Knife skills class by OTTIMMO

Basic Knife Skills for Beginners

I’m sure most of you can cook, and I’m willing to bet that your family really loves the food you make. Every cook needs to start with basic knife skills, long before you get the title of “certified chef.” These are not only tricks of the trade but also for your own safety. Join the…

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OTTIMMO Appetizer Class - Making Crab Cake, Samosa, Devilled Egg, and Stuffed Cucumber

The Art of Hot and Cold Appetisers

In the dynamic industry of culinary arts, you must master the preparation of hot and cold appetisers. This important course is very crucial to the diner; in fact, it is an introduction to your menu. Usually, people who order appetisers are very hungry and can be a little impatient. It is even more critical on…

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Michelin Guide

What is a Michelin Star and How Do Restaurants Get It?

In the culinary world, obtaining a Michelin Star is a demanding process of dedication and skill. The discussion herein is to educate you about what a Michelin Star is and the criteria in which a restaurant is judged to earn one. Have you ever dreamed of earning a Michelin Star? The professional chefs at OTTIMMO…

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2023 business trend

Food Business Trends in 2023

In this ever-changing, dynamic culinary world, the food business trends upcoming for 2023 are here and may surprise you. Keeping up with the trend is important because it will impact your business and you must keep informed of the expectations of your potential customers. Learning how to use these new ingredients and adapting your restaurant’s…

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OTTIMMO - Fine Dining

Culinary Art Academy: Preparing and Styling Fine Dining

To showcase the finest cuisine, the art of fine dining calls for the strictest attention to plating and detail along with precise cooking methods. Current trends call for styling a dish with modern cooking techniques and combining artistic flair for an elegant dining experience. OTTIMMO Culinary Art Academy has the expertise and knowledge, with world-class…

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OTTIMMO - Business Opportunities

Culinary Business Opportunities in Indonesia: Be Unique

Culinary business opportunities in Indonesia are plentiful and dependent on current trends as led by public opinion and popularity. Good fortune will surely follow if you find a niche and a good marketing strategy for your business concept. OTTIMMO Culinary Academy in Surabaya can provide you with all of your knowledge and professional guidance. The…

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OTTIMMO - Food Presentation

Food Presentation: Turning Toppings into Something Breathtaking

The art of food presentation is almost as important as the food preparation itself. Creativity can shine through, but it must work harmoniously with the dish and flavours. OTTIMMO has mastered this skill and will share its trade secrets with talented students who seek the knowledge and have the willingness to excel in this ever-evolving…

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OTTIMMO - Culinary Art as A Career

Why Choose The Culinary Arts As A Career?

The culinary arts are an exciting career path to choose if you are passionate about food and have a creative edge, along with good attention to detail. It truly is a dynamic career path. Chefs are often praised and held in high regard and can be financially successful if you are willing to dedicate your…

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WORKSHOP FOR TB SURVIVOR

CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY BY COOKING WORKSHOP FOR TB SURVIVOR

Independence day is a good opportunity for every people to celebrate and doing activity in every country. August is a mount  of Indonesia Independence Day, in that moment is a good opportunity for every Indonesian citizen to make activities that certainly entertain the public, starting from competitions, stages performance, and so on. However, on this…

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Best Food for Good Ears

Best Food for Good Ears

Do you know? The food that you take determines the functionality of your organs and body? Each organ in your body requires different type of supplements, nutrients and vitamins to be healthy and to avoid infections. This is the very reason why the dieticians and physicians signify the necessity of a balanced diet. The sensory…

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Cooking Workshop

Cooking Workshop for Tuberculosis Survivor

March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day. In commemoration of Tuberculosis Day, International OTTIMMO together with the Surabaya City Health Office, and the Surabaya City Tuberculosis Eradication Acceleration Team (YKNCVI and REKAT) took the initiative to make something that can train cooking skills for TB survivors or families of TB sufferers, through a cooking workshop. The…

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Recyling Waste Food, Dragon Fruit Skin's Meatballs

Recyling Waste Food, Dragon Fruit Skin’s Meatballs

Every year DIKTI always provides grants for research by university lecturer. For the period 2021 – 2022, OTTIMMO International is innovating through research on meatballs which are very good for healthy, why? Because we made an innovation, namely meatballs made from dragon fruit skin. There are interesting things that we want to convey in it,…

