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My whole, big Italian family is from Staten Island, where I was born and raised. That’s all I know. We had cookie days during the holidays and I fell in love with baking more than cooking, which I...

Nickie Alston (Culinary, ‘14) founded ASun Star, Inc., which provides social services, including a culinary learning program, to families in New Jersey. Nickie also co-founded online lifestyle...

When did you decide you wanted to go to culinary school? I graduated college and started working in a probation job 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...

Founder of Brooklyn restaurant and organization Emma’s Torch, Kerry is being recognized for her “commitment to the culinary arts and its power to transform other individuals’ lives through...

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...