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One of my favorite things about summertime in New York City is the Union Square Greenmarket. When I worked at abc kitchen, we got all of our summer berries from Berried Treasures Farm, which has a...

Who wouldn't love it? The class breaks into teams to make more than 30 types of cookies, from espresso cardamom sables to white chocolate cherry biscotti, then treats our staff to the sweets. It's...

When Angelica graduated high school, she wanted to pursue the world of beauty. She worked hard to get her cosmetology license but had trouble building up her clientele once she had it. Next, she went...

The youngest of three children, Chef Herve fondly remembers summers during his youth working for his uncles in the hospitality business, either at one’s auberge (inn) or the other’s patisserie, where...

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...

Chef Sim shares the No. 1 tool for making bread, how to know the dough is ready and his guidelines for incorporating flour throughout the process. Plus, learn four ways to tell you did everything...

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...

Paloma and Michael graduating from ICE After graduation, the couple planned to open their first business outside of New York’s expensive and competitive industry. On a visit to Michael’s hometown,...

I considered many different formats for the cheeky sayings, like lollipops, cookies and cakes, but in the end decided to elevate the conversation a bit with hand-painted macarons. I began by making my...

“I was getting a liberal arts college education in New York, and I was passing out from boredom when someone was talking about their feelings in a writing class,” Zoe says. “I realized I am not good...

Indigenous to Mexico, as well as Central and South America, chocolate is the product of the cocoa or cacao bean, which grows on pod-like fruit from the cocoa tree. Aztecs were the earliest...

At the annual ICE Cuisine Course in France , which I have been running for almost 20 years, we have built croquembouches at a pastry shop, La Duchesse Anne, in Saumur. All ICE culinary and pastry...