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Chinese Food Culture

Learn Chinese Food Culture Through OTTIMMO International Open House

Open House it can be an effective for indirect selling activities. As  usually in previous years where the OTTIMMO International open house was held offline (face to face) with the theme from several countries, where in the event all chefs from kitchen culinary arts and baking pastry arts and beverage made cuisine according to the…

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WEDANG ADEM

WEDANG ADEM’S ONLINE COOKING CLASS AND TALKSHOW WITH WAHANA VISI

In commemoration of National Health Day, OTTIMMO International collaborated with Wahana Visi Indonesia to create an event, namely a virtual cooking class and talk show. The concept of this event is to invite participants to be able to make healthy food made from natural ingredients, as well as collect donations for children in the Asmat…

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stevia leaves

IMPORTANT FOR DIABETICS

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turn food into energy. Most of food you eat is broken down into sugar and release into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to let the blood sugar into your…

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Coffee beans

OTTIMMO’S STUDENT COFFEE CLASS

Third year students always get a beverage class, there is a coffee and wine class before they do the internship program. On September 27th we started our drink class by giving material about coffee. Our students took us to a coffee plantation in Tutur village, Pasuruan, where they saw and learned about different types of…

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Wonderful Village in Indonesia

WEBINAR “The Future of Wonderful Village in Indonesia”

On July 23, 2021, OTTIMMO International has successfully held a webinar about tourism village with the title “The Future of Wonderful Village in Indonesia: Opportunities and Challenges” by presenting the Minister of tourism and creativeeconomy (Mr. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno), Initiator, founder and chair of Indonesia Gastronomy Network (Ms. Vita Datau) and the general chairman of…

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Fresh milk

MILK “UHT MILK VS FRESH MILK”

Milk is a nutrient – rich liquid food produced by mammary glands of mammals. Milk is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals, including breastfed human infants before they are able to digest solid food. Early – lactation milk is called colostrum, which contains antibodies that strengthen the immune system and thus reduce the…

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National Education Day

Webinar National Education Day

On May 01, Indonesia commemorates National Education Day (Hari Pendidikan Nasional),  the purpose of National Education Day (Hari Pendidikan Nasional) is to appreciate every struggle of educators. In commemoration of the national education day (Hari Pendidikan Nasional), OTTIMMO International Culinary and Patisserie Academy held a webinar with the theme of vocational education, and raised the…

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Beverage

BEVERAGE AND CHARITY

Perceive the cases of malnutrition and children not getting proper education makes us quite concerned, these two things are important things. After all, children are the next generation of this nation, so as much as possible they should get proper education and nutrition. It is very different with the cildren whome growth in a big…

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OTTIMMO charity

Share the Joyful with the Orphans

This is the second time that the OTTIMMO International Culinary and Patissery Academy celebrated its anniversary during the Covid 19 pandemic. Last year we celebrate our Dies Natalis with held our a charity by distributing groceries and some toiletries to several orphanages without doing any activities in the orphanage, but this year we made something…

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LEAFY VEGETABLE

THE LEAFY VEGETABLE

As we know that at this time many people are fond of doing a healthy lifestyle. There are many ways they can do a healthy lifestyle, from exercising regularly and also adjusting their diet. Discussing about the diet, it is not far from the kind of food that their consumed, of course the people will…

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Cooking demonstration

Care for Tuberculosis Sufferers

In order to commemorate World Tuberculosis Day (HTBS) in every 24 March. Ottimmo International in collaboration with Persatuan Pemberantasan Tuberkolusis Indonesia  (PPTI) held a National Webinar as an effort to educate the public about the understanding of TB infectious diseases, Saturday afternoon (27/3/2021). On this occasion, the Head of the JRC PPTI Clinic, dr. Ika…

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Prospective Of Local Food

Prospective and Healthy Of Local Food (Cassava)

Indonesia is known as an agricultural country which means it plays an important role in the agricultural sector throughout the national economy. That is why some Indonesians live from agricultural products or from national products produced from the agricultural sector. Agriculture in a broad sense consists of five sectors, namely food crops, plantations, animal husbandry,…

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Tourism Areas

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Strategic Tourism Areas

OTTIMMO International lecturers and chefs are trusted by Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Kabupaten Pasuruan to become speakers for workshops on processing, packaging and marketing of souvenir products from potatoes on Tuesday, February 23 nd 2021 in Baledono village, Tosari sub-district, Pasuruan regency. This event is entitled Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Management of Strategic…

