Penne pasta with marinara sauce.
MAYS LANDING — Atlantic Cape Community College’s Academy of Culinary Arts student-run gourmet restaurant, Careme’s, will be hosting a carry-out/dine-in Pasta Night fundraising event Thursday, Feb. 23 at the Mays Landing campus in M Building.
The evening’s event is being held to help raise funds for students of the culinary arts program who are going on this year’s 17-day Italy excursion, May 23 to June 8. For the 28 culinary students planning to make the overseas trip, it is an exceptional opportunity for them to experience first-hand, a half dozen authentic Italian cooking classes, trips to wineries, distilleries, olive oil production facility, balsamic vinegar aging facility, coffee college, Parmigiano Reggiano production facilities and day trips to Rome, Venice, Umbria and more. Students may also use this trip towards their degree as a general education elective course.
“We have partnered with Marco Polo Study Abroad since 2016 to provide an opportunity for our culinary students to experience travel and the regional cuisines of Italy,” Atlantic Cape Director of Academy of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Joseph Sheridan said. “The students who have had the opportunity to attend have literally all said that the experience changed the way they look at the world.”
On the menu for the Pasta Night fundraiser will be a Caesar salad, homemade focaccia, penne pasta with marinara sauce ($18) or Bolognese sauce ($20) and cannoli. Guests are able to add Italian sausage for $3 and an extra cannoli for $1. Dinners will be available for carry-out 4-7 p.m. or guests may dine in at Careme’s 5-7 p.m.
“For many students this will be their first experience traveling abroad, so the opportunity to see another culture, learn about its traditions and why the cuisine of the north differs from the south, for example, may only help to broaden a students’ experience and ultimately make them not only better culinarians, but better citizens as well,” Sheridan said.
Take-out orders may be placed at bit.ly/ACAPastaNight until Thursday 3 p.m. Dine-in reservations may be made by emailing caremes@atlantic.edu or calling 609-343-4940. Parking is available in Lot 3 adjacent to Careme’s.
Visit atlantic.edu/caremes for more information the student-run restaurant or atlantic.edu/aca for more information about Academy of Culinary Arts.
