News from the School
If You Wish to Make a Professional Career in Culinary A New Course Starts at MSA “the School of Culinary”!
Culinary Arts Academy (MSA), the first and only vocational school in Turkey approved by the Ministry of Education and granting an international diploma on Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery, opens new business opportunities for its students. MSA’s new courses on “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Programs” starting on September the 20th is designed for the ones who would like to make a career in a professional kitchen and is keen on having a vocational education in effective and international standards.
MSA creates unique opportunities for people who wish to make a career or feel like changing their career, with its Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery courses which provide new business opportunities and enlivens the aspiration of entrepreneurs. As much as for the ones who wish to acquire a career, MSA offers also new opportunities to people who wish to add a new path to their business life, with the “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Programs” completed in 5 months followed by a 3-month internship in 5 starred hotel and restaurants.
The 8-month lasting “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Courses” of MSA, who applies the curriculum of City & Guilds, the international vocational body of the British Royal Academy, will start as 3 different programs consisting of morning, afternoon and week-end packages. The first 5 months of this 8-months program will comprise applied courses in professional kitchens, and the last 3 months will be completed as internship in the best five-star hotels and restaurants, to finally be ready to enter the business world MSA provides its graduates.
Students trained at MSA have also the opportunity to meet the worldly famous foreign chefs hosted by MSA. Mickael Azouz the World Chocolate Champion, Jean-François Deguignet the executive pastry chef of worldly known culinary school Le Cordon Bleu, Adam Melonas one of the pioneers in Progressive Cuisine, and Erez Komarovsky the world celebrity executive chef in bakery, are only some of the prominent Chefs MSA has invited recently, to bring them together with MSA’s professional students and the sector’s spokesmen...
A significant advantage offered by MSA is that the Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery students are having one-to-one trainings by the prominent “guest chefs” who are invited to MSA, according to the program topics students have selected. For example, London Nobu’s ex-chef Hiroki Takemura, who is currently working at Sunset, comes to MSA to personally teach the MSA students on sushi courses. Furthermore, during the education programs, students are taken to diverse industrial trips such as, visits to Etçi’s integrated meat facility, organic farms, or Electrolux Professional providing detailed instructions on professional kitchen equipments, which offer valuable opportunities for students in their future career life.
Ever since its establishment in 2004, more than 2000 graduates of MSA are currently promoting their career in prominent hotels and restaurants such as Les Ottomans, Four Seasons, Swissotel, Sunset, Ulus 29, and Papermoon. MSA graduates are also granted the opportunity of working or acquiring advanced education abroad via MSA’s City & Guilds accredited diplomas valid as Europass. MSA students and graduates have also the possibility of working or doing their internship at famous restaurants such as Jamie’s Italian in London, or Mama Shelter in Paris.
You have to hurry to be able to participate into the “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Courses” which are designed to satisfy people who desire to make a career in Culinary. Please apply as soon as possible to the September Professional Cookery course with a capacity of 150 students and the Professional Pastry-Bakery course limited to 55 students!
Detailed information on the courses can be obtained from the website www.msa.tc
or by calling 0212 290 35 50 / 444 9 MSA
The New Endeavor Entrepreneur: Mehmet Aksel the founder of Culinary Arts Academy (MSA)
The new Endeavor Entrepreneurs of 35th International Election Panel of Endeavor held in Turkey have been selected. During the election consisting of 18 high-levelled managers, entrepreneurs, business leaders and investor panellists from 12 different countries, 8 candidates out of 14 entrepreneurs have been selected as the new Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Mehmet Aksel, the founder of Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) was among the entrepreneurs representing Turkey.
Endeavor Turkey, founded by prominent names of the Turkish business world with the purpose of transforming the economies of emerging markets by identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs, was the host of this year’s Endeavor 35th International Election Panel. 21 entrepreneurs representing 14 different companies from 4 countries were evaluated at the International Election Panel held between 13-15 June 2010. One of the selected entrepreneurs was Mehmet Aksel, the founder of Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) Turkey’s first and only culinary school affiliated to the worldly prominent vocational body City&Guilds.
Among the panellists from Turkey were Ali Koç (Koç Holding) and Ebru Özdemir (Limak Holding), as the Board Members of Endeavor Turkey, and Osman Ünsal (Esas Holding) as Endeavor Consulting Member. The prominent international panellists were Arif Naqvi Abraaj Capital Limited’s Founder and Chairman of the Board, Fadi Ghandour Aramex International’s Founder and CEO, Richard Hamermesh Professor of Harvard Business School.
