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Arizona Culinary Institute ACI will be holding its first in-person graduation ceremony since 2020. The graduation is set for Friday June 11, 2021 at 1: pm. The Ceremony will be held at McDowell Mountain Church and the reception directly follows at 2: pm at the Arizona Culinary Campus. For those graduating students you will be receiving

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Greetings from the kitchens at Arizona Culinary Institute, I’m Chef Kevin Boyle. Since joining ACI two years ago I have been teaching meat/seafood fabrication, saucier and batch cookery and will soon be teaching our Basic Culinary Arts curriculum as well. I am a 1994 graduate of Northern Arizona University’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Management. Like

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Hi there! I’m Chef Erin Coopey, the Director of Education at Arizona Culinary Institute. I teach Food and Beverage Management and Career Development. I’ve always loved cooking and entertaining, but I came to the professional culinary world in a round-about way. While attending university, I worked as a singing waitress and later as a server in

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Hello!  I am Chef Tyler Romine and I teach Basic Culinary Arts at Arizona Culinary Institute.  My passion for the industry traces all the way back to my early childhood days.  My first memories in the kitchen are of helping my mother with dinner preparations at the ripe old age of 3.  I knew early on

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Hello everyone!  Chef Wolf here, just doing a quick check-in.  Things here on campus are going really well, and hopefully things out there are looking up as well.  The only thing I really want to talk about is that there are a LOT of employers that are actively looking to hire cooks/chefs right now.  As things

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