Worst College Course ever? A food-blogging class for $800

[Lost in CT]

Q&A with Steven Shaw on His Food Blogging Class at ICC

So Dean Richman and I created an outline and when we got it to the point where I was saying, you know, this would be a good class, we took it to the higher-ups at the International Culinary Center. After many months of meetings and revisions, the course was added to the Advanced Studies offerings.

What I'm hoping is that at least some students will choose to take both classes, for example they'll take my class in order to learn the nuts and bolts of blogging and then they'll take Dean Richman's class to help hone their writing. Or vice-versa.

So after all that work creating the course, I thought it was only fair for Dean Richman to come in as a guest speaker. The best part of all this is that after I appear in Dean Richman's classes he takes me to dinner at L'Ecole (the French Culinary Institute's restaurant) on the company's dime, and now when he appears in my class I'll be able to take him there. So we have really doubled down on the free meals at L'Ecole. (An even nicer fringe benefit is free bread from the FCI's baking classes.)


Words escape me here....

[MrCoffee]

1. You lost me at "Advanced Studies"

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

[Initech]

2. I once heard of one where they taught you how to play Street Fighter.

[Lost in CT]

3. Yeah but that has some real world use... no?