{"id":559,"date":"2011-09-16T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2011-11-18T05:10:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T05:10:46","slug":"culinary-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Culinary Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110916-082235.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110916-082235.jpg\" alt=\"20110916-082235.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As some of you already know, I attended a month-long certificate program at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leiths.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leiths School of Food and Wine<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in London. I do consider myself a pretty decent cook in general, but I wanted to learn more about the technical aspects of cooking. I did know how to make breads, but I wanted to know exactly what happens with correct proportions of flour\/salt\/yeast. My cakes are pretty good in general, but once in a while they don&#8217;t work, and I wanted to know why. I supposed I could have learned all of this on my own, but it was great to have them all taught to me in a class environment.<\/p>\n<p>We had full days: 9:30 to 17:00 everyday, with food demonstrations for half the day and practical kitchen work the other half. We cooked everything from omelets to breads to pastas to profiteroles. It was a wonderful experience. I am now considering going back for the culinary diploma program sometime in the future. 6 more months basically. One drawback: We had wash all our dishes by hand!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yogafoodtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}