ICC in the News: Highlights from March 2019

ESQUIRE

Best Filipino Restaurants in Metro Manila

Finding the best Filipino restaurant in Metro Manila is a difficult task, so Esquire put together a list of their favorite restaurants, including our graduate, Justin Sarabia’s The Rural Kitchen. This tiny 30-seater restaurant in Makati features decades-old recipes and the province’s stellar natural produce. Read more about his restaurant, The Rural Kitchen, here.

Executive Chef Michael Williams, ICC Professional Pastry Arts graduate, is a talented chef whose expertise shines through in his desserts. All desserts, including ice cream and sorbet, are made fresh on-site in a dedicated pastry kitchen. Read more about his restaurant Winston in Mount Kisco, NY.

Bird Rock Coffee in Carlsbad, CA was founded by ICC graduates Justin Gaspar and Sean Le. Here, they serve breakfast burritos, croissants, salads and more. Read more about their San Diego coffee shop in Eater here.

Gigi Pascual, who studied Professional Pastry Arts at ICC, launched Dough & Arrow last year, a cookie and coffee shop in Costa Mesa, CA. Check out her shop & learn more about her desserts here.

PLATE ONLINE

What It’s Like to Be a Commis at the Bocuse d’Or

Our Professional Culinary Arts graduate Mimi Chen served as the Commis for Team USA in the Bocuse d’Or this past January. Read about her experience and what it was like to train for a year for the most famous culinary competition in the world.

FORTUNE

Review: Meroma Is the Best Restaurant in Mexico City You Haven’t Heard of Yet

Chef’s Cusic and Bernal met while attending ICC and bounced around cooking in Manhattan (Del Posto, Café Boulud), London (L’Atelier Joel Robuchon), Rome, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. After they got married in 2013 and decided to open a place of their own in Mexico City. Now, it’s one of the best new restaurants in the city. Read about it here.

New owner of PJ Murphy’s Bakery in Minnesota, Chef Francois Kiemde, sat down with Twin Cities to tell his story of becoming a baker. Read about the ICC graduate here.

ICC alumna Melissa Weller is a master baker whose work has received critical acclaim. In 2013, she created a sensation by selling her hand-rolled bagels at the outdoor Smorgasburg market in Brooklyn, which led to her partnership with the Major Food Group to create and open the bagel-centric restaurant Sadelle’s. Get her famous pumpernickel bagel recipe in Bake Mag here.

Vegan chef & ICC alumnus Matthew Kenney is set to open two restaurants in Baltimore. Kenney has been named one of “America’s Best New Chefs” by Food & Wine Magazine, has received two rising star chef nominations from the James Beard Foundation, and authored 13 books. Learn more about his newest restaurants here.

TODAY

After Overcoming Opioid Addiction, Chef Finds Solace Back in the Kitchen

Chef Ashish Alfred of Duck Duck Goose Baltimore, George’s Chophouse & Duck Duck Goose Bethesda, shared his inspirational story on the Today Show & TODAY Food. A 2011 graduate of our Professional Culinary Arts program, his restaurants feature the French techniques learned during his time as at student at FCI, now ICC! Learn how to create his Steak Au Poivre, a classic French dish, here.

VARIETY

Chef Jacques Pépin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Daytime Emmys

Congratulations to our Dean Jacques Pépin on his Daytime Emmys lifetime achievement award! He is the first culinary professional to be recognized for this award, and it is well deserved—since the 1980s, he has inspired millions on television and beyond to cook at home or become chefs, including our very own students at ICC. Read more about this achievement here.

Dave Arnold, ICC’s Associate Dean of Culinary Technology, is visiting Houston to host a cocktail takeover at UB Preserv as part of the inaugural Southern Smoke Spring event series, raising funds for the Southern Smoke Foundation. The co-owner of Existing Conditions in New York City,  Arnold also invents kitchen devices, hosts the podcast Cooking Issues, and curates the Museum of Food and Drink, too. Read more about his upcoming event here.

Jacques Torres, ICC Dean of Pastry, created a masterful chocolate showpiece with ICC alumna & host of Eater’s Sugar Coated series, Rebecca D’Angelis. Watch how he creates magical chocolate showpieces from start to finish! Want to learn more from Mr. Chocolate himself? Join our demonstration with him on April 17th to learn the art behind chocolate showpieces from the master, in person.

This month, we celebrated the Official Good France Day on March 21st in partnership with the French Consulate of NY’s Good France Festival. In this segment from TV 5 Monde, watch Chef Serge Devesa teach his signature bouillabaisse dish in the kitchens of ICC.

This blog post was originally published by the International Culinary Center (ICC), founded as The French Culinary Institute (FCI). In 2020, ICE and ICC came together on one strong and dynamic national platform at ICE's campuses in New York City and Los Angeles. Explore your culinary education where the legacy lives on.