Bartender Course

Description
This training course in “Mediterranean Cooking” offers an advanced knowledge of Italian Cuisine. It is divided into lessons with recipes that change with the seasons and it will be conducted in a typical Italian environment. This kind of course includes practical lessons, seminars, field works, thinking tools, cultural visits, technical visits, conferences with experts. The participants will also receive the didactic material needed and certificates as requested in Erasmus Plus Programme.

Objectives

• To give participants an all-around preparation regarding all Italian food sector.
• To educate people at healthy food.
• To improve the Italian techniques applied in food sector.
• To learn how to prepare simple Italian food
• To stimulate entrepreneurship

Methodology: In the framework of Erasmus Plus Programme, we are going to develop our courses based in both formal and informal education methodologies. We’ll try to develop the active participation of all participants involved. In order to stimulate the active participation of them we will use dynamic activities, like : conferences with responsible staff of enterprises; discussions in the classroom with directors of private institutes; direct lessons; technical visits in private companies   for job shadowing and workshops.

Program 

1^st Day:  Transfer from the airport to accommodation and room allocation. Daily evaluation. Rules applicable in Italy, information about the city and general information about the Programme. Presentation of the Italian education system, meeting with an Italian Language teacher and with an Italian chef .

2^nd Day: Visiting the best restaurant in Nicotera, taking information about product of the Mediterranean diet. Meeting with some housewives, who will work together by teaching you the love and passion like in preparing food, like in the past. They’ll teach you the old methods for cooking pasta.

3^rd Day: Information about food standards to be applied in our country in order to understand the interrelationship between individual lifestyle and environmental effects at a global level.  Housewives will teach how to prepare Pizza.

4^th day: Visit the Catering Public School. Explaining the Italian Education Cooking Programmes used in the school.  Visit a big street market selling the best Mediterranean products.

5^th Day:  Training Course about high grade restaurants and hotels table service techniques.- Visit one Italian high grade hotel/restaurant, participants will learn some sophisticated Italian recipes from the creation of gourmet meals.

6^th Day: Meeting with housewives for a special lesson about local specialties of sweets including the preparation of particular cakes, pastries, etc…

7^th Day: Evaluation of the Training Course. Certificate Ceremony and overall evaluation meeting with the host organization and the beneficiaries. Preparation of final report of daily evaluations.