News & Events

Hello ACI family! I’ll be honest with you here: for this newsletter installment, I don’t have a lot of exciting “news” to discuss, so I figured instead I’d share a recent culinary story with you. I hope you enjoy it. Over our summer break, I took a nice week-long trip with my family. We had an

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Let me introduce you to a person who made cookies at a large hotel in Phoenix. Every day when he came in, he knew his job was to mix, scoop, bake and set up cookies. Every day was the same. After some time, he became very good at what he did, paying attention to every detail.

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I will be the first to say: success in this industry does not have to mean working in a Michelin starred restaurant. Not even to the extent of the aforementioned esteem, culinary opportunities are not limited to working in a traditional restaurant. Food is a necessity and everyone needs to eat. Where there are people, there

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Hello everybody! I just wanted to say “hi” with a half-way-through-the-year-already-June-2022-news-letter. I hope you are all doing well. The biggest announcement on our end is the recent retirement of our beloved Front of the House instructor Jim Baker. I was fortunate enough to work with Mr. Baker all the way back at Mary Elaine’s at the

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Date: Friday, June 3, 2022Registration: 12:00 pmCeremony: 1:00 pmLocation: McDowell Mountain Community Church. 10700 N 124th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85259 Reception: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmLocation: Arizona Culinary Institute. 10585N 114th Street. Scottsdale AZ, 85259

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The culinary industry has been revolutionized as a result of explosive advances in technology and the concurrent growth in global population. In 2021 the global foodservice and food retail industry generated US$ 8.3 trillion of which the United States was responsible for US$ 1.7 trillion. The media is significantly responsible for this unprecedented expansion, especially with

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Greetings ACI Family! I hope this message finds you well. Word on the street is that everybody, every hotel, every resort, and every restaurant is still hiring and looking for talent, so hopefully, none of you are struggling to find employment! If you are though, please please please get a hold of us at the school

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The dessert a pastry chef creates is art. Art is an expression of creativity and as chefs, we create with our minds and our hearts. As with any form of art, it is subjective. It is entirely up to the guest to decide if it's good or bad, however, dessert can't just be appealing to the

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Hello All- I wanted to address something that we have all encountered in our digital world. The internet has been an incredible resource for chefs and students to stay on trend and share new ideas. Some of my favorite examples are: using Instagram for following some of my favorite chefs, using YouTube to check out what

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Hello ACI family! It’s officially “Spring Break” here at the school! And by “Spring Break” what I actually mean is: every 5 years or so we have to do a calendar-reset by throwing in an extra week of vacation for students. Students get to enjoy a bonus full week off! However, the entire staff is definitely

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