Among the selected Endeavor Entrepreneurs was Mehmet Aksel, the founder of Culinary Arts Academy Turkey granting international diplomas, Balkan Horse-riding and Turkey Car Sports Champion, who displays his target-oriented and passionate character with the projects he develops in the vocational education field. Mehmet Aksel’s dream is to promote vocational education and provide people with new and marketable vocational skills. His school Culinary Arts Academy, established in view of that, has already been acknowledged as one of Europe’s best culinary school providing educational courses for professionals, valuable international diplomas, and internship and business opportunities.
http://www.endeavor.org/
The first International Certificated Bartending Qualification in Turkey is at MSA!
A “Bartending Qualification” course sponsored by Pernod Ricard, is starting at the Culinary Arts Academy MSA, Turkey’s first and sole culinary school certified by the worldwide major vocational qualification awarding body City & Guilds! People wishing to improve their skills in bartending should not miss this pre-summer course which provides education with international techniques and recipes…
MSA leads the way in the Turkish tourism and hospitality industry by awarding the first internationally certified “professional bartending qualification”, long lacked in the sector. This vocational course sponsored by Pernod Ricard and supported by technical equipments and materials, provides advanced skills on to the art, presentation and preparation of all types of beverages, tools and utensils, as well as applications related to major beverage groups and bar serving arrangements.
This theoretical as well as applied course will be provided in the bartending classes of MSA, equipped with master-of-the-art technology. M. Aksel the founder of MSA, who commented on this vocational course, which will highly compensate for the lack of qualified bartenders in the sector, said “MSA, as the “school of the kitchen” in Turkey, is offering a City& Guilds approved certificate to the learners of this most demanded and expected “professional bartending qualification”, same as in our professional cookery, as well as pastry and bakery courses our school provides. We intend to supply all the related requirements of the industry with this internationally certificated qualification provided in the sponsorship of our strong business partner Pernod Richard”
Everyone wishing to earn comprehensive skills in bartending, and needing to create success opportunities in the bartending business and social world, will satisfactorily acquire all the requirements while spending a pleasant time in MSA’s “Professional Bartending Qualification”. Try to apply as soon as possible for this special course which will start in May and will last for 11 weeks!
If your heart desires to be a patisserie chef, if you wish to have a career in vanilla scents, come to MSA to inaugurate your dreams!
The Culinary Arts Academy (MSA), the first and only professional cooking and pastry-bakery vocational school certified by the Ministry of Education of Turkey, opens the doors to business after only 8 months. The 21st term Pastry and Bakery courses starting on the 22th of February is expecting the ones who wish to develop a career in a professional kitchen. Applications for the courses with a capacity of 18 people will be over by February the 5th.
The pastry-bakery courses of MSA, which creates a unique opportunity for people who want to make a career or change their careers, are a dream-come-true for kitchen lovers. These 8-month programs in state-of-the-art kitchens provide new opportunities for people who wish to make a career, as well as for the ones who desire to follow a different career path in their existing business.
The courses starting on the 15th of February comprise 3 different programs scheduled for mornings, lunchtimes, and weekends. The first 5 months consist of practical applications in professional kitchens, and the last 3 months continue as training courses in the kitchen and patisserie departments of five-star hotels. Once the 8-month schooling is completed, the business world opens its doors to the MSA graduates.
The Pastry and Bakery graduates of MSA, which has schooled 2000 professionals since its foundation, are progressing in their career in various successful sectorial enterprises such as Four Seasons, Swiss Hotel, Marriot Asia, Movenpick Hotel Patisserie departments, and Divan Patisseries. The MSA graduates, who are provided with City & Guilds accredited diplomas delivered with Europass supplements, while earning the right to work in all the European countries, are also granted with the opportunity of continuing their studies abroad.
You have to hurry up not to miss the cooking and pastry-bakery courses of the best kitchen career providing school, MSA. An interview with MSA’s manager chef is required to be able to join the courses conducted in the state-of-the-art kitchens of 24 people instructed by professional chefs. February the 5th is the last application day.
Special romantic MSA surprises for Valentine’s Day
Join the special Valentine’s Day workshops of MSA in February, and amaze your sweetheart with delicious tastes and romantic dishes that will make your darling re-fall in love with you!
