Channel: Boston University

Category: News & Politics

Tags: groce pépin culinary innovation laboratorymetropolitan collegemet programs in food & winebu food & winedemo kitchenboston universityjulia childjacques pépinrebecca alssidbu gastronomy

Description: Our video takes you behind the scenes of Metropolitan College’s newly renovated Groce Pépin Culinary Innovation Laboratory and the 16-stove professional kitchen where MET culinary art students hone their craft. After more than $200,000 in renovations, the demo kitchen now boasts gleaming stainless steel appliances, high-tech overhead cameras, and wall-mounted monitors that provide students with multiple angles for viewing cooking demonstrations. The new technology also enables students to tune into demos from afar. Not far from the kitchen's central island, tucked into the right corner of the space as you enter, is the desk where Julia Child (Hon.’76), acclaimed author of The Art of French Cooking and host of several television shows, penned many of her best-selling cookbooks. The desk commemorates the program's three founders—Child, Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11), and Rebecca Alssid, longtime program administrator—whose portraits rest atop the desk. After creating MET’s Programs in Food & Wine in 1989, the trio went on to establish the Gastronomy Program at Metropolitan College in 1991, the first academic program of its kind in the United States. Read more about the Groce Pépin Culinary Innovation Laboratory renovations and the history of the space here: bu.edu/articles/2022/groce-pepin-culinary-innovation-lab Learn more about MET’s Programs in Food & Wine here: bu.edu/foodandwine Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: @Boston University Follow BU on Twitter: spr.ly/6001K3EZU Follow BU on Instagram: spr.ly/6009K3EwR #Food #Culinary #BehindTheScenes #BostonUniversity