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balloon whisk

The type and uses of whisk

Whisk come in all shapes and size, so how do you know which whisk is right for your kitchen? Learn about the different types of whisk and see which one are best for cooking your favorite meals: Balloon Whisk : This is one of the most popular types of whisks. The “balloon” is made from…

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Food To Celebrate Chinese New Year

Extraordinary Food To Celebrate Chinese New Year

Siu Mie, Jiaozi, Yu Seng, chicken and duck dishes are often served during the Chinese New Year, but did you know that other unique dishes can also complement dishes to celebrate the Chinese New Year? Of course, the dishes that we has present were unique, delicious and healthy dishes. Through a virtual event (IG Live)…

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Snack For Kids

“Unique Snack For Kids”

This is the first event in the new normal era during this pandemic. To get rid of people’s boredom, and also to welcome the Chinese New Year in February, Icon mall Gresik is holding exhibitions and events at the main atrium Icon Mall. This event will held until mid-February. In a fairly long series of…

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JAJAN PASAR

JAJAN PASAR NEXT LEVEL BIKIN DOMPET MAKIN TEBEL

Indonesia is a country that consists of several islands, because it is rich in culture, Indonesia also has several special snacks from each region. This snack is commonly called by some people as a jajan pasar (traditional snack). Jajan pasar is delicious in terms of taste, but still lacks a high selling value. Some people…

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OTTIMMO Charity

Supplementary Food For Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women

Community Services “Supplementary Food For Pregnant and Brestfeeding Women” OTTIMMO International Lecturer and students conducted community service with topic “Nutritious Supplementary Food based on Healthy Vegetable Noodles, Fusilli Cassava and Mocaf-Spinach Cookies” to pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and kader posyandu in the Lidah Kulon village, Surabaya on Monday, December 14 st 2020. The period of…

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Nutrition In New Normal

Share Nutrition In New Normal at Pakuwon Trade Center

Many people change their lifestyle since the corona virus attacked the environment surround us. Some activity they did to avoid the virus, doing exercise regularly, and also managing a healthy food. Collaboration with Pakuwon Trade Center Management, we Ottimmo join to fill the event they have held, named Food City. The purpose of Food City…

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Cooking Competition

Cooking Competition “Simple but Extraordinary”

Competition inspired by world food day, Ottimmo challenge the skill and creativity of cooking in Ottimmo Cooking Competition 2020. It named Simple But Extraordinary,in this competition we want the participant create quality cuisine with basic ingredients of tofu and tempeh. The purpose of these event are to hone the young people creativity in culinary and…

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Certification of Food & Beverages

Certification of Food & Beverages Service Product Competency (Bil)

This is the first time the food & beverages production competency certification is carried out as a mass by OTTIMMO, LSP Pesona Indonesia Tourism and LSP Food Safety Quality Assurance in 2020. LSP are official institutions that carry out competency certification for participants and professionals such as chef, barista, bartender, baker, etc. There are more…

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kitchen soup - OTTIMMO

100 bowls with happiness within

100 bowls with happiness within.A soup kitchen, meal center, or food kitchen is a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for free or sometimes at a below-market price. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, soup kitchens are often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church or community groups. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food…

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OTTIMMO Internship

Quo Vadis?

If you decide to study at OTTIMMO, you will reach the point to ask the question “quō vādis?” for your internship. It’s a Latin phrase that means “Where are you marching?” or commonly translated as “Where are you going?” If you want to have your internship abroad but are not sure what to do, here…

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

It is conceivable for someone to live having only one extra virgin olive oil. This oil result from the first pressing of olives and is best used as a dressing. It’s a waste to use this sometimes very expensive oil for frying or sautéing – the gihg heat destroys its flavor – and there are…

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Baked Salmon Basil Pesto

New Normal, New Lifestyle

OTTIMMO – During this pandemic, mostly the routine is changing. Work from home, school from home, is becoming new normal things now a days, even shopping from home. During this new normal, some people manage to start their hobby that consume energy, but it is not few people complaining that they gain weight during stay…

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Nutrition for baby

Nutrition in The First 1000 of Life

The first 1000 days of life is a golden period for a child to grow and develop optimally. This is a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment. In Indonesia, result of the basic health research in 2013 show that the prevalence of stunting malnutrition (37,2%) was higher than…

