Volume 36, No.16
December 17, 2015
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Papillote Saying ‘Farewell’ to 2015
CIA Within the year, The Culinary Institute of America gained two wonderful new properties. Both The Egg on the Hyde Park campus and Copia as an addition to the California campus, bring greater opportunity for the CIA to expand its educational mission and provide a food-based experience for the public. The Egg Cracking Ceremony took place on June 29th, 2015. Adding to the student commons a warm area for healthy meals and always some great people watching. Each semester, Bachelor students are able to display their learning through the Innovation Station, where the entire pop-up restaurant concept, menu, and business plan are created by the students themselves. Besides having food available around the clock, the Egg provides wine and student-brewed beers from the in-house brewery for the students and public to indulge in. As a center for student gathering, other universities may take note of The Egg, as a model for improving their own cafeterias. This November, the California campus gained Copia in downtown Napa. With this addition, the CIA will be able to provide an improved food and wine experience to the region and its visitors. Copia will nearly double the size of the California campus, with ample space for kitchen classrooms in conjunction with the brimming Greystone property. More information on exactly what will be held in the facility will come later, but will include a museum, the CIA’s Food Business School, and more programs for the public to partake in. The campus is looking to open in the Spring of 2016. Influential Chef 2015 Joshua Skenes, a Florida state native, who took his art to San Francisco where he opened Saisonmeaning “season” in French. Saison earned its third Michelin star in 2015, and four stars awarded from The San Francisco Chronicle, the restaurant continues to carry its momentum. Skenes focus’ on bringing food back to its basics while managing to keep each course cost fewer than ten dollars, although the menu at Saison is currently priced at $289 a person. His team emphasizes the freshest ingredients, “When you eat a turnip and you’re like: That’s the best turnip I’ve ever had in my life. Because then it creates new possibilities for the food you’re going to cook .You don’t have to add all this sh*t into it. You don’t need a bunch of seasoning. You don’t need a bunch of butter. Same old song”. Chef Skenes believes that for ingredients to reach their full flavor
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potential, they are to be prepared with components spired attacks on Beirut and Paris have shocked from their natural habitat from which they are har- the world. Syria is having an intensely violent civil vested- an imitation of their environment in edible war and the 4th largest city in Jordan has become the highest concentration of displaced citizens and refugees in the world. ISIS has threatened New York City and Washington D.C., and America has agreed to reoccupy Syria with ground troops. What many consider to be a step backwards but may be the only short term solution to the current swell of violence there. Refugees are spilling into Europe and America resulting in a rise of xenophobic and racist rhetoric in the international forum. Many people don’t know what to do with the influx of displaced citizens, and meanwhile thouphoto courtsey www.kevineats.com form. Skenes shows a recognition of quality, sus- sands of people keep dying in the war torn parts of tainability, and that a restaurant is more than just Syria and Jordan every year. a business. Even opening an eight seat popup suThe Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues and shi restaurant within Saison in collaboration with there seems to be no resolution in sight. The conChef Jiro Lin. troversial Iran nuclear deal has left many quesInternational Affairs tioning the foreign affairs policy of the Obama ad2015 has not been a good year for the unrest and ministration as it seems to have given Iran certain instability of the Middle East. ISIS has risen to the freedoms in trade with neighboring countries of level of international threat, more and more people weapons and war supplies, in exchange for barring who are unsatisfied with their living conditions their nuclear capabilities for more than a decade. This compromise leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many, but may have been the only diplomatic solution to a potentially catastrophic situation. One can only hope that 2016 and the upcoming election can create positive momentum towards effective change and peace in the Middle East. Tipping the Scale This year is coming to a close and with it we see the act of tipping slowly starting to vacate as well. This year marked a time in which resphoto courtesy www.ngm.nationalgeographic.com taurants started a movement and the constant threat of war are pledging them- to ban tipping with new “hospitality included” selves to their ranks. Poisonous American rhetoric policies. This movement among certain restauabout Muslims is used as a recruitment tool (here’s rants increases the standard pay of a server, while looking at you Donald Trump and Ted Cruz). ISIS subsequently terminating the ability to accept tips claims that there are several members living in the from customers. The idea behind this was so the United States as we speak, knowing this demands front of the house would get equal, or in some a higher amount of attention be payed to the na- cases lower pay, than the chefs and cooks that are tional rhetoric towards the muslim community. solely responsible for the food the customer enTurkish anti-aircraft guns shot down a Russian joys. This comes as a double edged sword howplane in what is considered an act of war. ISIS in- ever, while at the same time it makes pay equal, it Continued on Pg. 6
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