8 month program

Heard, Chef.

In the Pro Series 3 Program, you’ll compare and contrast advanced food preparation and cooking techniques from around the world. You’ll also learn how to manage a garde manger where cold dishes are prepared (salads, charcuterie, and so on).

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Kick Up Your Culinary Career with our International Cooking Program

Do you already have a background in the culinary arts, but want to expand your horizons? The Chef Apprentice of Culinary Arts Pro Series 2 Program was made for you. You’ll take what you already know to exciting new places and prepare yourself for an entry-level job in a restaurant as a cook or line cook. You’ll learn classical cooking techniques, kitchen operations, food chemistry, and more in this advanced program.

You’ll begin the program in a professional kitchen, learning alongside a chef with years of industry experience. See how a real-world kitchen operates, get a better understanding of kitchen equipment, and learn how to prepare the kitchen for cooking. This one-on-one experience just can’t be replicated in a classroom or with several other students in a test kitchen.

Tuition for Workshops is $4,200

BROWSE COURSE PLAN

HOW THE GOURMET CHEF PROGRAM IS DELIVERED TO YOU

CHEF BOOTCAMP

MODULE 1
  • Learn how to be a Pro Chef by learning privately, 1 on 1
  • 25 hours of private instruction using the CASA curriculum
  • Taught in a commercial kitchen, just you and a CASA Pro Chef
  • Part Time, Full Time, Nights and Weekends Available

Home Study

MODULE 2
  • As your progress through Module #1, learn at home simultaneously with our Proprietary Video Series
  • Cook up to 135 original recipes
  • Learn from James Beard Nominated Chefs and Legends of Culinary and Pro Educators
  • Interact with our Curriculum Portal Online from any device

Academic facilitator

MODULE 3
  • Interact at any time with your second Mentor, a Pro Chef, remotely
  • Set an appointment and get tutoring, homework help, tasting notes.
  • Career Advice, Career Coaching Support

THE EXTERNSHIP

MODULE 4
  • After Modules 1-3 are completed, learn in a real restaurant
  • 100 hours of on the job training, cooking for customers
  • Learn from your 3rd Mentor, a Pro Chef and/or Restaurant Owner
  • Audition for a real job as you learn as an Apprentice

THE PITCH

MODULE 5
  • Pitch your best restaurant idea or Culinary Related Business Idea to Investors
  • Think Shark Tank for Culinary
  • Train to pitch your best idea for your dream culinary idea and then pitch it!

Job placement

MODULE 6
  • If you haven’t been offered a job in the kitchen you trained at in Module #4, get one year of REAL job Placement from our Career Development Counselors.
  • We will send you out on real culinary job opportunities

Your International Cooking Program Curriculum

Along with your in-person sessions, you’ll have structured virtual assignments to give you a well-rounded education in the culinary arts. You’ll work with meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and more, follow shopping lists, and prepare recipes as directed by your mentor. You’ll document your work as part of a Culinary Portfolio that will be reviewed at the end of the program.

These aren’t random videos or online tutorials you stumble across online–these are structured lessons, focused on giving you the skills you’ll need to further your cooking career. As part of your education, you’ll visit a butcher or fishmonger to learn more about the food you’ll be preparing in your culinary career. You’ll document your experience and include it in your final presentation.

Private Learning
Cook 135 Recipes
Job Placement

WE ARE MUCH DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TRADITIONAL CULINARY SCHOOL AND HERES HOW

LEARN FROM PROS

learn from 3 mentors - a private chef in a commercial kitchen, an academic facilitator remotely, and a mentor at an externship in a real restaurant.

MAKING MEALS

Learn privately from home and cook over 135 recipes and while studying our CASA culinary videos.

JOB PLACEMENT

Learn in a real restaurant guaranteed and then get one year of job placement.

25 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION

Learn One on One and Privately from a PRO CHEF. We call this Culinary Bootcamp. 25 hours of private one-on-one instruction.

STUDY AT HOME

While you are working with a PRO, study at home and create culinary creations from our family of Pro Chefs.

6 MONTHS (24 WEEKS)

You Graduate in 6 Months (24-Weeks) for 1/4 of the price* of traditional culinary programs.

OVER 300 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION IN 6 MONTHS

All this in 6 months and for 75% less tuition costs than most all other Culinary Schools.

With CASA, you learn one-on-one in a real kitchen. We will give you private lessons while the restaurant is closed or slow. As you learn privately, you will be studying and cooking at home too.

After you complete all your recipes (134 of them to be exact) and once you complete all your private lessons with the pro chef, we will place you in a real restaurant anywhere in the U.S. to finish your studies as an extern in the real world.

Start your culinary journey and become the chef you’ve dreamed of!

You will be mentored by an expert chef and gain real-world experience in an actual kitchen. Professional chefs have never been in such high demand and our job placement is unmatched in the industry.

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All this for well under what most culinary schools charge in tuition we are committed to keeping you out of insurmountable debt.

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Entering the culinary arts world loaded down in debt can seriously thwart your future success. CASA’s curriculum-backed, on-the-job training is time-efficient and cost-efficient.

Get your culinary education started today.

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FAQs

While completion of the Chef Apprentice of Culinary Arts Pro Series 1 Program is advisable, it isn’t necessary. We do recommend having at least some experience in the culinary arts, which could include life experience. You will need to complete a ServSafe Safe Food Handler Certification before beginning the program, however.

This eight-week program includes two in-person courses in your mentor’s professional kitchen and six at-home virtual lessons.

CASA Programs are specifically designed to keep you out of debt so we keep tuition as low as possible. The Pro Series Programs were created to give students access to a culinary education without having to spend months in a classroom or come up with an exorbitant amount of money.

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