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Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori ChickenA quite popular dish out of Punjab Region in India. This dish basically is a chicken marinated with spices and roasted in a typical cylindrical oven called Tandoor.This dish is considered as one of the healthy Indian dish since the marinade sauce is made from yoghurt and spice mix called Tandoori Masala which made…

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White Chicken Curry

White Chicken Curry

It is a popular Indonesian cuisine during Lebaran Holiday which derived from Central Java. This dish is one of mandatory dish which usually served with Ketupat and Spicy Stir Fried Chicken Liver. Indonesia cuisine usually uses 3 kind of spice paste which are white, yellow and red base spice paste. This white chicken curry is…

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Asian Breakkie Bowl

Asian Brekkie Bowl

Breakfast is one of the most important meal of the day, but for some people it requires big effort to get up a bit earlier to prepare this meal. Actually making breakfast is really simple and if you are creative enough, you can actually make your own Healthy (or Not-so-healthy) breakfast bowl, or Brekkie bowl…

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OTTIMMO Health Protocol

OTTIMMO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROTOCOLOTTIMMO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROTOCOL

We care deeply about health abd safety of our student and staff during the covid 19 pandemic. So we apply strict health protocols in the campus area. The campus activities have not started yet, but we will apply this protocol for anyone who enters the campus area. There are the Ottimmo’s Health Protocol during Covid…

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PREVENTING COVID-19 TRANSMISSION IN RESTAURANT

PREVENTING COVID-19 TRANSMISSION IN RESTAURANT

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that the coronavirus is spread from person to person, mainly through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person sneezes, coughs, or speaks rapidly in close proximity to someone else. Corona virus has inhibited all activities around the world. Including the matter of eating habits in…

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Wagyu beef

WAGYU BEEF HAS BENEFIT IMPACT ON PREVENTING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Wagyu cattle are major beef breeds in Japan. Their marbling has been increased over many decades to meet domestic consumer preferences. highly marbled beef is greatly prized for meat cooking methods such as Sukiyaki for Japanese. Like other kinds of foods, meat has three functions: It provides nutrition; It provides deliciousness; and It prevents disease.…

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OTTIMMO Dies Natalis

Anniversary of OTTIMMO (Dies Natalis)

April 29 is an important day for Ottimmo, because that day is the anniversary of Ottimmo (Dies Natalis). We are very grateful to be able to go through everything for 7 years. In our form of gratitude, we want to share our joy with others. With the theme “Our joy is theirs too” we took…

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kids cooking

The Magic Box For The Kids

As a precautios measure during covid-19 pandemic, people are encouraged to stay at home. Due to this situation Kids Academy is launching Magic Cooking Box, a box that can support children’s passion in culinary. The advantage of Magic Cooking Box is that children can cook and make pastries at the comfort of their own house.…

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OTTIMMO Holds Demo and Competition

Dessert Day, OTTIMMO Holds Demo and Competition

OTTIMMO — The OTTIMMO International Campus continues to strive to transmit knowledge in the culinary field. Finally, the campus in the Citraland area, West Surabaya, was involved in the Dessert Day “It’s a Cheat Day” event that was held by the Pakuwon Trade Center (PTC) on 4 to 8 March 2020. In the event OTTIMMO…

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Philly Cheese Steak

Philly Cheese Steak

Philly Cheese Steak, or commonly known as cheese steak or cheese steak sandwich, is basically a sandwich made from thinly sliced pieces of grilled beef steak and melted cheese in a long hoagie roll. It is a popular street food and fast food among Americans. As the name implies it has strong roots in city…

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healthy food demo

Today’s Foods Must Be Healthy

OTTIMMO – Many assume modern or contemporary foods contain ingredients that are not good for health. But in fact it is not the case, because even modern food can be created while still paying attention to the nutrition in it. Pasta with Pesto Sauce for example. This Italian food does look like ordinary spaghetti noodles…

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Classic pesto sauce

Classic Pesto Sauce

Pesto sauce is one of the famous Italian style sauce from the northern Italy. It is originally consists only Italian sweet basil, olive oil, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese blended together. This sauce is known in Italy as Pesto alla Genovese. The name originally comes from the word “pesta” which means to pound or to…

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German Potato Salad

German potato salad

This is one of the famous potato side dish originating from southern germany. This dish is known in local language as “kartoffelsalat” The northern germany also has a variation of this dish which is almost similar to american style potato salad. The main difference between german and american style potato salad lies in the dressing,…

