One Year & $150,000 later a Chef?

I saw a most …surprising offer on Abebooks.com.

Anyone who has thought it might be fun to work with celebrity chefs and spend a year in New Orleans has got to read this:

“Description: Spend a year in New Orleans. Free room and board. Have access to over 5,000 cookbooks and learn the inside of world cuisines, have all of your culinary questions answered, learn how to open and run a successful restaurant, hotel, catering company, bakery culinary school and/or cookbook store. One on one instruction in whatever you want/need to learn from a half century of experience.Have one on one with local celebrity chefs. Learn menu and recipe writing, spice mixtures, the world of ethnic cooking, ingredients, knife skills, pastry, kitchen design. Applications now being accepted for 2007 screening. Only one apprentice chosen per year. Reservations and applications for future years considered, subject to availability. Full disclosure expected. Bookseller Inventory # 000059″

Sounds like a great deal of fun…. for those who have a spare $150k….

Roger Freberg

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