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“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting," said world renowned chef Thomas Keller. Being a chef is not just about having decent culinary skills; in fact, it’s an art to be mastered. Hence, learning the basics is the first step to being a great chef.

Choosing the right course forms the foundation of any chef’s career. Thus to make your life smoother we give you an array of courses listed below to choose from, before you embark on your journey to being chef.

Listed below are multifarious diplomas, certificate and degree courses to becoming Chef:

1. Craft Course Certificate in Food Production and patisserie offered at Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Goa.

2. Diploma in Chef's Management offered at Academy of Culinary Education, Cidade de Goa

3. Bachelor of Catering Technology & Culinary Arts offered at Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Culinary Arts, Habshiguda, Hyderabad

4. Costa Crociere Cruise Chef Course offered at Culinary Academy of India

5. Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Catering Management offered at IAM Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata

6. B.A in Culinary Manangement offered at IAM Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata

7. Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts offered at Culinary Academy of India, Hyderabad

Well! The story doesn’t end here. The secret to becoming a great chef is not just confined to

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studying right it lies in following your instinct, “Most important thing is that you believe in yourself and trust your instincts,” says famous chef Martin Yan.

The best way to go about it is following in the footsteps of an established chef after the completion of course, by assisting one. This will not only bestow an aspirant with practical knowledge but will give him utter confidence and will teach him the little secrets of striking it big while keeping it simple.

“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did,” says great American chef Gordon Ramsay.

Colleges offering Professional Chef Courses in India:

• The Taj Group's Institute of Hotel Management at Aurangabad

• Oberoi School of Hotel Management in New Delhi

• WelcomGroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration in Manipal

• Army Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology in Bangalore

• Oriental School of Hotel Management in Kozhikode

• Merit Swiss Asian School of Hotel Management in Ooty, Nilgiris

• IAM Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata

• Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Goa

• Academy of Culinary Education, Cidade de Goa

• Culinary Academy of India, Hyderabad

• Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai

• Indian Institute of Hotel Management and Culinary Arts, Habshiguda, Hyderabad 

• Cambay Institute of Hotel Management, Gandhinagar

Pre-requisites for admission process

• The eligibility for admission to a hotel management institution is 10 + 2 with the eligible percentage.

• You must appear for a two-hour entrance exam comprising English, Reasoning, General Science and General Knowledge.

• Then comes the group discussion and an interview round through which the applicant’s aptitude and personality is judged.

So if you have the passion for food, keep on striving and you may strike gold for they say “a bad dish leads to a better one.”

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