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Beau MacMillan, Executive Chef of Elements (located at The Sanctuary) , and Bill Nassikas, Owner of the The Sanctuary spoke to our Management class today. Chef McMillan, who is on the ACI Advisory Board, has wrapped up taping his first season of “Worst Cooks in America”. He just returned from filming a couple of episodes of

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Arizona Culinary Institute welcomes Chef Santos Villarico, who recently joined us from Le Cordon Bleu at Scottsdale. Chef Villarico will be teaching our Advanced Cuisine class, which cooks daily for our restaurant guests. Chef Villarico was born in the Phillipines, but moved here 32 years ago. He worked at the Fairmont Princess Resort for seven years

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Rebekah Quintero began classes at Arizona Culinary Institute in July. You may have noticed her as our student caretaker of the ACI Herb Garden or volunteering for any number of projects. Rebekah is 19 years old, and she and her husband have a 1 ½ year old daughter. She was home schooled throughout junior high and

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ACI PM Student Jeff Vegso demonstrates (in the photos)  making TVP (Texturized Vegetable Protein) Raviolis in the Kitchen Portion of our Nutrition class. TVP is a vegetarian protein that the students made into mock “Italian sausage” for the ravioli filling. Making fresh pasta is one of the many exciting skills you will learn at Arizona Culinary.[gallery

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It’s amazing to see the projects that students have made in the Advanced Pastry Department after only one week ! Kevin Fallscheer made this great fall themed wedding cake and Robin Carlson made a cake that could be used as a wedding or baby shower cake,[gallery link="file"]

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