The students of Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) School of Applied Sciences the Department of Gastronomy in English hosted Bakery Chef Mehmet Özbay in Gastronorm within the scope of Basic Culinary Techniques-I and Gastronomic Applications-I courses. Executive Chef Fatih Mehmet Aydın, the lecturer of the course, gave the opportunity to the students of the department to participate in the sourdough bread production workshop.
 

Bakery Chef Mehmet Özbay have worked at hotels such as Hilton, Titanic, Edition and also gives consultancy services to many well-known restaurants. He pointed out the difficulty of obtaining sourdough, the production process of sourdough he follows, and that every sourdough could not give the same aroma and taste, and gave some tricks of sourdough bread production to students.
 

Head of the Department Asst. Prof. Dr. Serdar Çöp, Vice Head of the Department Asst. Prof. Dr. Sema Aydın, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rehab Ahmed Mohamed El Gamil and Res. Asst. Gizem Hülağa also participated in the training. The students tasted sourdough breads after the training and evaluated the differences in the aroma and appearance of other breads.
 

On behalf of the students, Head of the Department Asst. Prof. Dr. Serdar Çöp thanked Bakery Chef Mehmet Özbay for sharing his valuable information and time with our students and the lecturer of the course, Executive Chef Fatih Mehmet Aydın for organizing this event.