West Virginia Cooking and Culinary Schools
Degree Programs: Culinary Management, Culinary Arts, Baking, Pastry, Restaurant Management, Catering Management, Food & Beverage Management...
Largest Cities: Beckley, Bluefield, Bridgeport, Charleston, Clarksburg, Dunbar, Fairmont, Huntington, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Parkersburg, St. Albans, Vienna, Weirton, Wheeling...
West Virginia attracts more than 40 million visitors annually, and this booming tourism industry is good news for aspiring chefs, who are forecasted to see an increase in opportunities of 13% through 2012.
West Virginia's local restaurants are famous for serving traditional favorites, including egg biscuits with country ham and cheese, fried green tomatoes, apple fritters, apple butter, and bread pudding with vanilla sauce. West Virginia is also home to author Pearl S. Buck, soldier Stonewall Jackson, actress Jennifer Garner, actor Don Knotts, and gymnast Mary Lou Retton.
