Pizza University Expands to LA with California-Style Pizza Class
Pizza University & Culinary Arts Center , known for offering the most comprehensive pizza-making and pizza-business education in the industry will now offer classes in LA as well as Washington, DC. Named "California Pizza Dreamin" the course is designed and taught by award-winning Chef Glenn Cybulski on August 11-13, 2019.
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- California is probably one of the last places that most people think of when pizza-making is mentioned. Nonetheless, pizza has been an integral part of Californian cuisine as long as teenagers have been surfing the SoCal waves. As the years passed by and the culinary scene evolved, so did pizza. Everywhere from Northern California to LA experienced the new, upscale pizza trend that was started by creative California Chefs.
The California pizza boom began in the 1970s and 1980s when California's top chefs began creating gourmet pizzas with unique, fresh, and local ingredients. At that time, the thought of topping a pizza with Grilled Chicken, Red Onions and BBQ sauce was, well crazy! But through offering the pizzas at a new start-up, West Coast top chefs created a new style of pizza that is now one of the most popular in the world. The Pizza University's first West Coast class will be taught by Chef Glenn Cybulski, who grew up in Marin County in the middle of the fast paced 80's.
Chef Glenn fell in love with baking fresh bread and creating what he called "Cal-Ital pizza" with crispy chewy crust topped with ingredients such as Dungeness Crab, fried Abalone, fresh seasonal ingredients and more. This was the beginning of his 3-decade long love affair in creating California-Style Pizza. With several awards under his belt, Chef Glenn has over 30 years of restaurant experience, stretching from kitchens in Italy to California. He has owned 11 restaurants in Northern California and has also consulted on over 50 other restaurant concepts. Today, Glenn is CEO of Persona, with 7 current franchise locations & several more in the process of opening.
In the Pizza University & Culinary Arts Center's inaugural 3-day "California Pizza Dreamin'" Course, Chef Glenn will take students on a hands-on journey of learning how to create amazing Ancient Grain California-Style Dough as well as his "Cali Pinza" recipe. Students will also learn his award-winning techniques in creating fresh sauces and topping combinations that will give attendees a whole new insight on creating new pizzas in their pizzerias and businesses.
The "California Pizza Dreamin" course also features special industry guests who will share fresh products that only California is known for. Everything from coastal seafood specialties to venison and wild boar sausage will be used. In addition to the syllabus, attendees will receive a Pizza University chef coat, Certification (Certificate of Completion) a California-Style Pizza study guild a recipe book of all the pizzas and their components that you learn working side by side with Chef Glenn.
For more information, to register for the class, or to schedule media interviews, please contact Mary Fabiano, Director, Pizza University & Culinary Arts Center by calling (301) 937-1003 or email m.fabiano(at)pizzauniversity(dot)org.
SOURCE Pizza University
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