The main cooking classes are in the monastery, the big building in the center of the school. The chapel center now serves as a dining hall, complete with the original stained glass. I find this former worship area an appropriate place for eating at a culinary institute.
J. King, a graduate of CIA took us around. He showed us the classrooms, professional kitchens throughout the monastery. And explained each room. We saw the asian room and the BIGGEST Woks I've ever seen. JKing told us about one professor who could de-junk a line of shrimp in second (whosh whosh- with two swipes of the knife) and the shrimp are sans-gunk.
There were pictures of the finished daily coursework and I was very impressed with the presentation. They really are being educated for 5 star restaurants. We walked past more and more rooms and James told us that each class cooks for all the other students, so you never eat your own food.
(p.s. I also noticed that there was hand sanitizer dispensers on the walls all over the school)
We walked around the campus enjoying the warm fall day. The combination of the trees' colors; the view of the Hudson River and the incredible buildings made me reminiscent of boarding school and gave me a sense of future possibilities.
The restaurants were closed but there are three 5 star restaurants that are student run. JKing's favorite is the American Bounty restaurant and there is an Italian one (complete with a back garden and a wine tasting room were you learn wine parings, a french one and an apple pie cafe where JKing claims the best Apple Cider.
Everyone who is there is taken over by food. Having a beer outside by the clay tennis court behind the student center, I read an article about food porn (link is to a similar article written by the same author) in the student newspaper, La Papillote. It compared people watching the foodnetwork and watching people do complicated dishes that takes a great amount of training (never to be tried in the viewers own kitchen) and was quite interesting.
I walked through the casual student grill (the menu was delicious featuring gourmet soups served in paper cups and turkey sand witches with cranberry mayonnaise. It was interesting to listen to the students talking. All about food. Talking about how some friend found goat cheese for his soup and laughing haughtily at some culinary fact that was above my head.
Before we left we sat over a high ledge on the Hudson watching the sun set (If I can, I will get a few of the pictures from Lisel and post one) It was beautiful, the train tracks down a steep rock ledge and the hues of the trees highlighted by the setting sun and a tugboat going by.
At a bar waiting for the train a man asked me if we'd come up to see the pedestrian bridge that had recently opened. I told him no, but while driving, that we had discussed the huge number of people walking on the bridge. Turns out it is the worlds longest pedestrian bridge and a new destination for walkers. It just opened earlier this month by this mans group, Walkway over the Hudson.
J. King, a graduate of CIA took us around. He showed us the classrooms, professional kitchens throughout the monastery. And explained each room. We saw the asian room and the BIGGEST Woks I've ever seen. JKing told us about one professor who could de-junk a line of shrimp in second (whosh whosh- with two swipes of the knife) and the shrimp are sans-gunk.
There were pictures of the finished daily coursework and I was very impressed with the presentation. They really are being educated for 5 star restaurants. We walked past more and more rooms and James told us that each class cooks for all the other students, so you never eat your own food.
(p.s. I also noticed that there was hand sanitizer dispensers on the walls all over the school)
We walked around the campus enjoying the warm fall day. The combination of the trees' colors; the view of the Hudson River and the incredible buildings made me reminiscent of boarding school and gave me a sense of future possibilities.
The restaurants were closed but there are three 5 star restaurants that are student run. JKing's favorite is the American Bounty restaurant and there is an Italian one (complete with a back garden and a wine tasting room were you learn wine parings, a french one and an apple pie cafe where JKing claims the best Apple Cider.
Everyone who is there is taken over by food. Having a beer outside by the clay tennis court behind the student center, I read an article about food porn (link is to a similar article written by the same author) in the student newspaper, La Papillote. It compared people watching the foodnetwork and watching people do complicated dishes that takes a great amount of training (never to be tried in the viewers own kitchen) and was quite interesting.
I walked through the casual student grill (the menu was delicious featuring gourmet soups served in paper cups and turkey sand witches with cranberry mayonnaise. It was interesting to listen to the students talking. All about food. Talking about how some friend found goat cheese for his soup and laughing haughtily at some culinary fact that was above my head.
Before we left we sat over a high ledge on the Hudson watching the sun set (If I can, I will get a few of the pictures from Lisel and post one) It was beautiful, the train tracks down a steep rock ledge and the hues of the trees highlighted by the setting sun and a tugboat going by.
At a bar waiting for the train a man asked me if we'd come up to see the pedestrian bridge that had recently opened. I told him no, but while driving, that we had discussed the huge number of people walking on the bridge. Turns out it is the worlds longest pedestrian bridge and a new destination for walkers. It just opened earlier this month by this mans group, Walkway over the Hudson.
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