Use the following link to let the Napa County Library assist you in finding a job.

http://www.countyofnapa.org/library/lifeworks/

The Culinary School offers a structured hands-on food service training program. It provides mentoring, teaches job and life skills, and challenges students to take charge of their lives. Some of the skills taught at the School include:

• Kitchen Safety & Sanitation
• Equipment & Knife Usage
• Cooking Principles & Techniques
• Produce, Meat, Fish & Supplies
• Stocks, Soups, & Sauces
• Menu Planning & Recipes

Applications for Class Five of the Culinary School will be accepted until June 1, 2010. Class Five begins June 7^th.

Excerpt:

"Michael Paik teaches the culinary program through Community Action Napa Valley, or CANV, which gives homeless and low income people an introduction to the food service industry.

Give a man a fish and he eats one time. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

Thinking along similar lines, Michael Paik, a veteran chef, has committed himself to teaching kitchen skills to homeless and other low-income people in Napa County who are having trouble feeding themselves, not to mention putting a roof over their heads. When the students graduate from Paik’s three-month culinary course, they are equipped to get self-supporting, entry level jobs in Napa Valley restaurants."

Read the full article at the Napa Register site...