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Baking and Pastry Schools. A Love/Hate Analysis.

It’s hard to miss the famous baking and pastry schools in New York City. About once a week I’d be strolling down Broadway, through SoHo, and I’d walk right past The French Culinary Institute . A Taste of Culinary Education. I’d stop at the window of FCI and peer inside. You can see the dining room very clearly from the street. Each perfectly presented table sitting in its own window perch. The tabletops were speckled with grandly folded white napkins and tall sleek water and wine glasses. Around the corner of the school, off the main strip of Broadway, sometimes I’d spot a gaggle of chefs outside the back door, their white chef uniforms on, puffing away on cigarettes or just getting a breath of the sticky sweet New York City air. I’d get chills, it was a foodie sight to behold. And the coolest part was that anyone could get a taste of ‘culinary education’ by dining in the school’s restaurant, L’Ecole . I’d always check out the menu… image: Babycakes NYC vegan doughnuts, by K. Patalsky L’Ecole. Brilliantly Traditional. L’Ecole, the FCI in-school restaurant offered full coursed meals made by the students and staff, the website states: “Behind every meal at L’Ecole is the passion and dedication of…

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