There is a most unfortunate prejudice on campus between the Baking Students and the Culinary Students. CIA offers two majors: Culinary Arts (cooking-- meat, vegetable, starch, savory cookery) and Baking and Pastry Arts (baking--cookies, breads, tarts, pies, chocolates, sugar sculptures). It is one of the first questions you ask when you meet someone new on campus: "Culinary or Baking?" Sometimes Culinary students will tease Bakers for not working as hard, or taking too many breaks, and sometimes the Bakers will tease Culinary for not knowing anything about baking while they know how to cook steak. Of course when I say tease, I really mean use offensive language and get quite nasty, but tease is really more appropriate because its about as immature as teasing. The thing is we both need each other and neither is inferior.
As a Culinary student, I especially appreciate the Bakers when one lives in my room and gives me treats like the Maple Pecan ice cream above. De-licious.
I trust they used real maple syrup in this concoction - did you share with her that your grandpa used to make his own maple syrup in the Berkshires of Massachusetts?
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