Haley Goodwin did her senior project on French cuisine because she wants to be a chef and move to France one day. She prepared an apple tart, crepes, and mousse au chocolate to showcase French cooking. Through her research and cooking, she learned that chefs must understand different cultures' food in order to skillfully blend flavors from various countries. Haley believes her project helped her further explore her potential career path in culinary arts.

1. 1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
April 18th 2012
Judges, Senior Project
Creekview High School
1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
Dear Judges:
My name is Haley Goodwin, I did my project to learn more about French Cuisine
because I would like to have been a chef and move to France one day. I have always
wanted to be a chef because I found out there is so much art behind creating something
you would enjoy to eat. I want to move to France because I have always been fascinated
with French culture. When I took French class I figured out I enjoy the language but not
only that, I would want to learn more about the culture itself.
My senior project product is a French Cuisine consisting of an apple tart as the
appetizer, crêpes as my main course, and Mousse au Chocolate as my dessert. My French
cuisine relates to my research paper because it teaches you how to become a chef but also
gives you a feel on being a multicultural chef. Finding a good mixture and the right
recipe was one of the biggest obstacles I had because some of the types were to bizarre to
create. I went from many varieties of recipes till I finally found the right ones. I chose my
three favorites and they have had a very good outcome among people that have tried it.
Chefs need to be multicultural because in order to be a great chef you have to
know more than one cultures way to create food. You have to understand how each
cultures natural flavors mix together to create their natural dishes and be able to create
that and take one countries dish and mix it with another’s without conflicting flavors.
Being a chef is also a people person, you tend to get out more and learn about other
cultures history. It allows you as a person to grow more but gives you a new and fun
creative interest. In order to pursue this as a college career you need to go to a college
such as Art Institute of Atlanta which offers Culinary Arts classes.
I think for senior project it makes sense to do because it helps you research and
learn more about the career of your choice to be able to allow you to actually see if this is
something you want to pursue. I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule
to allow me to explain my project; I hope it had interested you about learning something
from the French culture.
Sincerely,
Haley Goodwin