ICE Chef Instructor Judges Chocolate Exhibition
This weekend, ICE Chef Instructor Michelle Tampakis was invited by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation to be a judge at their 19th Annual Chocolate Fantasy in Albuquerque. The event...
View ArticleICE Alumni Roundup
Whether as chefs, cake decorators, specialty food purveyors or caterers, ICE alumni are finding success in a plethora of different avenues in the food world. Check out just some of the alumni finding...
View ArticleAlumni Spotlight: Maria Tampakis
While ICE alum often end up working in some of the world’s top restaurants or using their skills to travel the world, Maria Tampakis is near and dear to our heart. As the daughter of Chef Instructor...
View ArticleSculpted Cakes at ICE’s Center for Advanced Pastry Studies
As part of ICE’s Center for Advanced Pastry Studies, ICE alum Elisa Strauss returned to ICE this week to teach a class on sculpted cakes. Strauss is the designer at Confetti Cakes, famed for their...
View ArticleICE Chef Helps Build World’s Largest Gluten-Free Cake
ICE Chef Instructor Michelle Tampakis was in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to help build an amazing pastry confection — the world’s largest gluten-free cake! Chef Michelle was diagnosed with celiac...
View ArticleTop Ten Pastry Chefs in America at ICE
Last night, ICE hosted Dessert Professional’s 18th Annual Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America event. The annual awards honor ten amazing pastry chefs for their contribution to the industry. This year the...
View ArticleICE Chef Chairs Week-Long Food Festival
Many students in ICE’s Pastry & Baking Arts career-training program are amazed at the skill of ICE Chef Instructor Michelle Tampakis. Chef Michelle was named one of the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in...
View ArticleAnnouncing the ICE Student Awards Program
Since 1975, ICE has been training students for successful careers in the culinary world. In those 36 years, ICE has seen incredible talent pass through our kitchens and classrooms who then go on to...
View ArticleAdvanced Cake Decorating Techniques with Michelle Bommarito at ICE’s Center...
ICE’s Center for Advanced Pastry Studies, led by Director Michelle Tampakis, is an incredibly unique program that brings the world’s leading pastry chefs to teach multi-day workshop classes for...
View ArticleMeet Chef Michelle
On the path to becoming one of the nation’s authorities on Pastry & Baking Arts, Chef Michelle Tampakis has taken some fascinating and unexpected turns. Born in the Bronx, Tampakis grew up in the...
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