News & Events

  • 15
  • Oct2010

ACI | Culinary Competition Team

Here are some photos from the Arizona Culinary Institute's Student Culinary Competition Team practice on 10/9/2010 [gallery link="file"]

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  • 15
  • Oct2010

ACI | Food Network Sponsorship AD

Arizona Culinary Institute will sponsor a range of holiday cooking programs this 2010 Holiday Season. here is the sponsor tag Food Network Commercial

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  • 15
  • Oct2010

ACI Visits Happy Valley Charter School

Happy Valley Charter School invited Chef Rebecca Chazan to speak at their morning assemblies today. Students are studying “Heroes” and included Chefs in the group of careers that they wanted to learn about. They are studying Julia Childs and Emeril Lagasse. To decorate for the assembly, they made a wall of photos of themselves as chefs!

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  • 15
  • Oct2010

ACI Chefs Table | October 14, 2010

ACI hosted another "Chefs Table" on Thursday October 14, 2010 featuring wines by Michael Keenan.  Thanks to Dave Woods of Frank-Lin Fine Wines and ACI Graduate David Zickl for making this a great evening. Look for more "Chefs Tables" in the future. chefs table menu 10-14

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  • 08
  • Oct2010

Tasting Menu a Success

Due to the success of our new Tasting Menu on October 6 & 7, we will feature another one on Wednesday evening, October 13th,. We are already sold out for dinner service on October 14th, however. Last night’s tasting menu included a five (5) course menu ( see the menu) featuring a tantalizing starter (amuse bouche),

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  • 08
  • Oct2010

ACI Student Wins NRA Scholarship

Congratulations to ACI student Drew Nochta for winning a $2500 academic scholarship from the National Restaurant Association. Drew’s scholarship is sponsored by Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! organization. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding High School students. Drew began the process which included writing several essays at the end of his senior year of high school as he

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  • 08
  • Oct2010

Advanced Baking|10-2010

Advanced Baking | Student projects from 10/8/2010 [gallery link="file"]

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  • 05
  • Oct2010

Beau MacMillan visits ACI Management Class

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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  • 04
  • Oct2010

Du Jour Tasting Menu | October 6 & 7

Dinner October 6 & 7, 2010 In our continuing effort to train the chefs of tomorrow, Arizona Culinary Institute announces it’s new Tasting Menu. This five (5) course menu will give our students the opportunity to show off their culinary skills with all new flavor pairings, for the minimal cost of $20 per person. You will

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  • 27
  • Sep2010

ACI Welcomes New Basic Culinary Arts Students

Welcome to our incoming culinary students that started classes today. There is a lot of excitement in the air today as a new group of students begin to take their passion for cooking and make their culinary career a reality ! [gallery link="file"]

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