Air Force One flight attendants will soon be using the Sous Chef™ as part of their training. The Sous Chef™, by KP Culinary Educational Systems, is a computer-based culinary arts education tool designed to enhance food service training.

               “Edwards Air Force Base is the site of a new Air Force school of flight attendant training,” said Jim Murray, director of sales and marketing at KP. “Two current Air Force One flight attendants visited our booth at the National Restaurant Show and thought our product would work well in the new program.”

          The Sous Chef™ is a complete system for teaching culinary skills. It contains more than 250 videos explaining and demonstrating all areas of cooking and food preparation.  It also has 850 text pages and over 1,000 photos/diagrams/illustrations.  All of this material can be viewed on classroom monitors or screen projectors, or it can be accessed by individual students.

           Because the Sous Chef™ was written and produced based on decades of classroom and teaching experience, it is designed to offer “in the classroom” support to instructors who have a broad spectrum of experience and culinary skills, according to Murray.   “Food service is just one part of flight attendant training, so the Sous Chef™ will be an excellent resource to expose the students to a number of basic concepts they need to understand.”

           Many more advanced techniques and styles of food preparation are also covered in the Sous Chef, Murray added. “This could be especially helpful in training like this, where the attendant or other student may not need to be expert in a technique or presentation, but they do need to have some familiarity with it.”