The famous Italian Chef Fabio Brambilla will share with you his extraordinary Valentine’s Day specials and teach you the Italian secret recipes that will enable you to recreate meals of love by “reaching the heart through Italian Cuisine”. As for “The Hottest Cuisine: Mexican”, the course will enable you to impress your darling with the hottest dishes.
Create a memorable day and tempt your sweetheart with “Italian desserts” and aphrodisiac generator “Chocolates”, the Valentine’s Day indispensables, which you will be able to prepare with your own hands. The alternative selections, from strawberry and sage white ganage to cinnamon soufflé, and from bitter chocolates covered with coconuts to Champaign and strawberry mousse, will enable you to overwhelm your sweetheart with a romantic Valentine’s Day full of surprises.
You can also offer your sweetheart an MSA gift voucher and experience together a truly unforgettable day at MSA’s Valentine’s Day workshops, while savouring each bite of your renewed love.
Reserve your place in MSA’s Valentine’s Day workshops to learn the secret sublime recipes that will enable you to seduce as well as amaze your sweetheart on this special Day with the sensational flavours you will be able to re-create.
MSA hosts the World Chocolate Champion Michael Azouz in January
The honorary member of the French Culinary Academy as well as the World Chocolate Champion Michael Azouz will be visiting the Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) in January, under the sponsorship of Unipro. Azouz will meet the chocolate lovers in MSA and teach them all about chocolate and macaroons during the special week designed for MSA students.
Act in haste to be among the amateur kitchen addicts who will come together with Michael Azouz on the 23rd of January to enjoy a wonderful journey…
The prominent chocolate and macaroon chef Michael Azouz will share his unique experiences with both the amateur as well as the professional participants of MSA in January. The Professional Pastry-Bakery students of Unipro MSA are granted the opportunity of attending everyday the macaroon and chocolate lectures, which will last for an entire week. This specific Azouz course designed for professionals only, covers explicitly all the details in regard to macaroons and chocolates.
The honorary member of the French Culinary Academy, Azouz, will also meet the amateur kitchen lovers on Saturday the 23rd, and will take them through a one-of-a-kind adventure while teaching them his individual secrets related to chocolate making.
Michael Azouz, the author of “The symbolism of chocolate”, is also well-known for his numerous conference and practical application courses.
Try not to miss the prominent chef’s specially prepared tasty feast limited to only 28 people, and grab the opportunity of learning how to cook special flavours from a chocolate and confectionary champion.
January 2010
A Worldwide Standard Culinary School in Maslak
Whirlpool Culinary Art Academy (MSA), the first and only private cooking school certified by the Turkish Ministry of Education, providing internationally accepted vocational certificates, and accredited by City & Guilds, opened its state-of-the-art campus with an investment of over 2 million Euros.
On the 17th of August, Mehmet K. Aksel the founder of MSA, Levent Hatay the CEO of Vestel Company Groups representing MSA’s main sponsor Whirlpool, and Cüneyt Yağcı the General manager of GroupeSEB representing the sponsor Tefal, inaugurated an opening ceremony emphasising that MSA’s new challenge will be to go beyond Europe and become the world’s best culinary school.
MSA, the only Turkish culinary school that provides worldwide acknowledged European standards and chosen as one of the two best City & Guilds accredited European culinary schools, enhanced its education system with professional kitchens based on Euro 2011 norms, and will presume at Maslak campus with a tripled capacity.
MSA’s founder Mehmet K. Aksel, who has recently financed a major investment considering the financial crises, stated in his opening speech that he is very proud to announce that his journey which started with 24 students per course has turned out to be a success story operating with a daily capacity of 500 people.
Mehmet K. Aksel stated that their students, who are educated in just 8 months, are ready to have a career, able to work at the best 5-star hotels and restaurants, even become chef candidates abroad, when they graduate. Mr Aksel also emphasised that in spite of the financial crises, most of their students are offered permanent jobs during their training, and approximately 90% of MSA’s 2000 graduates are currently working in prominent places and positions.
“Our challenge will go beyond Europe; we intend to be significant in the world”
Mehmet K. Aksel, who established MSA in 2004, has recently marked a first in Turkey with the comprehensive infrastructure of his 2.100 square meter campus enhanced also by his know-how. In view of the fact, that last year MSA was selected to be one of the best City & Guilds accredited European culinary schools, Mr. Aksel emphasised that this new campus will carry their challenge beyond Europe with the intention of being significant in the world.
