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However, investment in tourism industry requires software to run, including high-end chefs to work hotel and restaurant kitchens. But top chefs able to serve world-class cuisine to discerning tourists have always been hard to come by, says Pierre Tami, who arrived in Cambodia as a diplomat in 1990.
Academy training youth for a global trade While the kitchens in Phnom Penh now are a bit quiet because of the pandemic, last year they would have been bustling with students basting, broiling and baking. Those students were laying the foundations for careers in food, and they are readying to get back to school. This is the Academy of Culinary Arts Cambodia, the first chef’s school in the country to offer an internationally recognized diploma. Started in 2016, the Academy trains recent graduates and those looking for a career switch with a two-year curriculum that includes two six-month dome...