{"id":1960,"date":"2009-08-24T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/children-with-knives\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:27:53","slug":"children-with-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/24\/children-with-knives\/","title":{"rendered":"Children With Knives"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Where Little\u00a0Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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\u00c1ngel Franco\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

Emily Rios, director of the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, demonstrating how to make pastelitos. “Being prepared is half the battle in terms of keeping their attention,” she said.\u00a0More Photos ><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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By ANN FARMER<\/p>\n

Published: August 18, 2009<\/p>\n

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By the time lunch was over, flour coated all the workstations at the culinary school in Brooklyn. Shards of dough stuck to the surfaces. And a dozen or more flat yellow blobs festooned the floor \u2014 each indicating the spot where a chickpea had rolled off the table and been squished by the foot of a cook in training.<\/p>\n

Whether any of the students learning how to debone a chicken or slice\u00a0cheese<\/a>\u00a0for a Spanish pastry will ever oversee the kitchen of one of New York\u2019s culinary temples is impossible to tell.<\/p>\n

After all, the students are between 5 and 11 years old.<\/p>\n

For the last nine weeks, more than 100 children have been slicing, measuring and baking at Creative Cooks, a children\u2019s cooking school in Boerum Hill that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Where Little\u00a0Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing \u00c1ngel Franco\/The New York Times Emily Rios, director of the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, demonstrating how to make pastelitos. “Being prepared is half the battle in terms of keeping their attention,” she said.\u00a0More Photos > By ANN FARMER Published: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}