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“Scuole Di Mestiere”: Quality Training To Promote Italy’s Finest Onboard Costa Cruises’ Ships
The Italian company organizes training coursesof the highest quality for its shipboard employees in collaboration with premiumpartners who are global ambassadors for Italian-made excellence.
By the end of 2016 over 90 shipboard managerswill have taken part in this training.
Genoa – October 27, 2016 – Costa Cruises is investing inthe "Scuole di Mestiere" (Schools ofTrades), a project aimed at providing its shipboard staff with specifictraining of the highest level and focusing on "Italy's finest".
The"Scuole di Mestiere" consist of a series of top quality workshops and master'scourses, designed in collaboration with some of Costa's partners – names whichstand for Italian excellence worldwide: the Università del Caffè illy, Cantine Ferrari, AcademiaBarilla, CAST Alimenti - the school of trades oftaste and the Universitàdegli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche (UNISGPollenzo).
Bythe end of 2016 Costa Cruises will have trained more than 90 shipboard managersgiving them the opportunity to becomemore familiar with the values, vision, professionalism, quality and know-how ofthese centers of Italian excellence.
The initiative furtherstrengthens the already well-established alliance between Costa Cruises and itspartners, thanks to which the company's cruise guests can enjoy the famousbubbly Ferrari Trentodoc, Barilla pasta dishes, inimitable illy blend coffee and pizza made with yeast base, the result of Costa's collaboration with the Universitàdegli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche (UNISG Pollenzo). In addition, this year Costa has begunmaking use of the professionalism and experience of CAST Alimenti - the school of trades oftaste for the training and selectionof its pastry chefs on board.
"The Scuoledi Mestiere project is a first for our industry, which further consolidates theties between Costa Cruises and the leading brands of Italian excellence, withwhom we have been collaborating for some time now so as to offer our guests onlyItaly's finest: illy, Barilla, Ferrari,CAST Alimenti and the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche diPollenzo. Excellent Italian productsthat are the envy of the world are also the fruit of a culture and expertise thatwe are bringing onboard our ships by means of the Schools of Trades," said CostaCruises President Neil Palomba.
Thetrained managers will become custodians of secrets of the trade and will, inturn, act as trainers, passing this teaching on to their teams onboard andturning the Costa ships into veritable continuingeducation centers.
Atthe Università del caffè illy in Trieste, a center of excellence set up with a brief to foster coffee culture and knowledge worldwide by means ofeducation, course participants learn the techniques required to make the "perfect"espresso and cappuccino, in keeping with the finest Italian tradition.
Cantine Ferrari are providing theirmany decades of experience on a journey of discovery of the secrets of top-of-the-range Italian bubbly embracinghistory, values, local roots and food & wine pairings, and giving participantsthe tools they need to tell all Costa's cruise guests about the characteristicsof Ferrari Trentodoc spumante.
At Academia Barilla, the first international center dedicated to thediffusion, promotion and development of Italian gastronomic culture in theworld, Costa Chefs are certified as ambassadorsof authentic Italian cuisine. Aftertaking part in training that alternates visits to Barilla's laboratories with practicallessons, the cruise line's Chefs can stage cooking demonstrations and presentas effectively as possible Italy's most famous staple food and internationallyrecognized export – pasta.
At CAST Alimenti, the school of tradesof taste, under the watchful eyeof Master Chef Massari, Costa's Pastry Chefshave the chance to do a refresher course, hone their skills and master the finest patisserie techniques: the demonstrations and practical lessons, touchingon subjects related to decoration and chocolate-making, enable participating PastryChefs to create ever tastier and more refined desserts.
Last but not least, at UNISG, theUniversità degli Studi di ScienzeGastronomiche di Pollenzo, Costa's pizza chefs and bakers learn all about excellent products like flour, yeast base andmixes for bread and pizza with special attention to the environmentalimplications and to sustainability.
The "Scuole diMestiere" project is the latest addition to a wide range oftraining programs that Costa has always provided for all its shipboardand shoreside employees so as to ensure the continuous improvement of theirskills.
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