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Arizona Culinary Institute welcomes Chef Santos Villarico, who recently joined us from Le Cordon Bleu at Scottsdale. Chef Villarico will be teaching our Advanced Cuisine class, which cooks daily for our restaurant guests. Chef Villarico was born in the Phillipines, but moved here 32 years ago. He worked at the Fairmont Princess Resort for seven years

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Arizona Culinary Institute will be having an "Open House" on Saturday October 9, 2010. Chef Glenn Humphrey, CEC, CCE, and Chef Santos Villarico, CEC, CCE, CPI will be demonstrating "Basic and Advance" techniques on fruit and vegetable carvings. Click here for a short video melon carving1 Open House starts at 10:am and runs until 1:pm Call

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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

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ACI had the pleasure of a visit by Farmer Casey Stechnij of Superstition Farms and Chef Jennifer Johnson of Udder Delights (Superstition Farms’ kitchen). Superstition Farms is a dairy farm . . Casey and Jennifer brought delicious samples from their famous ice cream bar, Udder Delights, for the students and staff to sample. Their mission is

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ACI PM Student Jeff Vegso demonstrates (in the photos)  making TVP (Texturized Vegetable Protein) Raviolis in the Kitchen Portion of our Nutrition class. TVP is a vegetarian protein that the students made into mock “Italian sausage” for the ravioli filling. Making fresh pasta is one of the many exciting skills you will learn at Arizona Culinary.[gallery

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