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..

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..

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aurelio Lopez is a lecturing instructor of Hospitality and Service Management within The Bocuse Restaurant at CIA in Hyde Park, NY, bringing more than 35 years of leadership experience in hospitality ...

Hyde Park, NY, February 19, 2026 – The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and tRetail Labs have formed a strategic partnership that brings together CIA’s leadership in food, health, sustainability, ...

“I don’t think there is any other culinary school that teaches as much as CIA—from fundamental cooking techniques to how to run a business.” As a young boy growing up in South Korea, Master Sommelier ...

“CIA was and still is the Ivy League of culinary schools, and I always wanted to be taught by the crème de la crème. It opened doors for me in so many ways.” Culinary arts, nutrition, and food science ...

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 ...

From chef to entrepreneur to food scientist, there are more careers in food than you might imagine—and many of them begin at CIA. With our food-focused degree programs, you’ll build real skills, ...