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Politeknik Jember

OTTIMMO Welcomes Politeknik Jember’s Visit

OTTIMMO – On Monday (10/2), OTTIMMO International welcomed a special guest, students of Politeknik Jember. As many as 98 students from the Food Technology study program made observations on food and beverage at the OTTIMMO campus. At the campus in the Citraland area, Surabaya, they had the opportunity to see firsthand culinary arts kitchen, baking…

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OTTIMMO Graduation

*OTTIMMO 3rd Graduation

Modern Chefs Aren’t Just Good at Cooking OTTIMMO-Facing the increasingly rapid development of the culinary world, the demand for the chef profession also continues to increase. Even the chef profession is developing. Now it’s not just a cook, but chefs also have the ability to do business. This is the concern of the OTTIMMO International…

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Beautiful Plate Presentation

Tips To Improve Your Plate Presentation

When food is put in front of us we eat first with our eyes. We imagine the tastes and the textures that we’re going to enjoy, how the flavours will balance each other out, we’re curious and hopefully excited about what we’re about to eat. Therefore the presentation of a dish is vital for creating…

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flagship university

Ottimmo Is A Flagship University

OTTIMMO — As a fast-growing culinary campus, Ottimmo International was awarded as a flagship university from the Coordinator of the Higher Education Service Institute (L2Dikti), Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. This award was given on October 30, 2019 numbered 168 / L7 / SK / KL / AKU / 2019. In the award,…

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Baking and Pastry

Students with Special Needs? Why Not

OTTIMMO — Ottimmo International has a commitment to become an open college for anyone. The best culinary academy in Indonesia students come from various backgrounds and areas. Now Ottimmo is more open with the acceptance of students with special needs, in accordance with the mandate of Pendidikan Tinggi (Dikti). Starting in the academic year 2019-2020…

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ICSP

Ottimmo Involved in 2019 ICSP

OTTIMMO – For the first time, Ottimmo International joined the 2019 International Community Service Program (ICSP). In collaboration with Petra Christian University (UK) and the Al Wali Foundation from the Netherlands, ICSP 2019 was held in Dusun Parang, Parang Village, Kediri Regency. In the event which was held from July 16, 2019 to August 5,…

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Coffee in Jember

Learning Coffee To Jember

OTTIMMO — The Coffee Class held by Ottimmo this year is different from previous years. This time the students were taken directly to the coffee processing center, the Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute (Puslitkoka) in Jember, East Java, on 29 and 30 September 2019. For two days the 5th semester students were in Jember specifically…

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New Challenges for Verona Class

“Small Projects”, New Challenges for Verona Class

OTTIMMO—The students of Verona class had been given new challenge for their second semester. They need to finish four projects within April 2019. These projects were being held for the first time this year. In the previous years, there were only two projects for first grade students. Titled “Small Project”, Ottimmo’s first year student will…

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OTTIMMO dies natalis

Happy Birthday, Ottimmo!

OTTIMMO—Happy Birthday, Ottimmo! At April 29th 2019, Ottimmo International celebrate its 5th birthday. The campus which located in the elite residence of Citraland Surabaya was holding several events which involving all staffs and students. The celebration of Ottimmo’s 5th birthday has been held within 2 days, at April 29th and 30th. On the first day,…

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OTTIMMO “B” Accreditation

Ottimmo Achieve “B” Accreditation

OTTIMMO—A good news for Ottimmo International Campus approaching their 5th birthday. Ottimmo has achieved “B” accreditation from Badan Akreditasi Nasional Perguruan Tinggi (BAN-PT) through SK no. 375/SK/BAN-PT/Akred//Dipl-III/III/2019. The “B” accreditation for Culinary Study Program is valid through March 12th 2019 until March 12th 2024. Ottimmo International Academy Director, Zaldy Iskandar happily stated that “B” accreditation…

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OTTIMMO Graduation

Ottimmo Graduated 77 Students

Ottimmo – A total of 77 students of Ottimmo International that has finished their studies was graduated on 02 November 2018 at Vasa Hotel Surabaya. They are from batch of Venice (2015)   Graduation of Ottimmo is indeed quite unique because different from another university which the students wearing a toga, here we use a…

