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When did you decide you wanted to go to culinary school? I graduated college and started working in probation in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and I wasn’t there very long. I had worked in restaurants...

Many people do not know that I am a licensed and ordained Christian pastor and my first call to service is actually in my commitment to God and humanity. I am what is considered a bi-vocational...

"I was surrounded by people who cooked at home multiple times a week with family and I realized I didn’t really have that," Chef Mashama says. “I started reading cookbooks and getting really...

When Olivia was a toddler allergic to eggs and milk, her mom — unaware of any nut allergy — wiped a knife clean between cutting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Olivia’s cream cheese and jelly...

Chef Mette identifies her early interest in all things culinary as a direct result of time growing up surrounded by food, farmland and family. For her, food was not only a passion that flourished...

ICE Los Angeles Campus President Lachlan Sands and VP of Education Richard Simpson congratulate Kerry Brodie on her ACCSC Outstanding Graduate Award. Founder of Brooklyn restaurant and organization...

Let's start with where you’re from and how your interest in food developed. I am originally from Bristol in England. From an early age my family traveled to France many times throughout the year as we...

Dancing choreography is a series of steps, set to music, filled with passion and I have come to find that cooking isn’t much different from dance. The steps are your recipe and the music is the honing...

How did you become interested in hospitality? I’ve always had a calling; I’m good with helping people and creating a good experience, and I’m interested in meeting different kinds of people and being...

“Cooking has been my passion since I was 14,” Jose says. “I enjoy the melody of the ingredients working with each other.” Like so many culinary students, he traces his interest in cooking back to...

Chef-Instructor Arnold Myint teaches a Culinary Arts class at ICE's LA campus. If there’s one motto Chef-Instructor Arnold Myint can live by, it’s "if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again". Case...

Julia Child taught at ICE when it was called Peter Kump's School of Culinary Arts. In honor of Julia's culinary legacy, here are a few Pasadena restaurants where we would celebrate her birthday....