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Linda Carucci
The former dean of the California Culinary Academy (also her alma mater) for the past thirty years, Linda Carucci has enjoyed a celebrated career as a culinary instructor of both c...mehr sehenThe former dean of the California Culinary Academy (also her alma mater) for the past thirty years, Linda Carucci has enjoyed a celebrated career as a culinary instructor of both chefs-in-training and home cooks of all levels.
Besides cooking in and managing restaurants, Carucci has operated her own cooking school and catering business and has worn many hats in the culinary world, including as live-in private chef for a prominent San Francisco family and stagire with Lidia Bastianich at Felidia restaurant in New York.
Chef Carucci served as Julia Child Curator of Food Arts at COPIA in Napa Valley when the critically acclaimed first edition of her Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks was published in 2005. The book received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for both James Beard and Julia Child First Book Awards. Now, four printings and forty thousand copies later, Carucci is pleased to present this second edition in two updated formats: a print copy in larger type and a new eBook version.
Among her accolades, Carucci is the winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cooking Teacher of the Year Award. She was recently named Educator of the Year by Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, and she has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Professional Food Society.
Carucci earned a masters degree in education and a level-2 certificate from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. The granddaughter of an Italian cheese maker, she was raised in New England and now lives in Oakland, California, where she gives private cooking lessons. She teaches avocational cooking classes in San Francisco Bay Area cooking schools and beyondlook for her calendar of cooking classes at www.cookingschoolsecrets.com.weniger sehen