CUL 201 The Home Cook: Savory & Sweet

This online course is designed for novice cooks interested in exploring dual worlds of taste in home cooking: savory and sweet.  Students will be introduced to cooking techniques, each of which can be executed in either sweet or savory modes.  The techniques involved are solid, basic and everyday family type cooking techniques and teach students to prepare the same basic dishes in both modes in order to develop their palates and their ability to distinguish tastes.  Students will read and research weekly resource materials and be required to complete weekly cooking assignments in addition to participating in class sharing and discussion.  This obviously means that a kitchen for cooking is readily available for all the assignments.  While the course does not have a lab fee or textbook, ordinary foodstuffs and kitchen supplies, and some purchase of food will be required to complete the assignments.  Weekly shopping lists are posted on the course Canvas site.  However, since students will be able to share and eat what they cook, it will be well invested.  All ingredients will be easily available from local supermarkets and no special or unusual equipment is required.