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Connecticut Culinary Institute - Farmington, PA

• Advanced Culinary Arts - Diploma
• Professional Pastry and Baking - Diploma

Become a successful chef or baker with a degree from the highly respected Connecticut Culinary Institute. Programs are offered in Advanced Culinary Arts or Professional Pastry and Baking. Students at the institute are provided with hands-on education in the fine arts of sautéing, grilling, baking, and creating pastries as well as instructed in garnishing, menu planning, business operations, safety, and kitchen etiquette.

The institute also offers students paid externships with the region's best restaurants. Flexible schedules enable students to attend classes during the day or evening. Extensive career placement services are also offered.

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Todd English- Owner/Chef

In Spring of 1991, English caught the culinary world’s eye when the James Beard Foundation named him their National Rising Star Chef. English followed through on that promise, as the James Beard Foundation subsequently named him Best Chef in the Northeast in 1994. In 2001, English was awarded Bon Appetit’s Restaurateur of the Year award and was also named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People.

Todd is currently the chef and owner of Olives in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Olives opened in April of 1989 as a 50-seat storefront restaurant. It has drawn national and international applause for English’s interpretive rustic Mediterranean cuisine. Olives now occupies a larger space down the street from its original location in Charlestown, Massachusetts. In recent years, English has established Olives as one of the most prestigious names in the nation by opening other locations around the world: Olives New York in the W Hotel in Union Square, Olives Las Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Olives DC in the heart of Washington, DC, Olives Aspen at the St. Regis Hotel in Aspen, Colorado, and Olives Tokyo which opened in the spring of 2003 in the Roppongi Hills development.

English also has four Figs restaurants in the greater Boston area and two locations at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Figs serves traditional and eclectic pizzas and handmade pastas. Among English’s other restaurants are Tuscany at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, which serves Italian inspired foods and pays homage to his Italian roots; Bonfire, a steakhouse in Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel that is a celebration of ranch cooking around the world from the U.S. to Australia; and KingFish Hall, Todd’s first seafood concept, in Boston’s Historic Faneuil Hall. Todd’s second seafood concept, Fish Club, at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront opened in the spring of 2003. English’s two newest ventures both opened in early 2004: the Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 welcomes the Todd English Restaurant, and Orlando hosts Blue Zoo at the Walt Disney World Resort’s Dolphin Hotel.

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