Culinary School Degree Plus

Working as a chef in a restaurant is not the only job available to culinary school graduates. There are other interesting careers available in fields such as nutrition, recipe and menu development and testing, and other jobs that are not day-to-day chef jobs.

At the end of your culinary school training, you not only have a degree but a wealth of information about food—from preparation, to presentation, to nutrition—that you can combine with your other personal interests to design the perfect career.

Culinary School Degree Plus Design Flair

If you have a flair for design, you might combine that skill with your culinary school degree to:

Style and photograph food for television commercials or cookbooks
Develop logos and visual trademarks or Web sites for food industry giants
Work on food marketing campaigns
Challenge yourself to design efficient and sensible yet sensational kitchens

Culinary School Degree Plus Health Concerns

Concern for health issues can help you parlay your culinary school degree into a career:

Developing and testing recipes and menus for specialty diets for diabetics, cardiac rehab patients, pregnant mothers, vegetarians, or people who need to eat gluten-free
Re-working existing classic recipes to use healthier ingredients
Creating healthy menus for and supervising business on-site cafeterias

Culinary School Degree Plus Teaching

If teaching is your calling, use your culinary school degree to teach:

Culinary school or nutrition classes
Demonstrate cooking techniques or products
Health education and nutrition classes in the workplace as they place increased emphasis on employee health issues

Culinary School Degree Plus Writing

Do you have a fascination with words? If you do and you love food, use that culinary school degree to write cookbooks, culinary columns, or food reviews. Write articles for the Internet or for culinary magazines.

You career goal may not be to work as a chef, but you can pursue a variety of rewarding careers by combining a culinary school degree with your other passions.

Sources

Thyme to Savor Health
Elements of Taste

About the Author

Judi Sandall is a technical writer and a regular Chef School Review columnist. She is a graduate of the State University of New York, with a BA in English Literature.

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