| ELL students finish program
DALLASTOWN SCHOOLS — The Dallastown Area School District recently finished its summer program for English Language Learner students and their parents. Instructional Program Specialist Alma Row said 13 students, from first grade through high school, and two parents participated in the week-long program. The program helps the students and their parents to connect with the community and increase communication skills in English, Row said. The group took a virtual road trip through the United States to have a greater understanding of the country, she said. The trip started in York County and went to Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Google Earth, literature, games and cooking were incorporated in the activities. "It was tons of fun," Row said.
Entree into the kitchen
The question is a hot topic in certain food circles: Why are outsiders being hired to open certain top-drawer Washington restaurants? Isn't the reputation or education of home-grown talent good enough?
Celebrity chefs Eric Ripert and Wolfgang Puck are scheduled to head up two first-class eateries in the District next year, following others who have come to the region from other large cities.
It's not the quality of local cooking schools that is in question, suggest District chefs Jeff Tunks of Passion Food Hospitality, a restaurant group that includes Ceiba, DC Coast and TenPehn, and Vikram Garg of Indebleu, but the high stakes of being successful in an extremely competitive field where problems include keeping young chefs who often think moving from job to job builds a more impressive resume.
Weekend Beat/Breathing Space: Writer follows nose to cooking school; learns to bake bread
Where was the yummy smell coming from? I followed my nose to a glassed-in cooking school at Tokyo Midtown in the Roppongi area. Behind the glass wall, dozens of women wearing colorful aprons were cooking. Further investigation revealed it was one of 93 female-only cooking schools operated nationwide by ABC Cooking Studio Co. The outlet at Tokyo Midtown was a bit different from the others--it offers some classes in English. Learning to cook in English. It sounded like fun. Since free trial lessons were available, I immediately signed up. Three courses were offered: general cooking, bread or cakes. I chose bread. During the lesson, I would be baking cafe-au-lait bread. I'd baked pizza from scratch, but never bread. As instructed, I showed up for the lesson armed with an apron, a pair of slippers and a small towel.
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