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During a recent open house at ACI, I described the Meat Fabrication and Saucier class to a group of student candidates. During a question-and-answer period, a cautiously enthusiastic prospect asked an excellent question. She asked if a culinary degree limits one to working in a kitchen for an entire career. In and of itself, a culinary degree

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Hello all! I hope that your 2024 is off to a wonderful start. My apologies for not writing a January newsletter, but then again, I can’t imagine anyone was just sitting around waiting for it, either. This should be a monthly thing, but sometimes I’m just busy! Or, sometimes, I just don’t have anything to write

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Hello! I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a very happy holiday season. If you have any time off work for whatever holiday you choose to celebrate, I hope you can spend it with people that you care about. However, I also recognize that the service industry requires many of you to work

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Friday, December 1, 2023 1:00 pm - McDowell Mountain Community Church, 10700 N 124th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85259 2:00-3:00 pm - Reception at Arizona Culinary Institute. 10585N 114th Street. Scottsdale AZ, 85259 ACI Graduation Program

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Happy Halloween everybody! If you stay in this whole-crazy-cooking business long enough, I hope you get to experience this next thing I’m going to talk about. One of the greatest feelings in this business is watching someone that worked under you, someone you trained, going on to do great things.  I know as an instructor I

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