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After graduating with a degree in communications from Syracuse University in 2014, Tori tried her hand in the entertainment industry. “I never felt really passionate about it and never really found my...

The two became an unstoppable duo, opening their first restaurant together, City Restaurant, on La Brea Boulevard in 1981. They cooked on hibachi grills in a rear parking lot, and dishes like veal...

The Institute of Culinary Education's 2018-2019 career program graduates are in for two final formal guest lectures that are guaranteed to inspire. Industry icons Wolfgang Puck, chef-owner of more...

“My family was always into food,” Chef Marc says. “My mom cooked every single day. She would always try new recipes and had a lot of cookbooks. We always had new dishes introduced to us. In the...

Every meal was a well thought out and choreographed production. The aromatic spices were neatly organized in round metal containers, glass jars filled with red, yellow, green and black lentils and...

“The owner texted me that they caught these yesterday,” Chef Manuel González (Culinary, ‘11) tells me as a Long Island fishmonger bags three black sea bass. The vendor shows us clear eyes and red,...

Chef Timothy and Otium’s director of culinary operations Jonathan Granada, visited the Institute of Culinary Education to share advice on managing employees, career focus and business acumen. Here are...

On opening Urban Cowboy: I was in real estate, and I’d always wanted to develop my own building. You live in buildings in New York — a lot of them are very sterile and don’t have much soul to the...

In his first few years of medical school, Nate discovered the connection between disease prevention and diet and decided he wanted to help his future patients manage their health at home with healthy...

Through ICE alum Yoon Hee Kim’s (Culinary, ’05) translation, students at ICE’s LA campus learned about Jeong Kwan’s philosophies and daily life, wandering and tending to her garden at the Baegyansa...

Chef-Instructor Olivia Roszkowski is teaching ICE's first Health-Supportive Culinary Arts class. “When I was in college, I procrastinated with my studies by cooking,” Chef Olivia recalls what led her...

Though she’d never made a pie or cake, Yi applied an ancient Chinese wedding pattern that symbolizes good luck to her cranberry pie’s crust and blew the school’s faculty and students away with the...