Flagship CIA Program Offers Innovative Culinary
Learning Vacations for Amateur and Veteran Home Chefs
A new series of Culinary Boot Camp classes has just been launched by The
Culinary Institute of America, the world's premier culinary college.
This marks the first time that CIA Boot Camp, the
flagship program of the continuing education curricula launched in 1999, will be
held at all three of the college's campuses: Hyde Park, in New York State's
beautiful Hudson Valley; the Greystone campus in California's legendary Napa
Valley; and in the vibrant and historic city of San Antonio, TX.
In the decade since it was launched, Culinary Boot Camp has drawn more than 4,000 aspiring chefs, amateur gourmets, and home cooks from all over the world. Boot Camps have been given as birthday gifts and scheduled as learning vacations for entire families. The program has attracted a cross-section of people: captains of industry, doctors and lawyers, retirees, artists, career-changers, and working mothers. Classes run either two, three, four, or five days to accommodate people of varying work schedules.
"The interest in culinary travel is booming," said
Laura Pickover, director of food enthusiast programs at the CIA. "Gourmets and
foodies everywhere are flocking to the CIA for an experience that will forever
change the way they prepare and eat food. But now they have three locations to
choose from for this unique culinary excursion. They can enjoy the same
high-quality kitchen-classroom event at a CIA campus much closer than
before.
"Furthermore, enrolling in Boot Camp makes even more sense during this economic downturn. Our classes teach how to purchase goods more wisely and efficiently, how to cook more often at home, and how to save time and money while doing it."
Participants can choose from Basic and Advanced
Training Boot Camps. All Boot Camp programs provide extensive hands-on cooking
with the CIA's celebrated chef-instructors, informative demonstrations, detailed
lectures on a range of culinary topics, wine-tasting classes, and the
opportunity to network with food enthusiasts from all over the world. Class
subjects range from BBQ to Bistro, and from Italian to Mediterranean to Asian.
Each campus offers a distinct roster of classes unique to its region.
New programs added to the Culinary Boot Camp schedule include:
- Specialty and Hearth Breads Boot Camp
- Career Discovery Boot Camps
- Wine Explorations at Greystone
- Tastes of the Napa Valley at Greystone
- Exploring the Food of Regional Mexico at San Antonio
To see the complete class calendar and to choose from new or classic CIA Boot Camp offerings, please visit www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts or call 1-800-888-7850.
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