understand Western ingredients and cookery techniques, based on the
principles of French cuisine
read and interpret a recipe
follow a wine tasting
make espresso coffee (eg cappuccino, latte)
provide good customer service in the hospitality industry.
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Students spend three days each week cooking and learning to prepare: breads,
cakes, sponges and desserts, including ice cream, custards and tarts.
Wine appreciation, including learning about different wine styles and how to
evaluate them. The wine component includes a trip to a top New Zealand winery
and focuses predominantly on New Zealand wine, but will include other wines from
around the world.
Hospitality workshops where students learn to wait tables, take orders,
serve wine and make coffee.
understand Western ingredients and cookery techniques based on
the principles of French cuisine.
understand different wine qualities and recommend a wine
match.
be a professional barista, making espresso coffee (eg
cappuccino, latte)
provide good customer service in the hospitality
industry.
take food and beverage orders in a
restaurant.
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Students spend two days each week cooking and learn how to
prepare menus and cook meat and vegetables, as well as bake breads, pastries and
tarts.
Hospitality workshops where students learn to wait tables, take
orders, serve wine and make coffee.
The art of being a Waiter and Barista (making cappuccinos,
latte, flat white etc).
Wine appreciation, including how to evaluate wine in tutored
tastings that will enable students to speak with knowledge about a wine list and
recommend wines to customers. The wine component includes a trip to a top New
Zealand winery and focuses predominantly on New Zealand wine, but will include
other wines from around the world.
Work Experience in the restaurant at Hay's. This will happen over a number of weeks during the course. Students
will receive a roster on the first day for their work experience, which will
take place at night from 5.00-10.00pm
The course commences with skills such as stock making, soups and classical
sauces. Baking is an important element with breads, pastries, cakes and eggs.
Butchery, boning and filleting skills are covered. Other sessions include ice
creams, sorbets, custards and meringues. A Mediterranean Workshop teaches
students how to make pasta plus they are able to invite a friend to sample a
Mediterranean meal that they have designed, costed and cooked. Asian ingredients
are introduced and integrated into the menus.
Menu planning and costing helps students develop an awareness of food costs
while learning how to create a well balanced menu. During the course students
work individually to design menus for specific occasions and within a set
budget. This helps students understand some of the skills needed to succeed in a
hospitality business while further developing their general knowledge of
cookery.
Wine is an important component and understanding its relationship with food
is exciting and stimulating. The NZ Certificate in Wine enables students to
learn to evaluate wines while tasting blind and to understand wine making.
Students also learn the principles of matching wine with food.
Work Experience takes place over four evenings at Hay's, located on the
ground floor of the building. The course is structured around the
internationally respected text book, Leith's Bible, from the famous Leith's
School of Food and Wine, London.