Last night, ICE participated in Careers through Culinary Arts Program’s (C-CAP) annual benefit at Pier Sixty on the Chelsea Piers.

While I enjoy a glass of wine as much as the next gal, my forays into wine pairing have been a struggle to say the least.

When ICE President Rick Smilow and Anne E. McBride wrote "Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food," they discovered a plethora of food jobs they had never heard of before. Since the book's release, they have been discovering even more interesting career paths in the food world. DICED shares some of them with you in a reoccurring feature, “Unique Culinary Careers.”

Last Friday, ICE Chef Instructors Melanie Underwood and Marge Perry hosted a special fundraiser for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a charity committed to raising funds to support research for new and improved therapies for pediatric cancer.

Through our Culinary Management program, ICE offers a one-of-a-kind year-round series of lectures called Meet the Culinary Entrepreneurs, during which a wide range of successful culinary business leaders and luminaries share their expertise with students and guests.

Whatever your relationship with carbohydrates may be, bread is widely regarded as a staple food for many civilizations.

This is the part of the program where we are designers.

Last week, DICED told you about the new Chef Instructors in our Culinary Arts classrooms. But ICE also recently hired a team of new Chef Instructors for our Pastry & Baking Arts program. With their wide and varied backgrounds, they are sure to bring a plethora of skills and techniques to their ICE students. Vicki

Yesterday, ICE students were treated to a talk and tasting with Angela Miller of Consider Bardwell Farm. Miller wrote Hay Fever: How Chasing a Dream on a Vermont Farm Changed My Life about her journey from literary agent to farmstead cheese maker.

I never thought I’d hear one of the leading sommeliers in this city sing the praises of boxed wine, but that’s exactly what happened when I heard Bernard Sun, the James Beard Award–winning sommelier of the Jean-Georges restaurant group, speak at ICE.