L’École Culinaire – More Than “Just” a School

L’École Culinaire – More Than “Just” a School Last Thursday I had dinner at L’Ecole Culinaire’s Presentation Room on the Plaza. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a private cooking school with locations also in Memphis and St. Louis. They offer classes to us ordinary mortals as well (see our current wine contest for their wine class on February 12 th !) as well as degree classes and diplomas in culinary skills and restaurant management. Students do the cooking and baking as well as the serving and hosting. BUT, what I want to talk about is this dinner we had. Prepared and served by students, it was delicious and remarkably, and I mean remarkably, inexpensive. The charcuterie board was amazing, four or so different meats and pates, grilled bread, scallions, beets, couple of difference sauces – it was, truly, a meal for two all on its own. Seven bucks. Entrées were $12 and you could choose from five – a f...