Culinary 2 Research Project

Names: ______

Period: ______Date Due: ______

Topic Chosen: ______

Directions:

You are going to be researching and creating a PowerPoint on a famous baker or pastry chef. You can choose from the list below or someone else you may have in mind. Only one group can choose a specific baker/pastry chef per class. You will be presenting this information in front of your peers. There will be a vote on what recipe your classmates wish to make after the projects and presentations are complete. The winner of the vote receives 5 extra credit points!

Here are some choices:

- Florian Bellanger

- Heather Chittum

- Sonia El-Nawal

- Hedy Goldsmith

- Nancy Silverton

- Jacques Torres

- Adrian Vasquez

- Gaston Lenotre

- Jacques Maximin

- Jordan Kahn

- Duff Goldman

- Jean Francois Bonnet

- Jimmy MacMillan

- Julia Childs

- Sebastien Canonne

- Jacquy Pfeiffer - Nicolas Bernarde

- Franz Ziegler

- Felicia Jablonski

- Buddy Valastro

- Ron Ben Israel

This is the criteria that you MUST include in your project:

- A life’s biography on the pastry chef/baker

- Why they are famous/well perceived as a baker/pastry chef

- Why they decided to go into the pastry field

- What college/training they went through

- How much they make per year/salary

- Examples of their work (pictures of cakes, pies, tarts, etc.)  must be at least 5

- Pictures of your baker/pastry chef  there must be at least 5

- One recipe, made by your baker/pastry chef, which you will be offering to your classmates that will go into the final vote! (having a recipe to hand out to class is worth 5 points!) Each recipe is going to help form a recipe booklet for each student in class.

o Examples

. Chocolate Decadent Cake

. Crème Brule

. Fruit Tart with lemon custard filling GENERAL GRADING OF PRESENTATIONS AND POWERPOINTS

- PowerPoint is going to be worth 20 points

- Each presentation is going to be worth 25 points

- Recipe to hand out to class is worth 5 points