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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....

Tell us about your journey to your current position at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. I first became interested in environmental and agricultural ethics while studying at Yale. My...

There’s been a lot of talk about food at the White House. Inquiring minds want to know: how secure is the food preparation for a sitting president? Security is pretty tight. Wherever we went, Secret...

Now he’s returned to hosting pop-ups, this time with a focus on using as many foraged ingredients as possible — from the New York region and sometimes even the city itself. Tom’s part of a growing...

After high school, Darien W. followed the path his family set for him, enrolling in Arizona State University to study public policy law. But fate clearly had other plans: after starting his own...