Kaylee Bulger has long known the culinary arts is the path she’s taking. But she didn’t quite expect this opportunity to serve itself before she even graduated high school.
Kaylee is a Marion senior who attends Monroe-1 BOCES in Fairport to study the culinary arts. She admits her specialty so far is baking food like chocolate chip cookies and even fried dough. But earlier this year at BOCES, Kaylee and her fellow culinary students were presented with the opportunity to create an original food item and then receive guidance from a food professional.
Once the class decided barbecue sauce was the food to create, Pauly Guglielmo of Craft Cannery came on board to not just help the process, but encourage the ambition.
“It inspired me to keep going and know that when I put my mind to it, I can keep thriving,” Kaylee said of the experience.
Kaylee and her classmates not only made the sauce, but learned the process in which food is prepared and canned at the Craft Cannery in Bergen (Genesee County) for distribution and sale. The lesson also went well beyond ingredients and food prep.
“I had a leadership role and one of the older students in the class so helping the younger kids was huge,” she said. “As a senior, I was having a big impact on it.”
Kaylee plans to attend Finger Lakes Community College in the fall to study culinary arts.
