Alex Espiritu works at the Valrhona École du Grand Chocolat in France. The eminent chocolate manufacturer works closely with experts to come up with innovative techniques for using chocolate.

Award-winning chef and partner of the critically acclaimed Fatty Crab, Fatty ‘Cue and Cabrito, Zac Pelaccio was on hand yesterday to give a demo at ICE.

I’ve noticed bakers are a lot like musicians. They touch bread much like a musician touches an instrument to create a perfectly puffed pastry or a perfectly placed chord. A guitarist can play softly or strum with intensity. Bakers, similarly, know when to be gentle, when to be rough and when to be gently rough as they learn to see and feel the differences in texture and the ways in which they need to manipulate their dough to reach the desired end result.

How do we define the creativity of chefs?

Last night, Master Butcher Rudi Weid hung a 720-pound half of a steer from the ceiling in ICE’s demo kitchen and artfully broke it down into primals, sub-primals and ultimately into roasts, steaks, ribs and other familiar cuts of meat.

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.

After Tito Beveridge’s inspiring lecture last week, many of you were left thirsty for more on the beverage industry.

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.”

Today marks Constitution Day, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the founding fathers on September 17, 1787. To celebrate, ICE’s resident culinary historian Cathy Kaufman gave a hands-on demonstration for students on the food and drink of the late eighteenth century.

ICE hosted the biannual Career Fair yesterday afternoon.