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!
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
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"]
Classes start at Arizona Culinary Institute on Monday, September 27th. One of the most important skills that you will learn in your new Basics I class, is knife skills. Today, as our August class is nearing the end of their six- week basic training , they were tested on their knife cuts. Chef Sayre was grading