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IGG OTTIMMO

International Gourmet Galore (IGG) 2018

Flavoria, The Food Euphoria OTTIMMO International have succeed helding International Gourmet Galore (IGG) 2018. Was held on 30 September 2018, IGG which the committee were all students, this time picking the theme was Flavoria, a bazaar with vintage atmosphere. IGG which an annual event was held in OTTIMMO campus were visited by almost 2000 people.…

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Basic of Baking

The Basic of Baking and Pastry

OTTIMMO – The beginning of August 2018 is a new experience of the Class of Florence. At least 96 students start their study in the baking and pastry class. In the first week they were taught the basic of baking and pastry.   The students were divided into two groups which is Fondant and Marzipan.…

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New Student Orientation

New Student Orientation 2018

Introduction To Campus Environments And Rules and Regulations   OTTIMMO – the new students of OT starting their new academic study in Monday, July 31 2018. As an introduction program, 104 students start their orientation program.   For four days, the students were introduced to new rules and also the new environments, aside than doing…

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New Changes

Always Present New Changes

OTTIMMO – As a young educational institution, Ottimmo is constantly making improvement every year. The changes that have intensively been made are lecture system, especially practical study in Culinary Arts Kitchen and Baking-Pastry Arts Kitchen.   The chefs continue to make modifications and improvements in the lecture system and some refer to other advanced institutions.…

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Culinary Arts Challenge

Culinary Arts Challenge

Between Skill, Mental and Luck OTTIMMO – Culinary Arts Challenge is an annual event devoted to second-graders or Baking-Pastry Arts. Students who take part will be pitted his ability in the field of culinary, both practical skills in the kitchen and theory. Within this year, Culinary Arts Challenge has brought up three finalists; Azizi Ilsa,…

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OTTIMMO and TAFE

Ottimmo Close Relationship With TAFE

OTTIMMO – OTTIMMO International and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Queensland, Australia, are in close relationship in 2018. After beginning the inaugural visit in November 2017, representatives from Australia’s largest vocational education institution, TAFE have three times visited Ottimmo Campus at Telaga Golf TC 4 No 2-3, Citraland, Surabaya. On the first occasion, TAFE sent…

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Dual Degree Program

OTTIMMO Open Dual Degree Program

OTTIMMO – OTTIMMO International Culinary & Pastry Academy continues to move forward in order to be an excellent educational institution. To answer public’s expectations, in 2018 OTTIMMO is not only provide the path of Diploma 3 (D-3) program, but also provides an opportunity for students of OTTIMMO to continue their studies to Strata 1 (S-1)…

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Factory Visit

OTTIMMO Factory Visit

Learn About Bakpao And Tea OTTIMMO—One of the program for OTTIMMO International students in November is Factory Visit. Factory Visit is a supporting activity aimed to improve the knowledge and experience of students in food and beverage processing. As a vocational education and the best of culinary and patisserie art academy in Indonesia, OTTIMMO International…

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Thanksgiving Luncheon

Thanksgiving Luncheon 2017

OTTIMMO– Thanksgiving Luncheon is one of students project held every November. Half of students from Florence Class (semester 1) set in the kitchen brigade prepare welcome drinks, appetizer, main course and dessert, for at least 20 guests. The guest are primarily members of the Surabaya Expatriate Women Association. In the Thanksgiving Luncheon 2017 on November…

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OTTIMMO International Gourmet Galore

*International Gourmet Galore 2017

A Night Full Of Food, Love, And Ghost! OTTIMMO-International Gourmet Galore (IGG) successfully held on November 4th 2017. Not less than 1500 guests came to Ottimmo International to enjoy the event. This year, “Spooktacular” became the theme of this annual food fertival. The word “Spooktacular” referred to spooky and spectacular, because the Halloween atmosphere in…

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Trial Luncheon

Students Introduced to Project Management through Trial Luncheon

OTTIMMO— OTTIMMO International MasterGourmet Academy freshmen will have two projects, Thanksgiving Luncheon and Easter Luncheon. Those two trial luncheon are always held every year to train the students on project management. The first semester students will be divided into two groups. The first group will work on the Thanksgiving Luncheon project in November, while the…

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Wine Tasting Workshop

Learning about Wine through “Wine Tasting Workshop”

OTTIMMO—After the students were introduced to various types of coffee, the fifth semester students were introduced to wine through a ‘Wine Tasting Workshop.’ It was held on 11-12 October 2017 and the students gained significant knowledge on the drink created from fermentation. The presented learning material was quite concise. It covers the types of wine,…

