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If you’ve ever visited Spain, you probably noticed that ham is everywhere. You may have awed at ham legs hanging from shop ceilings like pork chandeliers and downed several glasses of albariño while...

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...

Equally versatile in the world of cooking, they can be sturdy enough to replace the meat in tacos, rich enough to replicate cream in a soup and healthy enough to keep your engine chugging through flu...

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...

Last week, Chef Lang welcomed our Los Angeles students into his kitchen and dining room and guided a tour through his beloved underground dry-aging room, then shared his deep knowledge on the subject....

Most Americans have a deeply personal relationship with Chinese food. Some of us have inherited ties to ancient regional Chinese culinary traditions. Others are devoted to wildly inauthentic...

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...

“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...

Adriano Piazza studies Culinary Arts at ICE's LA campus. I moved to the United States from Italy just a couple of years ago and I can say I have studied food my entire life, from growing up in a...