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The Culinary Institute of America
2555 Main Street
St. Helena, CA 94574
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The Culinary Institute of America offers a memorable experience via our restaurants, retail stores, and public tours in California’s lush Napa Valley. During your visit, discover what the CIA is all about. See how everything we do supports our mission of providing the world's best culinary education.
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The Marketplace at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone
Flavor Bar Experience: Taste Like A Chef
While in the store, be sure to visit the Flavor Bar, where you can enjoy unique "Taste Like a Chef" sensory experiences that will give you insight into food ingredients and how a chef uses flavor to create perfectly seasoned dishes and confections.
Calibrate Your Palate - every hour on the hour at $10.00 per person. Approximately 15 minutes. Salty, sweet, bitter, sour: these flavors are the chef's palate, providing the primary colors that are used to create unlimited new combinations. Once you learn the basics, you'll have new confidence in creating a perfectly seasoned dish.
The Chocolate Experience - on the half hour at $10.00 per person. Approximately 15 minutes. You'll be guided through chocolate from start to finish: the origins of chocolate, components of chocolate, how chocolate is produced, and a comparison tasting of single-origin chocolates.
Coming Soon: Guided tastings of super-premium olive oils at the country's first Oleoteca Learn, sip and savor at the world's premier culinary college. The CIA Greystone Experience includes shopping for everything culinary, public cooking classes and demonstrations, wine classes, and of course, superb dining at the Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant.
Cooking classes
Be among the first non-professionals to take a food or wine class at CIA Greystone. Learn to create tasty dishes inspired by the Napa Valley way of life and other alluring locations such as the traditional tapas bars of Spain and the small village cafés along the Mediterranean coast.
Wine classes:
Come to the ideal place to learn about wine - the CIA at Greystone, located in the heart of the Napa Valley. With its state-of-the-art facilities and impressive roster of teaching talent, it is a mecca for wine lovers.
Sophisticated Palate Programs:
Sophisticated Palate and Epicurean Adventures are located in California’s Napa Valley. Awaken your senses! Indulge your passion for food, wine, and cooking. CIA Sophisticated Palate offers the ultimate culinary vacation.
In an intimate learning environment of just 12 participants, Chef John Ash and CIA faculty will introduce you to bold cuisines. You'll explore the subtleties of food and wine pairing, and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow food aficionados. And you'll do it all in a region that's home to a vibrant community of chefs and bursting with fresh, flavorful ingredients.
Food and Wine Pairing Program:
Aroma Seminar & Food and Wine Pairing for the non-professional
"A Journey into Sensory Awareness"
Participants will come away with some basic templates to operate from as they put food and wine together. You'll have a much better understanding of how to make positive matches happen in your own kitchens as well as outside dining experiences! |
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