A kosher chef walks into a kitchen…

It might sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but this summer, the stigma around “inferior” kosher cuisine might officially be put to bed. The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts in Brooklyn is teaming up with Kingsborough Community College to offer the first professional kosher cooking program in the US (following the Jerusalem Culinary Institute) and the first accredited kosher cooking program in the world.

Of course, there’s nothing inherently bad about kosher cooking – chefs like The Jew & The Carrot contributor, Laura Frankel, have proven that it can be truly sublime. And of course JCCs across the country offer worthy cooking classes for the home chef.  But until now, there has not been a school where kosher-keeping gastronomes could learn to professionally julienne, shock, or saute in the comfort of a kosher kitchen. On behalf of Jewish stomachs everywhere, The Jew & The Carrot salutes The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts. For more information about the program, click here.