Michele Thomas - Culinary Careers For Dummies

Culinary Careers For Dummies

by Michele Thomas, Annette Tomei, and Tracey Vasil Biscontini

Culinary Careers For Dummies

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About the Authors

As managing editor at International Culinary Center of New York, Michele Thomas oversees editorial production and distribution of the schools proprietary curricula for its professional and amateur French and Italian cooking, pastry, and bread-baking classes. She was introduced to the thrills of cooking and candy-making as a child through her mothers work with holiday gingerbread displays. After studying communication and media at Fordham University, she started a career developing K-12 picture books, textbooks, and teaching materials in science, mathematics, and reading for several major publishers, including Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Harcourt School Publishers, Pearson Education, Houghton Mifflin, Rosen Publishing Group, and Newbridge Educational Publishing, as well as the Department of Education for the US Virgin Islands. She has also covered food, fitness, nutrition, fashion, education, home, and lifestyle for Metro Newspaper Service, where she also wrote marketing materials for diverse clients, such as Disaronno Amaretto, OXO, the Platinum Guild, the Accessories Council, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, and Armstrong Floors. A Brooklyn, New York, native, Michele teaches high school academic-essay writing for Legal Outreach, a New York-based nonprofit mentoring organization. She also teaches creative writing as a volunteer with Girls Write Now, one of the top 10 after-school programs in the United States.

Chef Annette Tomei is a food and beverage educator based in New York City. She is a 1994 graduate of The French Culinary Institute (FCI) and holds a masters degree in gastronomy from the University of Adelaide with Le Cordon Bleu Australia. She has been a chef, an educator, and a speaker covering an array of subjects from basic knife skills to aphrodisiacs in the kitchen to beverage pairing. Her work takes her from New York and California to Italy and beyond.

Annette is the co-author of Chile Aphrodisia (Rio Nuevo) and a contributor to Fork Me, Spoon Me: the Sensual Cookbook (Life of Reiley). She has also written curriculum and designed and managed educational programs for both The French Culinary Institute and The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.

Tracey Vasil Biscontini is the founder, president, and CEO of Northeast Editing, Inc., a company specializing in the creation of educational content for publishers. She holds bachelors degrees in mass communications and education from Kings College and a masters degree in English from the University of Scranton. Recently named one of the Top 25 Women in Business in Northeast Pennsylvania, she is a former educator, journalist, and newspaper columnist whose award-winning writing has appeared in national magazines. Since founding Northeast Editing, Inc., in 1992, she has managed educational projects and authored test-preparation and library-reference content for some of the largest publishers in the United States.

Northeast Editing, Inc., is located in a former rectory in Jenkins Township, a small community nestled between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton in northeastern Pennsylvania. Traceys company boasts a relaxed working environment that serves as her staffs home away from home. When theyre not hard at work, the editors and writers at Northeast Editing, Inc., enjoy breaks in a large backyard and welcome hugs from Prince, a former stray that is now a resident office cat. Tracey lives in Avoca, Pennsylvania, with her husband Nick, son Tyler, and daughter Morgan.

Authors' Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Angela Harmon and Nicole Frail, editors at Northeast Editing, Inc., who devoted countless hours of research and writing to help create this book. We also thank Tracy Boggier, our acquisitions editor, who got the ball rolling; Linda Brandon, our incredible project editor, who offered advice and guidance every step of the way; our wonderful copy editor Caitie Copple; and our knowledgeable technical editor, Russ Zito.