Baker Bettie Goes to Culinary School

In 2013, I decided to commit to a career in food for good. I had worked in restaurants since age fourteen in practically every position possible, but I decided to enroll in culinary school at JNA Institute of Culinary Arts to begin my formal education. I had never felt so excited to go to a class as I did in culinary school.

Culinary school was a real turning point in the way I thought about baking. Up to this point, I had been learning to bake recipe by recipe. I wasn’t really putting whole concepts together. However, in school, we would learn a mixing method or technique and then apply that to various types of cooking or baking. It was a revelation in building my baking confidence. It also affirmed my drive to help other new bakers learn in a simpler way.