Levent Hatay, the CEO of Vestel Company Groups, who represents the prevailing Whirlpool products with a wide spread service network, made a speech on behalf of MSA’s main sponsor Whirlpool, stating that they have supported MSA since the day it was founded and said:.
“At the beginning, as with our other sponsorships, we focused on matching up Whirlpool’s target mass with the target mass of MSA. The MSA workshops developed for amateurs were effective in motivating our collaboration.
However, MSA should be considered as a comprehensive vocational education project, rather than an institute providing courses solely for amateurs. I personally believe that what MSA provides is very valuable. As Whirlpool, we also trust that MSA will go beyond Europe and will be worldwide considered. We are also proud to support MSA on its way achieving its goals.”
Besides the professional Cookery, Pastry & Bakery, and Food & Beverage Administration courses, MSA’s new campus currently located at Maslak, provides also workshops and institutional activities, consultancy services, and consists of professional kitchens based on Euro 2011 norms, kitchens designed for workshops, classrooms for bartending, barista, and sommeliers, as well as special rooms designed for various seminars.
Another noteworthy aspect of the new campus includes Turkey’s one and only ‘Library based on Mastering in Food & Beverage and Rare Books’ as well as a museum exhibiting a special collection on the history of the Turkish Food & Beverage. The school library holds 2.500 books of which the 400 are rare pieces, while the museum contains more than 700 pieces of art with an archive related to the sectorial life style and development of the Ottoman history, from 1800s until the Republic.
The state-of-the-art technological features of the MSA campus equipped with systems equivalent to European 2011 expectations are:
Intelligent electricity consumption and austerity system, European 2011 standard bacteria drainpipes used in water sewage, stainless steel oil and starch traps in water sewage systems, automatic fire detectors, alarms and extinguishers throughout the school including the stovepipes, fabric channelled air-conditioning systems with homogenised air spread…
MSA's founder Mehmet K. Aksel reminded that 2 million Euros were spent for the new school and all the MSA sponsors including Unilever, Unipro, Metro, and particularly Whirlpool and Tefal had extensively supported this investment.
For more information please contact:
+90 212 290 35 50, +90 212 444 9 MSA
info@msa.tc
Culinary Arts Academy (MSA), the first and only vocational school in Turkey approved by the Ministry of Education and granting an international diploma on Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery, opens new business opportunities for its students. MSA’s new courses on “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Programs” starting on September the 20th is designed for the ones who would like to make a career in a professional kitchen and is keen on having a vocational education in effective and international standards.
MSA creates unique opportunities for people who wish to make a career or feel like changing their career, with its Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery courses which provide new business opportunities and enlivens the aspiration of entrepreneurs. As much as for the ones who wish to acquire a career, MSA offers also new opportunities to people who wish to add a new path to their business life, with the “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Programs” completed in 5 months followed by a 3-month internship in 5 starred hotel and restaurants.
The 8-month lasting “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Courses” of MSA, who applies the curriculum of City & Guilds, the international vocational body of the British Royal Academy, will start as 3 different programs consisting of morning, afternoon and week-end packages. The first 5 months of this 8-months program will comprise applied courses in professional kitchens, and the last 3 months will be completed as internship in the best five-star hotels and restaurants, to finally be ready to enter the business world MSA provides its graduates.
Students trained at MSA have also the opportunity to meet the worldly famous foreign chefs hosted by MSA. Mickael Azouz the World Chocolate Champion, Jean-François Deguignet the executive pastry chef of worldly known culinary school Le Cordon Bleu, Adam Melonas one of the pioneers in Progressive Cuisine, and Erez Komarovsky the world celebrity executive chef in bakery, are only some of the prominent Chefs MSA has invited recently, to bring them together with MSA’s professional students and the sector’s spokesmen...
A significant advantage offered by MSA is that the Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery students are having one-to-one trainings by the prominent “guest chefs” who are invited to MSA, according to the program topics students have selected. For example, London Nobu’s ex-chef Hiroki Takemura, who is currently working at Sunset, comes to MSA to personally teach the MSA students on sushi courses. Furthermore, during the education programs, students are taken to diverse industrial trips such as, visits to Etçi’s integrated meat facility, organic farms, or Electrolux Professional providing detailed instructions on professional kitchen equipments, which offer valuable opportunities for students in their future career life.
