6 . For the Love of Food

Make food your life in the CIA Associate in Culinary Arts degree program. You’ll not only build the core skills used by every chef; you’ll chart your own path toward a lifelong career doing what you love. Learn to prepare a wide variety of dishes and cuisines, manage people, and use state-of-the-art equipment—all in less than two years! Come and make our trademark hands-on learning approach and industry-proven experts work for you.

Highlights:

1st Session: Learn how to develop flavor, employ classic and contemporary culinary techniques, create menus, and prepare global cuisines.

2nd Session: Study the ways successful culinary professionals manage restaurants, high-end catering, food trucks, and other food-related businesses.

3rd Session: Gain real-world experience through a paid internship semester at one of CIA’s 2,000+ food industry partners.

4th Session: Discover how real public restaurants are operated—hands-on, in our award-winning, live-action restaurant classrooms that serve thousands of customers annually.

How to apply：

Get started by submitting your application on our official website. Choose from two online options: CIA ONLINE APP or COMMON APP.

Next, to complete your application file, we just need three additional items:

▲ Request official transcripts(成绩单).

▲ Submit an essay to indicate your goals in life.

▲ Ask for a recommendation letter written by your teachers.

That’s it! You’re on your way to enrolling at CIA. If you’ve already submitted your application, learn more about the essay and supporting materials. Get ready for applications at least 3 months in advance in case of any interviews and background checks. Applications for our program are due by December 1,2023.

8 . A company in California, called Zume, is testing machines that make pizza. The robot takes and shapes dough to create the base of the pizza. It then adds tomato sauce, cheese, meat or other toppings. Next, the robot places the uncooked pizza into a hot oven. A few minutes later, the pizza is ready. The pizza comes out the same each time. Zume says the robots work quickly and do not get sick. They do not get paid either.

Julia Collins is the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO). Her business can spend more money on better food products because it does not have to pay the robots. Zume is using robots to make pizza.

Charity Suzuki has bought the robot-made pizza. She likes its taste. “It’s delicious. It’s always hot and fresh when it comes. I mean it’s great that they’re making it, but I can’t tell the difference that it’s made by a robot versus a human.”

Other companies say they are developing robots so people can get higher quality food faster. But what about the jobs the robots are taking from humans?

Ken Goldberg is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley. He also directs the school’s automation laboratory. Goldberg says researchers have been working with robots for 50 years. He says that, while there has been progress, the jobs are not going to disappear right away. “I want to reassure(使放心) restaurant workers that the skills that they have are still going to be of value,” Goldberg says.

“We’re going to get rid of boring, repetitive, dangerous jobs and we’re going to free up people to do things that have higher value. There’s going to be amazing new ways of working that don’t exist yet but are going to be created,” Alex Garden, the chairman of Zume, says.

9 . What are the foods that you can only taste in memories? Your mother’s biscuits? The pies you made as a child? And what are the recipes that help you_________  your memories? 

This morning, for the first time in over a year, I made Dutch Babies, a kind of pancake. I’m a poor cook who’s always _________ to pull anything out of the oven that isn’t burnt. But _________ , I get lucky. 

Making Dutch Babies brings to my mind some of the _________  memories of my life. I’ve made Dutch Babies many times for sleepovers and _________ . They were always a hit, even if I _________ them. 

After my kids grew up, I didn’t cook much for years, except for holidays or other _________ occasions. When we had a family _________ , I’d make Dutch Babies for breakfast. 

I can’t recall the last time I made Dutch Babies, before today. I know it was _________  a year, before life was __________ for the pandemic, and we stopped having guests. 

So why did I make them this __________  for only my husband and me? It’s been a(n) __________ year for all of us, filled with things we couldn’t do. I was __________  to celebrate being alive. 

Good food can feed a hungry crowd. But if it’s made with love and __________ ,it can fill a __________  with the hope of better days to come. So, add your own memories.