On 2011-09-26, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> At the CIA you spend some months in the classroom before touching a knife
> and they teach menu planning and finance. It would help, but not be like a
> real life business. You have to get your hands dirty.

And not necessary. When A. Bourdain went to CIA, it was a piddling
$10-15K, total. Now it's more like $80K+. The kicker is, the guy who
replaced him at Les Halles as executive chef worked up from food
flunky jes working at the restaurant for 8 yrs. Didn't cost a cent.
In fact, he made money the whole time.

nb