Dusit Thani College partners with Japanese culinary institute to offer ‘kaiseki’ course
Dusit Thani College has partnered with the Tsuji Culinary Institute, a leading cooking school in Japan, in offering a crash course in traditional kaiseki cuisine, with the venture featuring a great chef from the institute passing on handy tips on selecting seasonal ingredients and applying special cooking methods and procedures.
Interested persons may enrol for the course, or request more details, before it commences in January.
Dusit Thani College’s management is confident that the course will be warmly welcomed, given the ongoing popularity of Japanese food as well as the course’s practical use in terms of occupational and cooking-skills improvement, and the success guaranteed by a great number of excellent chefs that have been produced by the institute and supplied to major hotels and restaurants around the world, it said on Monday.
Sarote Phornprapha, president of the college and director of Dusit Education Thailand Operations, where quality workers have been created for the tourism and hospitality industry for 24 years, said the college had secured a partnership deal with the Tsuji Culinary Institute for running a crash course in traditional Japanese kaiseki (or kaiseki-ryori) cuisine for the general public.
Analogous to western haute cuisine at high-level establishments, kaiseki is all about preparing a multi-course meal by selecting seasonal ingredients, applying special cooking methods and procedures and serving the meal in the traditional order and style.
“We are very pleased with this close cooperation with the institute. It is a high-profile culinary school with more than five decades’ presence and five branches in Japan and France where a lot of excellent chefs have been produced before they are supplied to leading hotels and restaurants around the world, which guarantees its success,” Sarote said.
The core essence of Japanese cuisine, despite its wide popularity, is not something that is easy to grasp.
This is especially true for kaiseki, a classy Japanese cuisine that involves the blending of seasonal ingredients with artistic components, with a dedicated focus on taste, colour, order of serving, flavour and intensity, to render a multi-course meal with striking appearances. Interested persons should therefore take this great opportunity to take the crash course, he added.
