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Texas Culinary Academy

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Texas Culinary Academy is unique among Texas cooking schools by offering Le Cordon Bleu degree and certificate programs. TCA programs are structured to ensure that students are exposed to a diversified education in culinary arts with the perfect blend of general education classes to broaden their awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and values.
• TCA maintains a commitment to quality instruction, facilities and student development that separates us from other cooking schools. Our classes are taught by professional chefs that provide insight and real-world experience. At Texas Culinary Academy, we are proud of the atmosphere of professionalism and mutual respect we have created. To encourage creative expression within our culinary learning environment, classes are limited in size. This allows us to provide the exemplary training Le Cordon Bleu is known for and allows students to receive the personal attention they deserve from our experienced instructors. Our classrooms and labs are outfitted with industry-current equipment in order to emulate real-world situations and give students the skills they need to succeed.
• Our specialized classes cover everything from basic cooking skills to the art of butchering to purchasing and cost control. Texas Culinary Academy offers students both Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Program and Le Cordon Bleu Patisserie & Baking Program.
• Texas Culinary Academy is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• A meal at The Iron Horse is a ticket to a feast (The Kansas City Star)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 04:15:55 am
  The Iron Horse bills itself as “an American bistro,” and the concept fits. In France, a bistro is usually a small, informal neighborhood joint specializing in a limited menu of home-style classics.
• Messages in a bottle: The mystique of the restaurant wine list (Austin American-Statesman)
  posted on October 6, 2009 at 06:31:54 pm
  Ordering wine in a restaurant can make you feel like Steve Martin in "The Jerk": "Bring us some fresh wine. No more of this old stuff."
• Festival covers Salado in chocolate, wine (Killeen Daily Herald)
  posted on September 28, 2009 at 09:54:19 am
  SALADO – It seemed that all of Salado was chocolate-covered this weekend – and not vending-machine chocolate but high-dollar varieties that go well with red wine.
• Dirty Projectors, Mike Posner Fill Holes in ACL Sunday (Austinist)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 10:20:29 pm
  The Sunday ACL schedule got two new holes last week after Sonic Youth and Marva Wright canceled. Today, ACL announces their replacements, Dirty Projectors and Mike Posner .
• Rain, Rockstar Yumminess and Wrong-way Driving [Extra Extra] (Austinist)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 10:20:19 pm
  me and the sysop/Flickr Some local students see President Obama’s stay-in-school message. Some don’t. “Ike Dike” proposed in Galveston. This Dike would extend Galveston’s seawall by 50 miles and create a job for a Little Dutch Boy who’d save the city in case of malfunction! Do you get your own page in the yearbook for this? Would you want one? A 14 year-old Dallas driver led cops on a wrong-way ...

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