If you can't stand the heat, get in the kitchen could have been the motto of kids who took a week out of the hot Arkansas summer to attend Culinary Camp at the Clinton Presidential Center. Second-year campers showed off their hard work to parents, friends and family at an end-of-camp reception at the center July 22.
The camp offers four skill levels. Level 2 campers spent the week learning more advanced knife skills, building on techniques they learned in Level 1, making their lunches and learning from professionals in the culinary field. If the young chefs stay in the program, led by Michael Selig and culinary staff at the center's restaurant Forty Two, they will continue to learn new skills, participate in food challenges and in the fourth year participate in a pop-up restaurant.
During the reception, students served Mexican, Italian and Asian dishes they had created that day. The evening ended with a slide show of photos taken during the week and the campers receiving a graduation certificate and a new filet knife.
-- Story and photos by Cary Jenkins
High Profile on 07/31/2016