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COOK Masters Series: Online Application Now Being Accepted

Posted by Jason Sheehan on November 21st, 2012

For those of you who have already submitted your applications for the COOK Masters Series, thank you. You can safely ignore this post (unless, like me, you don’t trust the post office or want to give yourself a digital do-over on your application).

For those of you who’ve been thinking about applying but are too lazy to find an envelope and stamps, today is your lucky day.

Because of the holiday, the lag in the mail and our own need to get this process moving quickly (classes start in about a month and a half), we’ve put together an online version of the application for the COOK Masters Series–which, if you don’t know, is the completely free professional-level cooking school being offered through COOK and taught by the likes of Joe Cicala, Michael Solomonov, Pierre Calmels, Peter Woolsey and other serious, heavyweight Philly chefs. If you’re an up-and-coming cook in the city, this is something you need to get involved with, because where else are you going to get the chance to hang with some of the best and brightest (and biggest employers) in town? If you’re thinking about a career as a chef, this training will be invaluable. And if you’re a talented amateur who wants to hang with the big boys, this is your chance.

Anyway, we now have a fully online version of the application available. All you need to do is fill it out, hit the “submit” button at the bottom and you’ll be in the mix for one of the ten slots available this first term.

Simple enough? Good. Then just click on the link below and get started.

COOK Masters Series online application [Official Site]
COOK Masters Series class schedule and information [Foobooz]

UPDATED Aspiring Chefs: Get Trained By Vetri, Solomonov, Perrier and More

Posted by Jason Sheehan on October 8th, 2012

UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, we’ve already been getting questions from folks about this new program. One of the big ones? How much is it going to cost. I can now tell you that we just heard from COOK and they have decided that the 10 students chosen for the 1st semester of the COOK Masters Program will be going FOR FREE. Yup, you read it right: 20 hours of instruction by the city’s best chefs, and it ain’t gonna cost you a penny.

This is going to be huge.

No, seriously. For all of you cooks out there–for all of you apprentices, stagiers, externs, students and passionate amateurs, all of you up-and-comers, all of you line dogs aspiring for something more, all of you broke-ass, bone-tired, hard-working, up-by-your-bootstraps white jackets banging out 200 tables a night and reading cookbooks on the dock between dinner hits… Man, do I have some news for you.

Right now, as we speak, we here at Foobooz and the team at COOK are making plans for the first semester of the COOK Masters Program: A straight-up professional cooking school designed to give 10 lucky students the experience of a lifetime as they are personally trained by some of Philadelphia’s best and most successful chefs. Here’s the pitch:

After just one year and over five hundred cooking classes, COOK, Philadelphia’s premier demonstration kitchen, begins a new chapter with The COOK Masters Program: an instructional cooking series taught by some of the city’s and country’s biggest culinary names, for students who are truly passionate about pursuing a professional career in the restaurant industry.

And just wait until you hear who the instructors are going to be…

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COOK Masters Series: Online Application Now Being Accepted

UPDATED Aspiring Chefs: Get Trained By Vetri, Solomonov, Perrier and More