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Sharing recipes is a love language. It’s the way we connect with people and share a part of ourselves with others. We also use recipes to share culture and family history. So here’s a recipe from my Canadian side of the family. These bars are usually made at Christmas time, but I like to make them

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Hello from ACI! I hope you are all doing well out there and that you are safely navigating the beginning stages of Hell on Earth (also known as Summer in Arizona)! For this newsletter, I wanted to pay tribute to one of our wonderful instructors who recently decided to move on to pursue other adventures in

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Happy Spring everybody! I hope this letter finds you well. Lately, I’ve been embracing how lucky I am to have found two intertwined careers that allow you to continue learning in nearly infinite ways: cooking and teaching. In these two disciplines, it would be truly impossible to know everything. With cooking, there is no way that

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One of my favorite cakes to make this time of year is a Lemon Chiffon Cake. It’s soft and light with an incredible lemon flavor. I fill it with zesty lemon curd and top it with Chantilly cream made with mascarpone cheese to make the perfect spring dessert. If you love lemon as much as I

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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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