Topic: Becoming A Pastry Chef
EQ: What is the most important skill of a successful pastry chef?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Defining the Essential Question

(1) What is your EQ?

"What is the most important skill to have to become a successful pastry chef?"
(2) Define the words in your EQ to make sure we are on the same page regarding what your EQ means.
Skill is the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice,aptitude, etc., to do something well.
Successful is having attained a position, honors, or the like. 
Pastry chef  is a professional cook specializing in desserts and sweet baked goods.

(3) What are some possible answers to your EQ so far? 
Being detail-oriented, organized, creative, has managing skills, and people skills.

(4) What has been your most important source and why?  Be specific.  If it is a person, name them and what they do, if it is an article, book or video, name the title and author.  
My most important resource for now is an article called "Becoming a Pastry Chef" from ReluctantGourmet.com. It has given a very clear overview of how a pastry chef works and it gave me possible answers to my EQ.

1 comment:

  1. When you define the terms in your EQ, you should define them as they pertain you your discipline. What is a successful pastry chef? What are some of the skills needed?

    Your possible answers are very general. You will have to research the specific to your topic. Example: kneeding...proper techniques...what are those techniques...(that's a baker, of course, but you get my drift). I'm still being rather general in my answer, but I hope that gets you started.

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