Culinary – A Unique Art

Food is the basic necessity for all forms of life and it is the fundamental building block for life to originate and thrive on the planet earth. For decades, human civilizations have prospered into the areas which provide ample supply of food and water around the year. Civilizations often grew across length and breadth of rivers across the continents i.e. Indus Valley or Egyptian Civilizations. Foods eating habits and cuisines have also gone through tremendous evolution over the time and today culinary arts act as summation of a finer food preparation and serving practices worldwide.

In today’s scenario, fine dining has more or less become integral part of our lives. Streets and shopping malls around us are flooded with fine dining restaurants which bring in cuisines from across the globe to us. People who travel frequently or move their base to new locations also crave for the food of their liking. This trend has created tremendous demand for professionals across the globes that are well versed in culinary arts. These professionals are expected to possess mastery over preparation and presentation of multiple cuisines like continental, Italian, Chinese, French etc to name a few.

A culinary arts professional uses his knowledge, passion and instinct to create dishes which are perfect combination of taste, flavour and visual appearance. A good chef possesses the super power to move people emotionally. He/she puts combines his passion and vision with skill to mix right ingredients at right temperature to create perfect dishes. A well cooked dish has power to evoke emotions and create perfect delight which goes beyond just eating as an activity.

Culinary art professionals not only specialise in cooking but they also tend to excel in other sought after professions like food critic or food photographers. The rise of photo based social networks like instagram and food delivery services like Tomato has been instrumental in creating lot of demand for these new age professionals. These professionals treat culinary arts as a perfect blend of arts as well as science. They use their creativity and instinct to provide beautiful images and apt reviews of food on the social networks.

This is the primary reason why most of the hotel management school include Culinary Arts as one of the main subjects in the curriculum. Culinary arts add a unique dimension to the hotel management courses and help the disciples of these courses in evolving into a well rounded hospitality industry professional. Keeping the demand of culinary arts professionals in mind, the widely acclaimed Symbiosis International University, Pune came up with Symbiosis school of Culinary Arts (SSCA). SSCA offers three year full time graduation (B. Sc.) program in Culinary Arts. This is the flagship course offered by SSCA which aims to create well rounded creative professionals in culinary arts. Apart from instilling culinary related skills into disciples, this course also aims to teach them other skills like human resource management, cost control and customer relationship management. These skills help the professionals in delivering value and thrive in highly competitive food industry.

URL - https://ssca.edu.in/

Symbiosis School of Culinary Arts 3rd Floor Sit Bldg, Hill Base Campus,Symbiosis Knowledge Village, Gram- Lavale,Taluka- Mulshi, Dist- Pune 412115 Office Timing : 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.