food show in Hickory. The art of purchasing food.

Oct. 28: Team building with Lance . Thanks to Joe for helping us kick this off last year.

Oct. 29: Students prepare a supper for Hospitality House. ”Just Giving Back,”

 Oct. 30: Taste of the Nation Board (taste buds) Breakfast here at 2401, 10 a.m. Lunch for 75 at Steele Creek Presbyterian Church at 12:30 p.m.

Class 35 was exposed to many different food scenarios this month. The students all welcome the support given to them by all of us. As the holidays approach we all look forward to a fuller culinary learning experience.

A lot of excitement is in the air here. We will have Chef Peter’s two-day baking class and Chef Jim’s emulsion class, among a packed November calendar.

Relationships with our sister agencies here in the building are growing stronger. Fiscally we are OK and keeping a watchful eye on our own and our country’s economy.

Stop in anytime to see, feel and taste the changes the Community Culinary School of Charlotte has and is making in our students and alumni’s lives. CCSC is “Fighting Hunger While Creating Opportunity”. We could not do it with out your support.

Ron

 

It's a BISTRO!

Oct. 8, 2009

 

 

Teamwork in the Friendship Trays kitchen: A video from Dec. 11, 2009

 

 

 

 

Calendar Highlights for Class 35

Class Begins Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

BISTRO! Oct. 8, 2009

BISTRO! Oct. 22, 2009

BISTRO! Nov. 5, 2009

BISTRO! Nov. 19, 2009 (optional)

BISTRO! Dec. 3, 2009

Graduation is Dec. 21, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. at the CPCC Harris campus.

 

 

 

Postings of particular interest to Class 35 

 

 

Sept. 16: Class 35 gathers for its first lunch together.

 

Sept. 24

 

Sept. 25

 

     

Oct. 13

 

 

Nov. 13: Lunch break on a balmy Election Day.

 

 

 

 

Click for Smilebox slideshow of Chef Haines Barksdale's cake-making demonstration.

 

 

Dec. 10, 2009 Cakes made by Class 35 helped feed seniors this evening at Parktowne Terrace near SouthPark.

 

 

 

Dec. 16, 2009

Dondrake Baldwin Sr., Lamont McDonald and James Bethea after lunch in the kitchen. Monday's graduation was on their mind.

 

 

Dec. 21, 2009

 

Class 35 graduation coverage

 

Meet the graduates and listen to the commencement speech by Peter Reinhart, Chef on Assignment at Johnson & Wales University, who was guest baking instructur for Class 35.

 

Graduation photos are here. Higher-resolution copies of the uncropped photos shown may be downloaded for printing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Satterfield milestone

May 19, 2010

It was peak hour in the kitchen, but everybody stopped for a minute to honor a rookie culinarian who is on his way.

Charles Satterfield of Class 35 has been employed in the culinary industry for six months. That meant he qualified for the gift for all graduates who succeed after graduating: a knife set provided by Piedmont Natural Gas.

Satterfield was hired by Grateful Growers to do food preparation for the Harvest Moon Grille, the orange trailer that makes stops at farmers markets and at pedestrian spots downtown. His work has him in the Distribution Street kitchen after Culinary School hours.

Congratulations to Charles Satterfield, and we look forward to seeing more Class 35 graduates back as they qualify for this recognition.