INFORMATION
SOJOURN, STAFF, LOCATION
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Superior Accommodations
All programs are inclusive of hotel, all meals & wines,
market visits & much more!
Locations
Culture, cuisine, art, nightlife & more!
Facilities
Work with Europe's latest culinary equipment in a real
world setting
All
of our programs and excursions are available for your
association at special group rates.
Culinary
Institutes,
corporations and agents,
click
here
to learn more
about special offers for our partners as well as the
Institutes' custom courses.
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Mediterranean cuisine, buffet, vegetarian, pasta, baking,
hearth breads, desserts and more from the Institute's and
Italy's top culinary professionals.
SERVICES
EDUCATION & CONSULTING
Restaurant, Hotel, Industry
Food, Pastry , Bakery, Gelato, Trade Shows
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Planning a Special Event that requires Master Chefs from Italy?
Our masters travel to every continent presenting haute Italian
dinners, events, demos and expert seminars on Italian and International
Cuisine for restaurants, resorts, hotels, cruise ships, gourmet
shops and trade fairs. E mail
us your plans to find out costs and sample itineraries.
Do you require professional training for your staff or menu development
for authentic Italian and Mediterranean Cuisine?
Whether you already have a successful restaurant, need to update
or are considering a rollout, ICI can assist in full immersion
staff training or to perfect your menu or concept.
E mail us here.
Looking
for an Apprenticeship or Stagiere in Italy?
Learn authentic Italian cuisine from the source. Work alongside
a master following a course. E-mail your resume here
Are
you a restaurateur looking
for a Professional Chef from Italy?
The Italian Institute for Advanced Culinary & Pastry
Arts receives scores of inquiries from both Italian chefs and
restaurant owners around the world who are seeking either permanent
or seasonal positions or consulting services. E mail us here
to inquire.
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Professional Italian Cuisine
Full Immersion Culinary,
Baking, Pastry and Gelato programs for Professional Chefs, Patissier,
Culinary Instructors, Advanced Students and Serious Home Gourmets
presented by Europe's most Renown Master Chefs.
All
programs are conducted in Italy and always include accommodations,
all meals, course materials, gastronomic travel and much more!
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Click the links to the left, or below, to check availability, full
course descriptions, dates, accommodations and prices for programs at
the Italian Institute for Advanced Culinary Arts
or click here
to enroll in an all-inclusive course
3 MONTHS
- ALL INCLUSIVE
Master
of Italian Cuisine
ICI's longest running all-inclusive program presents the most thorough
spectrum of Italian Haute Cuisine in Italy. For three months participants
work alongside Europe's top master chefs, patissier and sommelier.
The program covers every aspect of gastronomy including traditional
and innovative cuisine, pastry, baking, gelato, curing, drying and
conserving, pairing food and wines and much more. Click
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2 WEEKS
- ALL INCLUSIVE
The Evolution
of Italian Cuisine
The most advanced full immersion culinary course available in Italy
where particular attention is given to nutrition, gustatory perception,
recipe development and spectacular plating presentations. Cultural
exploration and travel in southern Italy & Sicily and fine dining
highlight the experience. Click here for details,
price and itinerary. |
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2
WEEKS - ALL INCLUSIVE
Tradition
& Evolution
Presented in North Italy, this unique program features one week of
full immersion training for cuisine, baking and patissier followed
by an entire week of culinary travel in nine cities and three regions
in Italy's gastronomic heartland. Click
here
for details, price and itinerary. |
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1
WEEK - ALL INCLUSIVE
Italian Culinary
Exploration
Italian Culinary Exploration encompasses the first week of the Evolution
of Italian Cuisine. Designed for professionals, the course is fast
paced and features cultural exploration, hands on full immersion days
and fine dining by night. Includes cultural travel. Click here
for details, price and itinerary. |
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WEEK - ALL INCLUSIVE
Italian
Wines & Haute Cuisine
Italian
Wines & Haute Cuisine is designed for both professionals and nonprofessional
gourmets alike. Anyone interested in not only learning about, but
LIVING, the haute cuisine and wines that have made Italy famous must
attend this program. Ideally set in the Veneto region, cultural travel
includes wine tastings in the heart of Venice! Click here
for details, itinerary and all inclusive price. |
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Advanced
Mediterranean Cuisine
Presented in the South Italy location, this program includes one week
of full immersion concentrating Regional Italian and Mediterranean
Cuisine. Highlights of Advanced Mediterranean Cuisine take pace every
evening where participants dine at unique restaurants that culminates
with a trip to Sicily, completely inclusive in one price. Click
here
for details, price and itinerary. |
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1
WEEK - ALL INCLUSIVE
The
Foundation of Italian Haute Cuisine
A dish is only as good as the raw materials used to devise it. This
unique program gives participants a profound understanding of hundreds
of Italy's best, and least, known cheeses, cured meats, extra virgin
olive oils, vinegars, conserves, herbs, spices, flours, grains, precious
truffles and many more elements necessary for masters to master the
art of Italian Regional Haute Cuisine Click
here
for details, price and itinerary. |
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Pastry, Desserts
& Specialty Breads
This course is
specially instructed by Fabio Bertoni and Alessandro Urilli, patissier
for the Italian National Pastry Team. The masters concentrate on Euro
technique for restaurants, catering and display cases... Includes
cultural travel. Click here for details,
price and itinerary.
