To enhance its culinary program, a University of New Jersey wants to cook with cannabis

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To enhance its culinary program, a University of New Jersey wants to cook with cannabis

The community college that launched a culinary arts program in 1981 to train chefs for the Atlantic City casinos, is now preparing to add cannabis cooking to its menu offerings.

But how fast the plan goes depends on when New Jersey legalizes marijuana for recreational use.

"We will be ready when the opportunity arises," said Executive Chef Kelly McClay, Dean of the Culinary Arts Academy at Atlantic Cape Community College. “Some think it will happen in the next six months; others are reluctant and don't think it will happen. I think it could be relatively fast. '

Lawmakers have been debating legalization for more than a year and some have suggested allowing it in a limited number of places first. Atlantic City has been named as a test location.

McClay, the first female chef to work at an Atlantic City casino, has long been open to innovative ideas. She converted a greenhouse on the Mays Landing campus once used by the science department into a place where organic herbs and edible flowers grow.

She welcomes the idea of ​​teaching students to cook with a new ingredient that is becoming all the rage in restaurants in countries where it is legal. But the weed will not be available for students to use in her classroom unless it is legalized, or unless the school is given special permission to use marijuana grown for medical use in the state's six dispensary settings.

Read more about it on Philly.com (source, AND).
Photo: Atlantic Cape Community College.

 

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