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Hello ACI family! I’ll be honest with you here: for this newsletter installment, I don’t have a lot of exciting “news” to discuss, so I figured instead I’d share a recent culinary story with you. I hope you enjoy it. Over our summer break, I took a nice week-long trip with my family. We had an

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Let me introduce you to a person who made cookies at a large hotel in Phoenix. Every day when he came in, he knew his job was to mix, scoop, bake and set up cookies. Every day was the same. After some time, he became very good at what he did, paying attention to every detail.

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I will be the first to say: success in this industry does not have to mean working in a Michelin starred restaurant. Not even to the extent of the aforementioned esteem, culinary opportunities are not limited to working in a traditional restaurant. Food is a necessity and everyone needs to eat. Where there are people, there

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Hello everybody! I just wanted to say “hi” with a half-way-through-the-year-already-June-2022-news-letter. I hope you are all doing well. The biggest announcement on our end is the recent retirement of our beloved Front of the House instructor Jim Baker. I was fortunate enough to work with Mr. Baker all the way back at Mary Elaine’s at the

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Date: Friday, June 3, 2022Registration: 12:00 pmCeremony: 1:00 pmLocation: McDowell Mountain Community Church. 10700 N 124th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85259 Reception: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmLocation: Arizona Culinary Institute. 10585N 114th Street. Scottsdale AZ, 85259

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