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WEEK - ALL INCLUSIVE
Artisan
Gelato: Technique & Production
This program is designed for both experienced gelato makers and aspiring
shop owners and covers every aspect of real artisan gelato production
including personal recipe development, blueprinting for a single gelato
shop or multiunit operation, equipment specifications, and a profound
examination of the chemistry and physics needed to render a perfect
product, pricing, etc. Click
here
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The
Italian Institute for Advanced Culinary and Pastry Arts (ICI)
was founded to constantly update cooking techniques and menu
development for chefs, pastry chefs and bakers in Italy's
increasingly competitive environment Today, the Institute
is Italy's top culinary academy and considered among the most
important in Europe.
Our Master Courses are designed specifically for professionals
and concentrate on highly developed techniques that are continually
being developed through the Institute's participation in international
culinary competitions. Our full immersion programs cover a
variety of subjects including cuisine, pastry, gelato and
decoration as well as fine dining experiences at several of
Italy's top restaurants. Master Chef John Nocita leads a faculty
of more than 20 of Europe's most renowned Culinary and Pastry
Masters.
Culinary professionals benefit by being instructed
by a faculty
of the same chefs who have allowed The Italian Institute for
Advanced Culinary Arts to become the center of culinary information
in Italy through its' vast resources including:
Italy's center for Culinary Events
*Training Center for the National Pastry
Team and Italian Culinary Teams
*Meeting Center for Relais Dessert International
*Italian Headquarters for the Richmond Club
*Headquarters for the
Italian Academy of Master Patissier and the Academy of Artisan
Gelato Makers
*Tasting Center for the Italian Association of Sommeliers.
*Calabria Base for La Chaine des Rotisseurs
The Professional
Cookbook Series
Internationally endorsed for advanced techniques and stunning
photography, the collection is considered to be among the
best culinary texts for professionals. Used by the world's
top corporations and culinary Institutes for advanced training.
Non professionals will find our oversized full color texts
perfect for the coffee table or for entertaining.
R & D
Italy's leading food companies work closely with the Institute
for new product research, development and promotion.
Consulting
Whether it's for menu development for a single or multi-untit
restaurant, hotel or cruiseline, a new rollout for gelato
production, bakery or pastry facility, ICI understands client
trends, the ever changing demands within the industry and
the necessity of efficient and innovative back of the house
operations.
Flexibility
Equipped with progressive facilities, the Institute is completely
financially independent. Custom programs can be tailored to
meet specific necessities.
Locations
locations locations!
The Institute is ideally
located in 2 locations.
 Parma,
the Northern city of Art in the Emilia Romagna region
of Italy known internationally for its cheeses, wines
and fine dining. For your traveling pleasure
during free time, we are just minutes from Bologna, Modena
and Ferrara and close to the centers of Milan, Venice
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 Calabria,
Italy's Southernmost region, is a land immersed in the
clearest blue waters in Italy and located in the heart
of the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily. Rich in history,
Calabria is bristling with countless medieval fishing
towns, Norman castles and Ancient Greek and Roman ruins.
Most importantly, it produces many of the world's best
olive oils and has spent the past 5000 years perfecting
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Superior
Accommodations on the Seaside
All of our programs always include superior accommodations
in a fine hotel, all meals with wines, market visits and special
dinners in the regions' finest restaurants. Our southern Italy
location features the Hotel Baia dell'Est on the Ionian coastline.
Click here
for more!
Special incentives
are available to colleges, associations and agents. Click
here
for details.
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Andrea Voltolina
Ice
Carving Classic
6th
Annual Celebration of the Mediterranean Cuisine of Great Greece
ICI
Pictorial