Johnson & Wales University - Centre of Culinary Arts Johnson & Wales University - Centre of Culinary Arts

International Culinary Center, USA

This institute started off as The French Culinary Institute in 1984, and is now the International Culinary Center. The center counts Jacques Pépin, André Soltner and Jacques Torres among its deans and its 15,000+ alumni include Wylie Dufresne, David Chang, Christina Tosi and Bobby Flay, who graduated in the very first class.

Programmes range from Culinary Arts, Pastry Arts and Cake Design to Italian Culinary, Spanish Studies and Intensive Sommelier.

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The curriculum is rooted in the fundamentals of French cooking, and allows students a range of hands-on training.

It has an extensive “chef demo” program–including luminaries like Dominique Ansel, Seamus Mullen, Francois Payard, John Besh and Massimo Bottura.

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