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October 2014 Is it truly possible that the Holiday season is already upon us? Things have been busy at your favorite culinary school this year (that’s us :o)! Our most recent wine tasting event was a huge success, so I guess that means we’ll have to keep doing them. In fact, we may be trying to

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ACI Fellowship Program A new opportunity for excelling students to continue their education with our instructors, and even use the program to fulfill their externship requirements. Starting November 10th, we are rolling out the new ACI Fellowship Program. This is an opportunity for students that have demonstrated excellent performance at the school to continue their educational

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Congratulations everyone…we just survived another Arizona summer. Now, let’s enjoy the next 8 months! For starters, dinner service in Du Jour is going on for about another 4 weeks. Chef Villarico and his crew will be cooking for the public on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. Students still receive 50% off, so if you’re the type

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Summer is upon us, we are back from our 2 week vacation, and things are off and running! It looks like this fall is gonna be a pretty busy place around campus. We have a few very strong starts coming up, night classes are jamming, and there are definitely going to be more people on campus

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From Executive Chef Christopher Wolf, CCC, CEC, CPI, CSW March has been BUSY!  What an exciting month here at ACI!  Where to begin?  Well, we had our first ACI wine flight school, and it sold out way faster than expected.  We brought in 4 very cool wines (not your everyday stuff), and then paired 4 food

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