Ever since its establishment in 2004, more than 2000 graduates of MSA are currently promoting their career in prominent hotels and restaurants such as Les Ottomans, Four Seasons, Swissotel, Sunset, Ulus 29, and Papermoon. MSA graduates are also granted the opportunity of working or acquiring advanced education abroad via MSA’s City & Guilds accredited diplomas valid as Europass. MSA students and graduates have also the possibility of working or doing their internship at famous restaurants such as Jamie’s Italian in London, or Mama Shelter in Paris.
You have to hurry to be able to participate into the “Professional Cookery and Pastry-Bakery Courses” which are designed to satisfy people who desire to make a career in Culinary. Please apply as soon as possible to the September Professional Cookery course with a capacity of 150 students and the Professional Pastry-Bakery course limited to 55 students!
Detailed information on the courses can be obtained from the website www.msa.tc
or by calling 0212 290 35 50 / 444 9 MSA
The New Endeavor Entrepreneur: Mehmet Aksel the founder of Culinary Arts Academy (MSA)
The new Endeavor Entrepreneurs of 35th International Election Panel of Endeavor held in Turkey have been selected. During the election consisting of 18 high-levelled managers, entrepreneurs, business leaders and investor panellists from 12 different countries, 8 candidates out of 14 entrepreneurs have been selected as the new Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Mehmet Aksel, the founder of Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) was among the entrepreneurs representing Turkey.
Endeavor Turkey, founded by prominent names of the Turkish business world with the purpose of transforming the economies of emerging markets by identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs, was the host of this year’s Endeavor 35th International Election Panel. 21 entrepreneurs representing 14 different companies from 4 countries were evaluated at the International Election Panel held between 13-15 June 2010. One of the selected entrepreneurs was Mehmet Aksel, the founder of Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) Turkey’s first and only culinary school affiliated to the worldly prominent vocational body City&Guilds.
Among the panellists from Turkey were Ali Koç (Koç Holding) and Ebru Özdemir (Limak Holding), as the Board Members of Endeavor Turkey, and Osman Ünsal (Esas Holding) as Endeavor Consulting Member. The prominent international panellists were Arif Naqvi Abraaj Capital Limited’s Founder and Chairman of the Board, Fadi Ghandour Aramex International’s Founder and CEO, Richard Hamermesh Professor of Harvard Business School.
Among the selected Endeavor Entrepreneurs was Mehmet Aksel, the founder of Culinary Arts Academy Turkey granting international diplomas, Balkan Horse-riding and Turkey Car Sports Champion, who displays his target-oriented and passionate character with the projects he develops in the vocational education field. Mehmet Aksel’s dream is to promote vocational education and provide people with new and marketable vocational skills. His school Culinary Arts Academy, established in view of that, has already been acknowledged as one of Europe’s best culinary school providing educational courses for professionals, valuable international diplomas, and internship and business opportunities.
http://www.endeavor.org/
The first International Certificated Bartending Qualification in Turkey is at MSA!
A “Bartending Qualification” course sponsored by Pernod Ricard, is starting at the Culinary Arts Academy MSA, Turkey’s first and sole culinary school certified by the worldwide major vocational qualification awarding body City & Guilds! People wishing to improve their skills in bartending should not miss this pre-summer course which provides education with international techniques and recipes…
MSA leads the way in the Turkish tourism and hospitality industry by awarding the first internationally certified “professional bartending qualification”, long lacked in the sector. This vocational course sponsored by Pernod Ricard and supported by technical equipments and materials, provides advanced skills on to the art, presentation and preparation of all types of beverages, tools and utensils, as well as applications related to major beverage groups and bar serving arrangements.
This theoretical as well as applied course will be provided in the bartending classes of MSA, equipped with master-of-the-art technology. M. Aksel the founder of MSA, who commented on this vocational course, which will highly compensate for the lack of qualified bartenders in the sector, said “MSA, as the “school of the kitchen” in Turkey, is offering a City& Guilds approved certificate to the learners of this most demanded and expected “professional bartending qualification”, same as in our professional cookery, as well as pastry and bakery courses our school provides. We intend to supply all the related requirements of the industry with this internationally certificated qualification provided in the sponsorship of our strong business partner Pernod Richard”
Everyone wishing to earn comprehensive skills in bartending, and needing to create success opportunities in the bartending business and social world, will satisfactorily acquire all the requirements while spending a pleasant time in MSA’s “Professional Bartending Qualification”. Try to apply as soon as possible for this special course which will start in May and will last for 11 weeks!
