BREAKING NEWS!!!
The Culinary Institute of America will set up an educational program on Catalan cuisine. Catalonia will be the first European region which will own this type of study in this world wide known New York Institution.
The agreement provides for a scholarship program for students and teachers at the CIA, which aims to promote exchanges between the U.S. and Catalonia, it will let Americans know about Catalan gastronomy and products.
The CIA, Prodeca and Alicia Foundation, all of them involved in this agreement will collaborate also in an ongoing series of educational programs that include Catalan cuisine tastings, demonstrations and classes on the CIA campus in NY and Napa Valley, California.
The first phase of the fellowship program will begin during the autumn of 2009. Some CIA teachers and students will stay in Catalonia for a different period of time. The first will stay for 7 to 10 days and students for 3 months.
Today the Culinary Institute of America delivers the prize Cook of the Year to Ferrán Adrià, Chairman of the advisory board of the Alicia Foundation (source: La Vanguardia)
Links of interest:
Culinary Institute of America
Prodeca
Gastronomic +34
Alicia Foundation
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