New Kitchen Helps Train LMC Culinary Students

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Lake Michigan College has a new feature to help teach its culinary management students. A temporary kitchen, resembling a restaurant kitchen, is now up and running at the Napier Avenue campus. The board of trustees was given a tour this week. LMC VP of Academic Services Leslie Kellogg tells WSJM News the kitchen helps train students for the tourism industry in the region.

“Our region is an up and coming wine region, a tourist region, and good food is just part of the region and part of our economy here,” Kellogg said. “So, this program is a very good fit.”

LMC launched the culinary management program in 2013, and it now has about 60 students. The college also just hired a new chef to head the program. It’s hoped the college can soon build a new facility just to house the culinary program, along with the winemaking program. If the millage proposal passes, it would help.