Food Academy, Professional Training Courses in English
A complete training to become a professionist in the Horeca world, with an international open mind
A joint venture with the School Academy in Milan
Courses 2018-2019
COOKING TRAINING
- Free lance/personal chefs: create your own brand, basic cooking, trendy, marketing and orientation
- Level 1 basic cooking course - fundamentals of cooking
- Level 2 Advanced cooking course for Chef exetucive
- Level 1 patisserie - basic course
- Mise en place & Food Photography workshop with smartphone
BUSINESS MARKETING
- How to organize an event-catering
- Marketing for Horeca Businesses - Communication with Social Media
COOKING WORKSHOP
- Finger food workshop
- Barista workshop
- Master chocolate workshop
- Backing with sourdough - bread workshop
- Gluten free workshop 1 & 2
- Vegan Workshop 1 & 2
Coming soon agenda
with schedules and details
POLICY
Antonella Food Academy wants to be an innovative and constantly evolving Academy: for the didactic offer and for the supplementary services it offers to the students with Job Opportunity.
The Job Opportunity service is a precious plus of which Antonella Food Academy can boast nationally and international.
Each student can choose a training-stage package from 6 months at the end of the course, and begin to work in real restaurants, patisserie, chefs clubs, events and catering companies.
We guarantee a successful support on CV editing and work research through selected portails, reserved alerts and job application to affiliated companies.
OUR CLIENTS
Our students are:
1. Young people approaching the world of work for the first time and looking for a specific orientation with real possibilities of job placement.
2. Adults who already working and intend to improve their skills, or people who want to retrain in view of a new or better placement.
3. Amateurs and passionate people who want to deepen knowledge and acquire technical information, to learn how to optimize management times and surprise their guests with professional preparations.
ABOUT US
Our founder, Antonella Barbella, is a passionate Italian chef who has worked in the Horeca for 20 years, with experience in events, catering, restaurants, show cooking with big brands, "sommelier" with Ais 3th level dipoloma, food writer and food blogger. Her inductive teaching method stimulates students creativity, ticling their abilities, bringing out inclinations and attitudes. The further holistic approach reinforces the acquisition of information, creating a favorable emotional balance for personal growth and interaction with the stress-free attitude at work. All the teachers are professionals in Horeca with many years of experience in restaurant and catering , also present in the FIC (Federation of Italian Chefs) as organizers of events representing Italian cuisine in the world.
FREE LANCE-PERSONAL CHEF TRAINING, CREATE YOUR OWN BRAND
Cooking, marketing and orientation with internships in Milan and international stage by restaurants, catering, events
- 11 days
- 90 hours course in Amsterdam
- Stage* 100 hours in a restaurant/catering event in Milan or Amsterdam (location chosen by the student)
Our students
For business integration in the market of professional chefs, for who wants to create their own personal brand, or work in the world of free lance agency or in restarant around the world.
What we teach
Business planning, ideation and creation of the brand, study of the positioning of the service, marketing and social media. Guided visits between producers and cash & carry searcvhing quality products.
Cooking lessons and mise en place, including Italian classics, bakery, pastry, fresh pasta, meats, fish, finger food, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and lactose-free, food trends, diets, food allergies and religious needs.
We will focus on the trends between Amsterdam and Milan, making a comparison of the market with guided tours.
Certificate
- Diploma of participation in the Antonella Academy courses with frequency protocol
- Exame from FIC chefs (Federation Italianc Chefs)
- Card registration with FIC,
Italian chefs federation and participation to some international events in Europe as stage
- Support to achieve HACCP online diploma in NL
PROGRAM
Training in Amsterdam
1 Presentation of the course + workshop for a successful project.
2 Marketing and managment: analysis of international markets and free lance chef.
3 Marketing and planning: Create an event - catering
4 Marketing: Social media and vlogging, text and video for soclia media (how to introduce yourself)
5 Marketing: Create your website
6 Presentation in a foreign market / theoretical lessons
7 Laboratory of fresh pasta
8 Laboratory of sauces and sauces
9 Laboratory fish
10 Laboratory vegetable & eggs
11 Laboratory meat
12 Visit local farms and producers
13 Laboratory patisserie
14 Visit Dutch and Italian cash & carry suppliers
15 Laboraroty finger food
16 Laboratory vegan, gluten-free and raw food
17 Fusion cooking workshop
18 Dutch cooking workshop: classic recipes
19 Stage in an Italian restaurant in Holland
20 Event tour by a local producer
21 Exams & diploma
Duration and costs
- 11 lessons in 6 months
- 2 lessons per month in Amsterdam
- 100 hours stage by one of our newtwork connection, choosing in our network in Italy and Holland.
- € 1.850 tax inlcuded.
Price enclued:
Central location for the lessons in Amsterdam well connected with public transportation.
