Tag: Culinary arts

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Bake sale hosted by culinary students

Manuel Alvarez

Baked pastries, freshly baked breads, soups, sandwiches and various drink choices are available every Tuesday at the Del Mar Oso Creek campus from noon to 1 p.m. Chef Claudia Hurt, the main instructor for the bakery and pastry program, starts the sale by introducing the student chef in charge for the day. “This is Anem Gallegos. She picked the recipes and set up the planning for today’s sale,” she said at the Nov. 14 bake sale. “We have savory sweets, breakfast and lunch, sandwiches and soup.”  “This is similar to the student’s final exam,” Hurt said. “They are responsible for…

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The sweetest gift of all

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$100K donation honors late baker, teacher   As he helped unveil the cake-shaped check, Gus Cargile couldn’t help but think of his daughter. “Gary made all of my birthday cakes,” Cargile said of his daughter Gary Homan. When Cargile turned 95 this year Homan didn’t make his cake. She died in November 2016. As a result of Homan’s love for baking and DMC, an anonymous donation of $100,000 was made to the DMC Development Foundation in her honor on Nov. 8 at the Restaurant Management Building on West Campus with Homan’s family and friends. Homan started her own baking business in 1994…