Interested in a career in the culinary arts? Then you've come to the right place. The new home of the French Culinary Institute, the International Culinary Center is a world-class culinary academy that offers professional training to chefs of all backgrounds and experience levels.
How does our culinary academy compare to other traditional culinary arts colleges? Try our Total ImmersionSM approach to culinary training, which teaches students in months what other culinary arts colleges take years to impart. Consult our impressive course curriculum, which includes professional culinary courses not only through the FCI, but through our innovative and exciting new Italian Studies program.
Add in our flexible culinary class schedule, our intimate class size, our talented faculty of legendary chef-instructors, and the fact that our newly-expanded culinary academy now boasts four floors of innovative kitchen and student facilities located in the heart of the culinary world (NYC)- and it's hard to ask why you'd choose to attend any other culinary arts college!
Please call 1-888-324-2433 to learn more about our academy of culinary arts, or request a free information kit online today.
And don't forget- our welcome center would also be happy to help you schedule a personal visit to our culinary arts academy in New York City. We can help with everything from arranging your meetings with faculty, staff, and students to hotel and restaurant reservations to exploring the vibrant culinary arts scene of NYC.
We also encourage you to learn more about our culinary academy by taking a peek inside all four levels of our gourmet cooking and baking school. Explore our expanded classroom kitchen facilities, learn about our award-winning restaurant L'Ecole, and learn about our impressive culinary theater where celebrated celebrity chefs and graduates come to speak every week.
Please also see below for additional information about our culinary arts academy, including in-depth descriptions of cooking courses available through the French Culinary Institute as well as through our new Italian Studies program.
AN ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL CHEF COLLEGES
Obtaining a career certificate from the International Culinary Center offers potential chefs a promising alternative to culinary degrees from a traditional culinary arts college. Our world-class facilities, esteemed chef-instructors, well-rounded culinary course curriculum, and innovative Total ImmersionSM methodology will give you comprehensive training and industry edge in just months, instead of years.
MORE ABOUT OUR CULINARY ARTS ACADEMY
Located in the heart of New York City, our culinary arts academy at the International Culinary Center is more than just the new home of the FCI: it's a true culinary center for chefs, students, restaurateurs- in short, everyone and anyone with an investment in today's culinary scene. We stand apart from the majority of other traditional chef colleges in that we're not just a culinary academy- we're a culinary destination.
Building upon the world-renowned curriculum of the French Culinary Institute, our new center for culinary arts has branched out- literally- to offer four floors of culinary innovation.
The first floor of our academy of culinary arts features our award-winning Zagat- and Michelin-rated restaurant, L'Ecole. Not only will you find some of the best cuisine in all of NYC at this restaurant, but L'Ecole is also where students enrolled in our Classic Culinary Arts cooking course also spend the last third of their training- gaining incomparable real-life, career experience. This unique opportunity for hands-on training in an exclusive restaurant environment is just one of the many benefits that distinguish our culinary academy from other traditional culinary arts colleges.
Also located on the first floor are the culinary kitchens for the French Culinary Institute, boasting elite equipment from Jade ranges to Vulcan Swiss kettles. And unlike other culinary arts colleges, at the International Culinary Center, your station is your own. Our culinary academy provides each student with their own complete set of world-class cooking equipment, ensuring that you're able to make the most of every second of precious class-time. There aren't many other culinary arts colleges that can compete with that!
Visit the second floor of our culinary arts academy, and you'll find the kitchens for our baking and pastry schools. Facilities for our baking school use the professional-grade tools that any world-class restaurant would find hard to beat, not to mention other culinary arts colleges-,as Hobart mixers. Winkler Wachtel deck ovens, and more. And through our proprietary Total ImmersionSM methods, our baking program teaches both professional chef and recreational students all the key elements of bread and pastry baking, from Fondant and Royal Icing to Artisanal Bread Baking.
Also located on the second floor of our culinary academy is the International Culinary Theater, where celebrated chefs, academy graduates, and faculty from this and other culinary arts colleges convene each week for lectures and discussion. Our excellent continuing education classes for restaurant management, wine studies, and food writing are held on this level as well.
The third floor of our academy of culinary arts is where our student services, chef quarters, library, and computer lab are located. Easily on par with any leading culinary arts college, our library is a culinary gold mine of thousands of books, DVDs, and CD-ROMs.
The fourth floor of our culinary academy is host to a variety of important cooking courses as well, including our new Italian Studies department. Designed and overseen by Master Chef Cesare Casella, the innovative culinary classes and educational techniques featured in our Italian Studies program go above and beyond what you'd find in other culinary arts colleges.
Also located on the fourth floor of our academy of culinary arts are additional pastry kitchens from our baking and pastry schools, as well as our admissions and welcome center.
CONTACT OUR CULINARY ACADEMY
See for yourself how our culinary academy is different from other traditional chef colleges- pay us a visit today! Our concierge would be happy to help you book a tour of our culinary arts academy. We can assist in all your arrangements: hotel reservations, meetings with faculty and students, culinary academy tours, restaurant reservations and more!
Or, call 1-888-324-2433 to speak to us about what our academy of culinary arts can offer you. You can also fill out our convenient online form to request a free brochure.
