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Cooking Safely for a Crowd

Description

You may be a good cook, but cooking for a crowd is different. Where do you store all that food? How do you keep the cold foods cold? When is the food completely cooked? How long can you leave the serving tray on the buffet table? Let us teach you!

Who should attend a Cooking for a Crowd workshop?

Anyone who volunteers to help plan, prepare, serve, or otherwise handle food at a large group event. This may be the funeral lunches you serve, the pancakes breakfasts, the parish dinners, community meals, county fair or festival booths, banquets, or maybe your own child's graduation party or a family reunion.

What will I learn?

There is a lot to learn about how to plan, prepare, and serve food in quantities as well as how to make sure the food is safe. It is scary to think about people getting sick from your meal, but it can and does happen. Each year, millions of people suffer from foodborne illness. While foodborne illness can be as mild as a stomach ache, it can also be fatal.

Examples of topics discussed:

  • Planning the quantity food occasion
  • Culprits of foodborne illness: how does bacteria grow?
  • Personal hygiene for safe food: handwashing
  • Cross contamination
  • Time and temperatures
  • Storing food supplies
  • Preparing quantity food
  • Keeping food safe when holding and serving
  • Handling the leftovers

Don't take a chance, come and learn what you can do to help keep the food safe when you are "Cooking for a Crowd!"

Who teaches the workshops?

All Cooking Safely for a Crowd workshops are taught by University of Minnesota Regional Extension Educators in Food Science.

Attend this Workshop!

  • Cooking Safely for a Crowd
    Location: Remer/Longville School, Remer, MN
    Date: April 8, 2008
    Time: 6- 9 PM
    Registration fee: $15 per person


  • Cooking Safely for a Crowd
    Location: Sebeka Methodist Church, Sebeka, MN
    Date: April 10, 2008
    Time: 6:30-9:30 PM
    Registration fee: $15 per person


  • Cooking Safely for a Crowd
    Location: Main Street Government Center, Long Prairie, MN
    Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
    Time: 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
    Regeistration fee: $15 per person, due April 10

Questions? Contact

Connie Schwartau

 
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