The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), which opened as the New Haven Restaurant Institute in New Haven, Connecticut in 1946 to train returning World War II veterans in the culinary arts, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this week. The school changed its name to the Culinary Institute of America in 1951 and relocated to Hyde Park, New York in 1972. The first and only school of its kind in the United States, it has become the world’s premier culinary college. The school offers education programs that emphasize hands-on learning in small class settings, including subjects...
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