Class of 2024-2025 – MACAT Professional License “International Gastronomic Heritage – Disciples Escoffier”

The 2024-2025 class brings together 15 passionate students – 9 in cooking and 6 in service – who, throughout their year of training, have multiplied projects and experiences, combining professional rigor and creativity:

• Team building workshops: strengthening team spirit between cooks and servers, an essential value transmitted by Escoffier.
• “Le Fourneau des Escoffier” workshops: a highlight marked by privileged exchanges with Meilleurs Ouvriers de France and multi-starred chefs.
• Restaurant management workshops: complete immersion in managing an establishment, from designing the offering to the customer experience.
• Nomadic workshops: Students took part in off-site experiences: the prestigious Truffle Dinner at the Château d'Artigny and the friendly Tomato Festival at the Château de la Bourdaisière.

Various supervised projects also punctuated the year, allowing students to confront concrete and diverse situations:

• Organization of a charity evening at the Château de Haute-Roche for the benefit of the Magie à l'Hôpital association
• Creation of a producers' market promoting talented producers
• Implementation of a HACCP approach in professional workshops
• Development of the 2.0 Directory of Contemporary Cuisine, an innovative digital resource dedicated to current culinary techniques.

Finally, to conclude their journey, the students experienced a significant milestone: their induction as Young Escoffier Talents during the prestigious Tomato Festival in La Bourdaisière, a symbol of recognition and commitment to the values of transmission and sharing.

Following this induction, they then completed their training with a six-week international mission to exceptional destinations: Tokyo (Japan), Jakarta (Indonesia), Hong Kong (SAR), Mexico City (Mexico), London (England), Sicily (Italy), Quebec (Canada), Copenhagen (Denmark).

These immersions allowed them to discover diverse culinary cultures and to open up to prestigious professional environments, from the Mediterranean hospitality of Sicily to the Nordic gastronomy of Copenhagen, via the avant-garde of Tokyo and the effervescence of London.

An unforgettable human and professional adventure, which embodies the very essence of the MACAT License: growing through transmission, flourishing through discovery and shining through gastronomy.

The 2024-2025 class fully embodies the spirit of the MACAT degree: international openness, high standards, creativity and a passion for gastronomic heritage, under the aegis of the Disciples Escoffier.