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This place is a nightmare! Check out http://www.yelp.com/biz/old-town-cooking-school-pasadena to see why. She deserves every rotten review she's received on there. The crazy witch who runs that joint is just trying to swindle people out of money, while infecting them with her nasty finger licking germs! ...read more

Chefs at CSCA Pasadena demonstrate irritability, impatience and often operate their class at a rediculously fast pace (and if supplies aren't available as was usually the case, expect that anger and irritiability to inscrease exponentially) . They are unapproachable and incapable of providing a letter of recommendation because they always appear to be so irritated at the class as a whole, that it makes it difficult for one to ask for a chef's recommendation because there isn't a chance for a student-mentor relationship to develope. It was like being on T.V. 's Hell's Kitchen and the class was being taught by Gordon Ramsey (regardless if the chef instructor was male or female). I've been working in commercial kichens as a paid employee since attending CSCA and when the boss snaps, you take it because that's the guy that signs your paycheck. However, if one is PAYING for classroom instruction and what they get is is an angery, demeaning chef-instructor ... ... well, one doesn't have to sign THEIR paycheck, especially if one can learn more from the class textbook, which would not only be THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS less than the tuition ... but if the book was checked out of a LIBRARY... I guess one could LEARN to be a chef FOR FREE !! ...read more