Read more about CIA Announced as Exclusive Launch Partner for MattsonIQ™. Hyde Park, NY, February 26, 2026 – CIA has been named the exclusive launch partner for MattsonIQ, an AI platform driving ...

Read more about Meet the Next Generation Chef Leaders. Chatting with Culinary Institute of America students about how the next generation of chef leaders train, intern, and think about food and ...

Read more about CIA Teams Up With tRetail Labs To Accelerate Change in Travel Food and Beverage. Hyde Park, NY, February 19, ...

Read more about CIA Appoints Chef Spike Mendelsohn To Board of Trustees. Hyde Park, NY, February 5, 2026 – CIA has appointed Chef Spike Mendelsohn to its board of trustees. Mendelsohn, who is a 2005 ...

If your dream is to run a kitchen, then becoming a sous chef is an essential step. As a sous chef, you’re the second-in-command of a kitchen, not only overseeing the day-to-day kitchen operations, but ...

What is your favorite dish to create? My favorite dish is a one pot meal. I loved being part of two great opening teams for two great Roman-style trattorias within the Union Square Hospitality Group ...

Meet Jaidalyn Fan, an Applied Food Studies major with a Baking and Pastry Arts focus from San Jose, CA. She shares why she chose pastry, how studying at CIA has broadened her cultural perspective, and ...

Author Anna Fain is a Baking and Pastry Arts major. The biggest event of the semester—Casino Night—brought students flooding the Student Rec Center gym for a night to remember. For one night, SPICE ...

After graduating from CIA, Chef Benno moved to San Francisco to work for fellow CIA alumnus Michael Mina ’89 at Aqua. He then joined Chef Keller at the French Laundry before testing himself in the ...

“CIA prepared me with the basic skills and expectations I would need to enter the culinary world.” The list of chefs Jason Pfeifer has worked for reads like a “Who’s Who” of culinary giants—Michael ...