School of Culinary Arts

The “New Mill,” or the School of Culinary Arts, is one of two functioning mills within the city walls, and serves as the headquarters for the Guild of Bakers and Cooks. Although some staffers at the Old Mill resented its construction, in truth the output from the New Mill isn’t high enough to make any competitive impact since New Mill is first and foremost an educational institution. Here the various skills of food preparation, from the grinding of grain and the storing of milk to the final spicing and steaming of an exotic dish, are well taught by expert cooks from across the Flanaess. The college is also the site of a great cooking competition at the end of Brewfest. The mill’s cellar sports a small slaughterhouse and ale-brewing facility.
Tuition at School of Culinary Arts is about double that of Grey College, for the teachers are paid well, as advanced students are in great demand around the Flanaess as highly paid master cooks. In addition, students pay for the materials they use in their studies, an amount that approaches the tuition amount. However, diligent but poor students can work off some of their school fees by putting in extra time in the mill, dairy, or slaughterhouse.
Students spend their first year here milking cows, grinding wheat and com, butchering pigs, and other unappetizing activities that are all necessary to the production of food. By the second year, many students begin to branch into one of the college’s specialty areas, though many others continue the entire course with the aim of getting a general culinary education. After three years, a student with passing marks is declared a Master in his chosen field.

Type

University / Educational complex

Parent Location

Clerkburg