News & Events

        Hello ACI family!  Welcome to the end of another fabulous year! I want to say congratulations to all of our students that graduated on Friday, December 2nd.  Graduation days are very proud days for us.  There’s such a great feeling in helping people open the door to their career and graduation is

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October 2016, From The Executive Chef: Greetings everyone, and happy October! I hope the season is treating you well. This is about the time of year where business in The Valley is ramping-up again, and all the cooks and chefs out there have plenty to keep them busy! A quick recap of the Glenn Humphrey Memorial

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Happy Fall everybody! We have survived another summer! It is so nice to finally feel the kitchens cooling down a little bit, and now we get to enjoy 8 months of amazing weather. The biggest thing on my mind right now is Saturday, October 15th. What’s happening that day you ask? Well, it’s our 2nd Annual

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Hello ACI family. I feel honored, yet again, to have the opportunity to update you on all-things-Arizona-Culinary in this newsletter. We have plenty of things going on to talk about, but perhaps that can wait. For this month’s installment, I find myself in a period of reflection. As many of you probably know, ACI recently had

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        Greetings everyone! I hope you’re all doing your best to stay cool and comfortable during our lovely Arizona summer. I want to begin this newsletter by welcoming a new member to our team: Chef Creighton Schroeder. Chef is joining us as our Director of Education. That means that in addition to teaching

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              ACI News Letter:  June 2016 From the Chef Christopher Wolf, ccc, cce, csw, cpi Hello from Arizona Culinary Institute! I hope you’re having a wonderful June thus far.  We are preparing for our summer shutdown which will happen over the week of the 4th of July. The office will

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                    June 8, 2016 Arizona Culinary Institute has recently entered an agreement with the Wynn Las Vegas Resort to create an exciting Internship/employment opportunity for ACI students who need to complete their outside training or graduates looking for employment. There are still details being finalized, but ACI

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Announcement:  El Cellar de Can Roca (Voted 2015 Best Restaurant in the WORLD) collaboration with Arizona Culinary Institute!  There are too many exciting details to possibly squeeze into a brief social media announcement, so here is a brief summary: The Roca Brothers and their staff will be in town in August hosting a series of “Pop-up”

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Congratulations to all of the Arizona Culinary Institute Graduates who Graduated Today 2016 Graduation Program

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      Chef Christopher Wolf, ccc,cce, csw, cpi, Executive Chef Arizona Culinary Institute Happy May everyone! Lots of topics to chat about this month…some items I can be loud and vocal about, but some items are still “under-construction” so I can only offer little teasers. I guess that just means you’ll have to keep paying

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