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Knife Skills

Knife Skills, The First Lesson

OTTIMMO–First semester students of OTTIMMO International had their first practical lesson this week. The first lesson they learn is  knife skills. It is the basic skills of a chef before learning another kind of skills. The lessons on knife skills were given for two weeks to the first semester students. All of them learn the…

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Team Building

To Improve Organization, CASO Holds Training Centre

OTTIMMO–Culinary Art Student Organisation (CASO) of Ottimmo International Culinary and Pattisserie School has established its new management for 2017. A collaboration of third and first semester students will run CASO who has targeted some changes.   Before starting their works, the members of CASO gathered in a Training Camp held in Khalwat Bethlehem, Wagir of…

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Popular Patisseries

Students Introduced to Popular Patisseries

OTTIMMO—The third semester students or baking-pastry class have learned a lot from the last three weeks. In early part of their learning in baking and pastry kitchen, students were introduced and taught how to make special pastries from around the world. They learned how to make Bagels, Pretzels, Ciabatta, Naan, Grissini, Foccaccia and some other…

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new student orientation

Ottimmo Freshmen Orientation Commenced

OTTIMMO—Freshmen of Ottimmo International in 2017 are having their orientation in the campus of Otttimmo International. There are 110 freshmen taking parts in the orientation held for four days from Monday, August 7 to August 10.     The orientation covers introduction to the campus and positive activities conducted for students. On the first day,…

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Graduation Ceremony

Not Merely A Cook, But A Maestro

OTTIMMO-Ottimmo International Mastergourmet Academy has completed the first graduation of Diploma III program successfully. There were 95 students graduated in a magnificent occasion in Fairfield, Marriot Hotel, Jalan Mayjen Sungkono, Surabaya, on Saturday, July 29. The graduation was attended by the founder of Jawa Pos, Dahlan Iskan, giving precious lessons to the graduates. Ottimmo International…

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Mr. Dahlan Iskan

One Special Morning with Mr. Dahlan Iskan

Ottimmo have special guest on Friday, 28 July: Mr. Dahlan Iskan! Mr. Dahlan came to Ottimmo this morning and did some sports with us. He even became Ottimmo personal trainer! 🙂       After that, Mr. Dahlan visited Ottimmo facilities and tried some cuisines specially made by Ottimmo chefs. He enjoyed them very much and…

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OTTIMMO Students and Chef Zaldy

Ottimmo Students Finish 2017 Even Semester

OTTIMMO–All students of Ottimmo International have finished their second and fourth semester in 2017. Their studies ended last weekend after two weeks of busy schedules. They have long holiday until August 2017. In the end of their second and fourth semester, the students have two kinds of exam, Final Exam and Final Project. Both look…

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Cooking Competition Winner

SMKK Mater Amabilis Sweeps Medals In Session 3

OTTIMMO–SMKK Mater Amabilis takes all medals of Ottimmo International Culinary Competition Session 3, on Saturday, May 20. There were five teams from this school and all of them win the first place to the fifth place.   The members of the first winning team were Isadora Harum, Vincentius Anthony and Regina Clara. The got the…

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Maria Yolanda Wenur

Cooking is Always Useful Anytime

OTTIMMO– In Ottimmo International, there are a lot if students who have other routines besides learning at campus. They also do their activities based on their talents and potentials. One of the students with great achievements outside campus is Maria Yolanda Wenur.   The student of Baking & Pastry Class, who will finish her fourth…

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Culinary Challenge

Culinary Challenge Enters Final Phase

OTTIMMO–Ottimmo International Culinary Challenge is reaching its final phase after a week ago the eighth phase was completed. At the moment, there are only six students remaining in the contest among fourth semester students and they will have a showdown this week.   The remaining students in Culinary Challenge are Alvin Liady, Antonio Sanjaya, Widodo…

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Kitchen utensils

Cleanliness is Absolute

OTTIMMO— When we talk about cooking, the commoners will naturally think of the taste and the presentation. They are indeed the simplest parameters to judge a dish. However, there are some other parameters which are more important.   One of the important aspects which is prioritized in Ottimmo International, besides the taste and the presentation,…