If your heart desires to be a patisserie chef, if you wish to have a career in vanilla scents, come to MSA to inaugurate your dreams!
The Culinary Arts Academy (MSA), the first and only professional cooking and pastry-bakery vocational school certified by the Ministry of Education of Turkey, opens the doors to business after only 8 months. The 21st term Pastry and Bakery courses starting on the 22th of February is expecting the ones who wish to develop a career in a professional kitchen. Applications for the courses with a capacity of 18 people will be over by February the 5th.
The pastry-bakery courses of MSA, which creates a unique opportunity for people who want to make a career or change their careers, are a dream-come-true for kitchen lovers. These 8-month programs in state-of-the-art kitchens provide new opportunities for people who wish to make a career, as well as for the ones who desire to follow a different career path in their existing business.
The courses starting on the 15th of February comprise 3 different programs scheduled for mornings, lunchtimes, and weekends. The first 5 months consist of practical applications in professional kitchens, and the last 3 months continue as training courses in the kitchen and patisserie departments of five-star hotels. Once the 8-month schooling is completed, the business world opens its doors to the MSA graduates.
The Pastry and Bakery graduates of MSA, which has schooled 2000 professionals since its foundation, are progressing in their career in various successful sectorial enterprises such as Four Seasons, Swiss Hotel, Marriot Asia, Movenpick Hotel Patisserie departments, and Divan Patisseries. The MSA graduates, who are provided with City & Guilds accredited diplomas delivered with Europass supplements, while earning the right to work in all the European countries, are also granted with the opportunity of continuing their studies abroad.
You have to hurry up not to miss the cooking and pastry-bakery courses of the best kitchen career providing school, MSA. An interview with MSA’s manager chef is required to be able to join the courses conducted in the state-of-the-art kitchens of 24 people instructed by professional chefs. February the 5th is the last application day.
Special romantic MSA surprises for Valentine’s Day
Join the special Valentine’s Day workshops of MSA in February, and amaze your sweetheart with delicious tastes and romantic dishes that will make your darling re-fall in love with you!
The famous Italian Chef Fabio Brambilla will share with you his extraordinary Valentine’s Day specials and teach you the Italian secret recipes that will enable you to recreate meals of love by “reaching the heart through Italian Cuisine”. As for “The Hottest Cuisine: Mexican”, the course will enable you to impress your darling with the hottest dishes.
Create a memorable day and tempt your sweetheart with “Italian desserts” and aphrodisiac generator “Chocolates”, the Valentine’s Day indispensables, which you will be able to prepare with your own hands. The alternative selections, from strawberry and sage white ganage to cinnamon soufflé, and from bitter chocolates covered with coconuts to Champaign and strawberry mousse, will enable you to overwhelm your sweetheart with a romantic Valentine’s Day full of surprises.
You can also offer your sweetheart an MSA gift voucher and experience together a truly unforgettable day at MSA’s Valentine’s Day workshops, while savouring each bite of your renewed love.
Reserve your place in MSA’s Valentine’s Day workshops to learn the secret sublime recipes that will enable you to seduce as well as amaze your sweetheart on this special Day with the sensational flavours you will be able to re-create.
MSA hosts the World Chocolate Champion Michael Azouz in January
The honorary member of the French Culinary Academy as well as the World Chocolate Champion Michael Azouz will be visiting the Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) in January, under the sponsorship of Unipro. Azouz will meet the chocolate lovers in MSA and teach them all about chocolate and macaroons during the special week designed for MSA students.
Act in haste to be among the amateur kitchen addicts who will come together with Michael Azouz on the 23rd of January to enjoy a wonderful journey…
The prominent chocolate and macaroon chef Michael Azouz will share his unique experiences with both the amateur as well as the professional participants of MSA in January. The Professional Pastry-Bakery students of Unipro MSA are granted the opportunity of attending everyday the macaroon and chocolate lectures, which will last for an entire week. This specific Azouz course designed for professionals only, covers explicitly all the details in regard to macaroons and chocolates.
The honorary member of the French Culinary Academy, Azouz, will also meet the amateur kitchen lovers on Saturday the 23rd, and will take them through a one-of-a-kind adventure while teaching them his individual secrets related to chocolate making.
Michael Azouz, the author of “The symbolism of chocolate”, is also well-known for his numerous conference and practical application courses.
