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Arizona Culinary Institute Has just been approved to offer 2 new shorter certificate programs for 2018. Starting with The January 8, 2018 Start ACI will be offering along with its Award Winning Diploma Program a Certificate in Culinary Arts and a Certificate in Baking and Pastry. Both of these new programs will be offered during the

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  Congratulations to all of the Arizona Culinary Institute Students who will be graduating on Friday December 1, 2017 December 2017 Program

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Happy Halloween everyone! I wanted to kick off this month’s newsletter with a big “thank you” to everyone that was involved with our ACI Family Day and 5k Fun-run at our October 14th open house.  It was a wonderful event.  Whether you showed up to work, play, run, or eat, we appreciate everyone that took the

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Do you remember Mary Elaine's at the Phoenician Resort? The Mobil 5 star rated restaurant. Did you know that 2 instructors at Arizona Culinary Institute worked there? Arizona Culinary Institutes Executive Chef Christopher Wolf, and James Baker both worked there under great Chefs Alex Stratta and Bradford Thompson. Well on Saturday November 18, 2017 Chef Wolf

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Hello everyone! I hope the Fall season is treating you all well. I’ve certainly noticed a difference in the temperatures of the kitchens around the school, and I hope you’re feeling it in your kitchens too! I wanted to extend a quick welcome to the upcoming AM and PM classes starting on Monday, October 2nd. We

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Come join Arizona Culinary Institute on Saturday October 14, 2017 for our 3rd annual Family Fun Day. We will be having the Annual Chef Glenn Humphrey Memorial Fun Run, Open House, Food Drive, Bake Sale and Barbecue Lunch. There will be plenty to do for the whole family, food, bounce house, face painting, cotton candy, popcorn

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Join Arizona Culinary Institute for our Wine Flight Class ” A Taste of Japan” 5 amazing tasting courses with wines from Japan. Presented by Chef James West and the students of Arizona Culinary Institute. Thursday September 28, 2017 One seating at 6:30 Prompt $55 per person Includes tax and gratuity.

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It never fails: every time I can see Fall on the horizon, I feel like my “to-do” list here at the school starts to get bigger and bigger. Well, this year seems no different. Why? Check it out: We just had a new Day-time Basics class begin this week and we are very excited to have

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Join Arizona Culinary Institute for our Wine Flight Class ” A Taste of Germany” 5 amazing tasting courses with wines from Austria and Germany. Presented by Chef Robert Wilson and the students of Arizona Culinary Institute. Thursday August 31, 2017 One seating at 6:30 Prompt $55 per person Includes tax and gratuity.

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Happy July everyone! We are back from our Summer break and I wanted to take a moment to welcome our newest students on campus: on Monday, July 10th we started a new Day-class and a new Night-class, with 11 students in each class. Myself and Chef Maccherola are lucky to be the ones teaching their Basic’s

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