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Culinary School

lisaemu

By lisaemu
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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lisaemu
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I was jsut curious on your thoughts...I currently go to a university, but planned to dually enrolled at a local community college for the culinary program next fall since it has always been my dream to have a restaurant...but now I'm finding out that I most likely have a soy and gluten intollerance. Do you think there would be too great of a risk being around so much flour and the likes? Just wondering your thoughts, I'm still contemplating it myself.

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Personally, I hope to take culinary classes, but I'm not sure how you could become a chef and restaurant owner when you can't even put gluten or soy in your mouth.

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ehrin
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I was in culinary school and was a vegetarian at the time. I had yet to be dx with Celiac. I can tell you that it was very hard to be in culinary school, as a vegetarian. As a cook you need to be able to taste your dishes so that you can ascertain the balance of herbs and spices, as well as to see if you botched anything or even to see if your dish needs something a bit more enticing. I have a feeling that taking cooking classes, having celiac, is going to be very hard. :angry:

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I was in culinary school and was a vegetarian at the time. I had yet to be dx with Celiac. I can tell you that it was very hard to be in culinary school, as a vegetarian. As a cook you need to be able to taste your dishes so that you can ascertain the balance of herbs and spices, as well as to see if you botched anything or even to see if your dish needs something a bit more enticing. I have a feeling that taking cooking classes, having celiac, is going to be very hard. :angry:

Sorry!

How long were you in culinary school for? The tasting the food thing is the problem- even when I cook at home I need to make sure the flavors taste right and pretty sure almost nothing I'd make in culinary school would be gluten or soy free! Right now Im so sick of food tho cuz everything seems to make me feel like crap...so maybe I'll put off culinary school for now! And by the wAY i was a vegetarian for a while too..and worked at boston market which was defiantely interesting. Did your celiac symptoms come up after u were a vegetarian for a while? Both times I tried being a vegetarian my stomach problems have flared up majorly.

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