Professional teachers with experience
Video as part of personal CV for each student
Italian authentic excellent fresh products
Guided tour by a local producer
All the material for the coaching encluded recipes and marketing and managment advices
Personalized apron
Final cleaning after cooking
* The stage is an addictional service we create for the students to get them into the market and offer them job opportunity. They can choose to go for Amsterdam or Milan, with their own costs.
BASIC COOKING TRAINING - LEVEL 1
- 56 hours Amsterdam + 100 hours stage
- Stage* in Amsterdam or Milano by restaurants or catering events (location chosen by the student)
Our students
For cooking lovers, for those who already know how to juggle the kitchen but would like to learn the basics and the secrets of the ingredients reactions, deepening different topics.
What we teach
A fascinating journey in fresh ingredients and authentic recipes full of specific and professional information.
Meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, fresh fruit, nuts, sweeteners, flours, yeasts, spices.
In our inductive courses we start the lessons directly in the kitchen, with a 360-degree sensory experience: watching, touching, sniffing.
Certificate
- Diploma of participation in the Antonella Academy courses with frequency protocol
- Exame from FIC chefs (Federation Italianc Chefs)
- Card registration with FIC,
Italian chefs federation and participation to some international events in Europe as stage
- Support to achieve HACCP online diploma in NL
Course lesson in Amsterdam
1. Fresh pasta: tagliatelle, ravioli, tortellini, potato gnocchi, passatelli
2. Rice, cereals and legumes and sauces: risotto, farrotto, lentils, chickpeas, tomato sauce, meat sauce, béchamel
3. Sauces, fonds and creams: brown fond, stock, comics, mayonnaise, cold and hot sauces
4. Meat: beef, chicken, turkey, pork. Cut, fillet, braise, juicy meats
5. Fish and molluscs: dislodge, fillet, baking, saute ', in a pan, in the oven
6. Vegetables: fry, grill, stew, bake, flans, flan, gateaux
7. Eggs: omelettes, crepes, savory pies, rustic finger food
8. Bread and focaccia: yeast and sourdough, bread, focaccia, soft and crunchy preparations
9. Basic patisserie: Italian classics: traditional recipes, cakes, chocolate cake, cannoli
10.Single-portion pastry: mousse, pannacotta, semifreddos, zabaione
11. Haccp and marketing for Horeca: raw materials and cleaning, smart storage, to manage a restaurant
12. Shopping tour: visiting a selection of suppliers to get the best quality.
13. Exame and diploma
Duration and costs
11 evening lessons of 4 hours on Monday, time 19:00 - 22:00 with take away of the preparation + 1 day tour + 1 day examen en diploma
€ 2.500 tax inlcuded.
* The stage is an addictional service we create for the students to get them into the market and offer them job opportunity. They can choose to go for Amsterdam or Milan, with their own costs.
PASTRY COURSE
- 56 hours Amsterdam + 100 hours stage
- Stage in Italy by patisserie: Abruzzo or Sicily
Our students
For lovers of alchemy in the kitchen who want to learn the basics of pastry, without necessarily becoming professionals in the field.
What we teach
For those who would like to learn the basics and secrets of the reactions of the ingredients, deepening different topics: pastry, leavened, puff pastries, creams, biscuits, decorations of small creations and cakes, chocolate, icing and bagne.
In our inductive courses we start the lessons directly in the kitchen, with a 360-degree sensory experience: watching, touching, sniffing. A fascinating journey full of personal and professional improvements.
Certificate
- Diploma of participation in the Antonella Academy courses with frequency protocol
- Exame from FIC chefs (Federation Italianc Chefs)
- Card registration with FIC,
Italian chefs federation and participation to some international events in Europe as stage
- Support to achieve HACCP online diploma in NL
1. Puff pastry: millefeuille, croissants, sfogliatelle abruzzesi, voulevant
2. Shortbread: pies, bocconotto, sweet and savory tartlets
3. Leavened dough: treccie, donuts, sweet Danube, chocolate sandwiches
4. Sponge cake: vanilla cake, lemon, chocolate, rolls and soft sheets
5. Creams: coffee custard, fruit cream, raw creams
6. Cake design: sac-a poche decorations - sugar paste
7. Salty pastry: brise 'salata, tartellette, mousse, fried
8. Small pastry: choux, bigne, baba', cannoli, cupcake
9. Biscuits: cantucci, anicini, bull's eye, baci di dama, biscuits with butter
10. Semifreddos: Italian cheesecake, charlotte, wild berry cupolas
11. Chocolate: temper chocolate, chocolates and bon bon
12. Shopping and semi-finished products: ingredients and preparations + tour by a supplier
13. Examen and diploma
Duration and costs
- 13 evening lessons of 4 hours on Monday, time 19:00 - 22:00 with take away of the preparation
- € 2.500 tax inlcuded.