For young culinarians, the crisp late-winter air can mean only one thing: the high school culinary and hospitality competition season is here! From ProStart and C-CAP to SkillsUSA, NAACP, FCCLA, and ...

Butter or Crisco? The never-ending debate. Which gives the most height? Which has the most flavor? In my Culinary Chemistry class, we experimented to find out. In this lab exercise, we tested the ...

It Was How To Get My Nephew To Eat It. Taste and smell research highlights from Menus of Change at the Culinary Institute of America, covering health, food, and sensory science..

Read more about Lettuce Meet at the Market. Taste the California Walnut Ranch Dressing served at CIA's Food Is Life, Food Is Health conference—a creamy, plant-based favorite with fresh herbs..

Nutrition and Healthy Aging. How food and nutrition can support healthy aging—highlights from the Food Is Life, Food Is Health conference at CIA at Copia..

Foodservice professionals generally agree on prioritizing healthful, local ingredients whenever possible—but what does that look like when serving sustainable seafood to K–12 students? At this month’s ...

It’s college graduation season! To celebrate, we present these seven things you’ll only see (or hear, or taste) at a CIA commencement ceremony. Sure, students throw their caps in the air at the end of ...

Lisa Vega learned to cook at her grandmother’s knee, but although she loved to cook, she found herself pursuing a degree in English literature at Loyola Marymount University. However, the call to cook ...

When Lilia Temple was a student at CIA and was thinking of merging her love of sculpture with her love of food, she asked one of the chefs if he knew of anyone she could talk to about food styling. He ...