How is this class different from your other classes? Caylee Tannahill is the BHS Culinary teacher. This year she has a new class called Baking and Pastry.
“A Lot of students tend to gravitate toward either liking baking or cooking more, this allows students the opportunity to really focus on the specific area they like the best,” Tannahill said.
Tannahill has been an educator at BHS for 2 years. She started Baking and Pastries this year because students tend to favor baking or cooking more so it’s a way to expand your experience. The recommended class to take first is culinary essentials but after that it’s really up to the students to decide what they would like to do.
“In Baking and Pastry we will cover a really wide range of recipes,” Tannahill said. “We will make different types of breads, croissants, macarons, learn to make espresso, and so much more.”
In the class she teaches students how to make a large range of new recipes. Tannahill says the main difference between her culinary and Baking and Pastries is the type of cooking that will be done.
“The main difference between Baking and Pastries 1 & 2 and culinary 1 & 2 is just the type of cook we’re doing,” Tannahill said. “Culinary we do a lot of classic French cuisine and cooking methods (mainly savory dishes), whereas Baking and Pastries is mainly, well, baking different types of pastries and such.”
In order to gain her class Baking and Pastries she asked about adding the class, and taught it during student teaching and taught it at her previous school. As a result she has around 23 students enrolled.
Last year she taught culinary classes every hour besides the 1st and 2nd hour. This year she teaches culinary classes and baking and pastry classes every hour except for the first hour of the day.