(Mike Faraday) writes:

>From: (Mike Faraday)
>Newsgroups: rec.food.baking
>Subject: Please help settle a husband-wife argument !!
>Date: 18 Apr 2004 20:00:25 -0700
>
> My wife age 48 has a passion for baking and pastry making. She
> would like to enroll in a 18 month culinary school.
.. . .


The Boston Globe just did a food feature story on culinary schools
and the demand for their graduates.

It's still available online at:
http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articl...t_to_be_a_chef

There is also a companion story which ran the same day and is about
high school kids who are preparing to go on to college-level culinary
programs:
http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articl..._students_at_t
he_stove/

(You may have to cut-and-paste to get this long links onto one line in
your web browser.)

Unfortunately, the tabular comparison of several culinary programs is not
available from the Globe's online site. If MrsBear has not tossed it out,
I'll try to locate it and post the information. It compared tuition
costs, length of program, average graduate salary, percent of students
placed in jobs, etc.

Cheers,
The Old Bear