Are you requesting culinary degrees or experience?
Of course, we might spend a bit less time on for-profits' aspiring sous-chefs with pricey for-profit culinary degrees than on the frequent disaster of early, elementary and secondary education.
More and more schools are offering night classes, certificate programs, and full culinary degrees.
The tiny kitchen was a problem for Ms. Wolinetz, 34, who works in online advertising and also has a culinary degree.
He went to New York University part time, got a culinary degree and worked as a chef in a casino.
Mr. Eisenbud, 42, is a 1985 graduate of Johnson & Wales, but had never done much professionally with his culinary degree.
"One thing I liked is that the recipes are interesting," he added, "but you don't have to have an advanced culinary degree to prepare them".
Until recently, he cooked two or three times a month as an apprentice at Rover's, a distinguished Seattle restaurant, and then disappeared for three weeks to earn an advanced culinary degree from the esteemed La Varenne, in Burgundy.
Ms. Stanley, a trim, disarmingly frank woman in her 40s with a culinary degree and a pedagogic streak, is a tireless campaigner for her cause and has made a habit of dropping into restaurants as she travels around the city.
In Slidell, the little town north of here where Mr. Besh, 39, was raised and still lives, his culinary degree, European training and a cell phone full of high-powered numbers aren't all that important.
This is now the fifth New York restaurant in which the Torrisi fellows have celebrated Italian-American cuisine (including their Parm sandwich shop at Yankee Stadium), and they have, so far, been praised by critics for their invention and the culinary degree of difficulty.
