"Chef Powers’ credentials speak for themselves,” OCCI Executive Director Shawn Hanlin said. “To have a Certified Master Baker on our staff, even temporarily, is a huge honor.”
Oregon Coast Culinary Institute is continuing with its tradition of outstanding instruction in the Baking and Pastry Arts Program with the recent addition of Certified Master Baker Tina Powers as a temporary instructor.
Powers, who will begin Spring Term by assisting Patty Curfman and will replace Curfman when she returns to her business in Salem. Powers will be filling in for Baking and Pastry Arts Program Director Kevin Shaw, who is off work at his request.
A chef instructor at Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Powers has an exemplary history in the baking and pastry arts discipline and in education. She has held instructor and program coordinator positions at Emily Griffith Opportunity School in Denver, Colo., Diablo Valley College Hotel and Restaurant Program in Pleasant Hill, Calif., and the Institute for the Culinary Arts at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb. She also has a vast array of experience in the culinary and baking arts, having held a variety of positions as an executive chef and business owner at locations in California, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska and Oregon.
She currently also is working as an independent contractor culinary arts writer, re-writing the ACF Cold Kitchen Fundamentals Textbook and producing PowerPoint lectures for the book based on the review work done previously for Pearson/Prentice Hall. The book is expected to go into production this summer.
She has held credentials from the ACF as a Certified Executive Chef and Certified Culinary Educator, and also is recognized as one of close to 300 Certified Master Bakers in the United States from the Retail Bakers of America. Powers has garnered an impressive collection of awards over the years, including CEC High Achiever Award in 2007, ACF Presidential Medal, Central Regional ACF Steady Eddie Service Award, NISOD Excellence Award, Conagra Excellence in Education Award, Modern Baking Educator of the Year and Phi Theta Kappa Instructor of the year.
“Chef Powers’ credentials speak for themselves,” OCCI Executive Director Shawn Hanlin said. “To have a Certified Master Baker on our staff, even temporarily, is a huge honor.”