Bread Baking Essentials and Vegetarian Cooking Class

Rob Beaton pulls tasty, heart-healthy rolls hot out of the oven. His mission in life is to debunk the myth that good food tastes bad. Rob Beaton, BST, a professional baker with 27 years of baking experience, will be teaching “Bread Baking Essentials”on Sunday, April 27 in the village of Valatie, NY. He is one of two vegetarian Chefs coming to Le Jardin – 3050 Main Street, Valatie - to teach healthy baking and vegetarian cooking.

His baking class is scheduled for 1:30pm and will be followed by a Vegetarian Cooking class at 4:30. Chef  Alberto Reyes (left)  will teach basic principles of cooking vegetarian entrees.

Rob Beaton holds a certificate in Baking and Science Technology (BST) from the American Institute of Baking at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. His experience includes eight years as a Navy cook aboard nuclear powered submarines based in San Diego, California, and Groton, Connecticut.

His professional bakery career began at Oasis Breads, the San Diego, California, bakery that produced flourless breads. In five years, his career bulleted to general manager. At Donatos Pizza Corporation in Columbus, Ohio, he was the commissary manager responsible for producing 10 million pizza doughs distributed to 137 stores in seven states annually. That figure rose to 12 million. Later, as quality assurance manager for dough product development, he generated new dough recipes geared for existing bakery production lines.

Before he and his family caravanned to the campus of Atlantic Union College in Massachussetts, he served as director of the Weimar NEWSTART® bakery (California) and instructor in the Weimar College Culinary Arts Program.  He is currently in charge of the Atlantic Union College bakery where he is developing an on-site bakery business for campus and public consumption. “Bread Baking Essentials” will teach you what you need to know to make great tasting, great looking, and good-for-you bread in your own home. 

While donations to cover expenses of seminar are accepted, both the baking and vegetarian cooking classes are offered free of charge by the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Kinderhook as a service to the community.