Creative Cuisine

About

In this Summer Course in Creative Cuisine, taught in English, we’ll explore the various phases of a gastronomic project: analysing the context of avant-garde cuisine, investigating the concept to be developed, designing and creating a culinary experience from start to finish, and the menu to go with it.

In the 2-week course you’ll learn the processes, the latest techniques and skills needed to develop innovative gastronomic proposals. You’ll also study the history of cooking, its evolution and trends.

A course in which cooking and design techniques converge, taking a creative approach to the culinary tradition of the Basque Country.

Target group

· Cooking enthusiasts who want to take their hobby to the next level by learning professional techniques and exploring their creative talent.

· Cooking graduates (recent or not) who want to specialize in culinary experience management.

· Gastronomic advisors who want to complete their training and offer more coherent and consistent projects.

· Professional chefs and cooks who want to develop their skills, explore new techniques and convey a deeper message with their dishes.

· People who want to open or promote their own gastronomic business, innovate their menus, improve customer experience or stand out from the crowd by proposing unique culinary solutions.

· Cooking and gastronomy lecturers and educators who want to enrich the teaching they offer with design processes, developing concepts for their gastronomic proposals.

· Professionals from other areas related to gastronomy, food critics, product photographers or culinary stylist who want a deeper understanding of what goes into the creative cuisine process to improve their own work.

Prior cooking knowledge and experience (tools, techniques, ingredients, preparation, cooking, etc.) is essential to get the most out of the course.

Course aim

Take a creative approach to designing gastronomic experiences with a focus on the conceptual design process.

The objectives of the course are innovation and gastronomic creativity, giving you the foundations you need to develop your own culinary projects.

It’s a practice-based course in which you’ll learn the latest techniques, processes, ingredients and skills needed to design menus and experiences with a difference.

You’ll put what you’ve learned into practice designing a gastronomic event: research, concept selection, experience design, production, logistics and execution.

It’s a very dynamic experience with students from all over the world, in a creative environment like IED Kunsthal Bilbao. And you’ll be studying in the Basque Country, where people are constantly breaking new ground in avant-garde cuisine.

This introductory course can open the doors to a wide range of professional opportunities:

· Start your own gastronomic business in the food sector: catering and services for events, food trucks, restaurants...

· Creative cuisine chef developing innovative new dishes.

· Gastronomic consultant advising restaurants on menu innovation.

· New food product creator, applying creative cuisine know-how.

· Expert teaching cooking classes in schools or face-to-face and online workshops.

Fee info

1900