Try not to miss the prominent chef’s specially prepared tasty feast limited to only 28 people, and grab the opportunity of learning how to cook special flavours from a chocolate and confectionary champion.
January 2010
A Worldwide Standard Culinary School in Maslak
Whirlpool Culinary Art Academy (MSA), the first and only private cooking school certified by the Turkish Ministry of Education, providing internationally accepted vocational certificates, and accredited by City & Guilds, opened its state-of-the-art campus with an investment of over 2 million Euros.
On the 17th of August, Mehmet K. Aksel the founder of MSA, Levent Hatay the CEO of Vestel Company Groups representing MSA’s main sponsor Whirlpool, and Cüneyt Yağcı the General manager of GroupeSEB representing the sponsor Tefal, inaugurated an opening ceremony emphasising that MSA’s new challenge will be to go beyond Europe and become the world’s best culinary school.
MSA, the only Turkish culinary school that provides worldwide acknowledged European standards and chosen as one of the two best City & Guilds accredited European culinary schools, enhanced its education system with professional kitchens based on Euro 2011 norms, and will presume at Maslak campus with a tripled capacity.
MSA’s founder Mehmet K. Aksel, who has recently financed a major investment considering the financial crises, stated in his opening speech that he is very proud to announce that his journey which started with 24 students per course has turned out to be a success story operating with a daily capacity of 500 people.
Mehmet K. Aksel stated that their students, who are educated in just 8 months, are ready to have a career, able to work at the best 5-star hotels and restaurants, even become chef candidates abroad, when they graduate. Mr Aksel also emphasised that in spite of the financial crises, most of their students are offered permanent jobs during their training, and approximately 90% of MSA’s 2000 graduates are currently working in prominent places and positions.
“Our challenge will go beyond Europe; we intend to be significant in the world”
Mehmet K. Aksel, who established MSA in 2004, has recently marked a first in Turkey with the comprehensive infrastructure of his 2.100 square meter campus enhanced also by his know-how. In view of the fact, that last year MSA was selected to be one of the best City & Guilds accredited European culinary schools, Mr. Aksel emphasised that this new campus will carry their challenge beyond Europe with the intention of being significant in the world.
Levent Hatay, the CEO of Vestel Company Groups, who represents the prevailing Whirlpool products with a wide spread service network, made a speech on behalf of MSA’s main sponsor Whirlpool, stating that they have supported MSA since the day it was founded and said:.
“At the beginning, as with our other sponsorships, we focused on matching up Whirlpool’s target mass with the target mass of MSA. The MSA workshops developed for amateurs were effective in motivating our collaboration.
However, MSA should be considered as a comprehensive vocational education project, rather than an institute providing courses solely for amateurs. I personally believe that what MSA provides is very valuable. As Whirlpool, we also trust that MSA will go beyond Europe and will be worldwide considered. We are also proud to support MSA on its way achieving its goals.”
Besides the professional Cookery, Pastry & Bakery, and Food & Beverage Administration courses, MSA’s new campus currently located at Maslak, provides also workshops and institutional activities, consultancy services, and consists of professional kitchens based on Euro 2011 norms, kitchens designed for workshops, classrooms for bartending, barista, and sommeliers, as well as special rooms designed for various seminars.
Another noteworthy aspect of the new campus includes Turkey’s one and only ‘Library based on Mastering in Food & Beverage and Rare Books’ as well as a museum exhibiting a special collection on the history of the Turkish Food & Beverage. The school library holds 2.500 books of which the 400 are rare pieces, while the museum contains more than 700 pieces of art with an archive related to the sectorial life style and development of the Ottoman history, from 1800s until the Republic.
The state-of-the-art technological features of the MSA campus equipped with systems equivalent to European 2011 expectations are:
Intelligent electricity consumption and austerity system, European 2011 standard bacteria drainpipes used in water sewage, stainless steel oil and starch traps in water sewage systems, automatic fire detectors, alarms and extinguishers throughout the school including the stovepipes, fabric channelled air-conditioning systems with homogenised air spread…
MSA's founder Mehmet K. Aksel reminded that 2 million Euros were spent for the new school and all the MSA sponsors including Unilever, Unipro, Metro, and particularly Whirlpool and Tefal had extensively supported this investment.
For more information please contact:
+90 212 290 35 50, +90 212 444 9 MSA
info@msa.tc
