dICEd Blog Listing

The Peñas and the Jones have a lot in common: three of the four have served in the military, both couples have two children, both husbands are studying Culinary Arts, and both wives are studying...

Chefs, food lovers and home cooks alike have seen America’s shift towards more plant-based, health-conscious dining. Fast Company, Foodable Labs and Nation’s Restaurant News have all reported on the...

Laughing darkly at myself, I looked up at the hopeful faces of my peers, some of whom are more than 10 years younger than I was when I decided to apply to the Institute of Culinary Education. As the...

What would it look like for 16 nervous pastry students to run around one kitchen frantically making our assigned items? What if luck wasn’t on my side on test day and the end result was less than...

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...

Aaron always wanted to host his own culinary show. But he concealed this goal, while cooking alongside his parents as a child, and made the “safe decision” to attend University of Illinois where he’d...

Matthew worked in the banking industry for five years while dreaming of pursuing his real passion: cooking. When he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and hospitalized four times last year, he...

Sophia wasn’t working in the pastry industry when she entered an amateur cake decorating contest in 2015...and won. Though she wasn’t unhappy working as a web developer, she knew it wasn't going to...

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...

Like most culinary students, my love for food and cooking began at an early age. I have fond memories of plucking sugar snap peas from my father’s garden and preparing a family meal at the ripe age of...

The eight-armed mollusk, which can grow an arm if it loses one, is a symbol of regeneration, a theme that resonates with Greg. Less than a decade ago, he was working a desk job as a financial analyst....

After being in the Culinary Arts program at ICE for just over a month, one thing I’ve learned is that timing is everything. It took me 15 years to get to culinary school. It’s something I wanted to do...