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Sushi

Sushi Ends Asian Culinary Lessons

OTTIMMO—The lessons on Asian culinary arts was ended with Japanese food. For the whole week, the students have learned to cook Ramen, Yakisoba and Sushi.   For the last few weeks, second semester students have learned various Asian dishes, from Indian, Korean, Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Malaysian and Indonesian food. After finishing the lessons on…

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Student Cooking class

Communication Plays Crucial Role for Chefs

OTTIMMO – Chef as a profession is not only about the skill of cooking in the kitchen. More than that, a chef needs to have other skills to support their performance in the kitchen. In Ottimmo International Mastergourmet Academy, the students do not only learn to cook various dishes in the world. They also learn…

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Chef Yono

Chef Yono: Believe in Your Dreams

OTTIMMO — Few weeks ago Ottimmo International welcomed a special guest: Chef Widjiono Purnomo, CFBE, CEC, or known as Chef Yono. Chef Yono is the founder of Yono’s Scholarship Foundation, a foundation founded in New York that concerns about education in culinary academy. He came to Indonesia to scout young talents in culinary to be given scholarship. Chef Yono,…

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Fine Dining Dish

Introduction to Spices for Students

OTTIMMO— Next week lessons in the kitchen of Ottimmo International are still about Asian Culinary. There are some dishes they need to learn to cook for the whole week, Indian, Indonesian and Malaysian food.   Early next week, three Indian dishes will be presented to them, Chapati, Chicken Rice Pilaf and Cikpea-Veggie Curry. Special for…

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Cooking Competition

SMA Petra 1 Comes Out on Top in the Competition

OTTIMMO—Contestants from SMA Petra 1 dominated the second session of Ottimmo International Cooking Competition 2017 on Saturday, April 8, 2017. Two teams from the school have won the first and the second place of the cooking competition. The team at the First Place from SMA Petra 1, winning Rp 10 million prize money were   Alvaro,…

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Luncheon Event

EASTER LUNCHEON: Better Making Mistakes Now Than Later

OTTIMMO—Besides having lessons in the kitchen, students of OTTIMMO International are also assigned to projects training their skills to organize events. One of the events was Easter Luncheon which was held on Friday, April 7, in the campus of OTTIMMO International. As many as 44 students divided into four groups, serving dishes for 22 expatriates…

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Cooking Competition

Cooking Competition for Senior High School

OTTIMMO—Ottimmo International Martergourmet Academyis organizing a competition to show senior high school students’ skills in the kitchen. This Saturday, April 8, there will be 12 schools taking parts in Ottimmo International Cooking Competition. Cooking Competition is the second session out of four sessions to be held from March to June. Each session is limited to…

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Cooking demonstration

Introduction to Asian Culinary Arts

OTTIMMO—After four weeks learning to cook European dishes, students of Ottimmo International Mastergourmet Academy presented with a different challenge. As of this week, they are introduced with Asian dishes which are very different from the European ones, either from how they are prepared or served. The first dishes presented to the second semester students are…

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COOKING COMPETITION

CONGRATULATIONS! WINNERS AT CUISINE VAGANZA COOKING COMPETITION 2013

On November 22-23, 2013, 5 OTTIMMO teams participated the Cuisine Vaganza Cooking Competition 2013. First day of competitiona, all of them made it through the next round that held on the next day. Day two, 2 teams from 5 went to the semi-final round. They succeed to beat other participant and won the First prize…

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KIDS COOKING CLASS

THE PERFECT FRENCH MACARON

Are you a Macaron lover? Do you know that Macaron have feet? Do you know how to make a Perfect Macaron? Yes, our Short Course Gourmet Frenzy Program this time is about Macaron! with the hands-on training, you will learn how to make the perfect macaron from our expert Chef. Take the chance and peek…

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ORIENTATION DAY

ORIENTATION DAY & NEW ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Important date for OTTIMMO New Student Academic Year 2014/2015 Orientation Day will be held on August 12-15, 2014. Orientation is mandatory, every student should participate from the first day until the last day. New Semester Begin starts on Monday August 18, 2014 accordance with lesson schedule that will be distributed during Orientation Day.

KIDS COOKING CLASS

KIDS COOKING CLASS WITH MSCS STUDENTS

Very glad to see the joy of children in the kitchen! At that moment we had almost a hundred little guests coming from Mawar Sharon Christian School. Those all Grade 1 students brought their excitement and curiosity to our Culinary Kitchen and they could not wait to start making their own burger. With the help…

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