I have been to the CIA a number of times on business trips to Poughkeepsie (you can probably guess where I worked). Always a treat.
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Originally Posted by PennBF
We lived for many years just a couple of miles from the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, NY. There are 55 Master
Chef's in the World and 30 of them are at the Institute. It has about 2000 students and about 4-5 individual restaurants and it's own bakery where you can buy bake goods and books and Magazines on food, cooking etc. If you are going to spend foolish money on a or many meals you should direct your attention to the Culinary where you will truly have outstanding meals. Once a year the Culinary hosts what is known as the most outstanding meal in the world. It is for the Master Chefs only and some are assigned responsibilities for their part of the meal. If it for Trout they will be flown in that day from the best sources in the world,etc. We have dined there many times and the service and food is as you would expect it..Outstanding. You will be served by one of the students who is also being watched by a Professor
and marked on the service he/she is performing that day. We have friends who graduated from the Culinary and good friends of the Nurse's there. They said they were called on most of the time for cuts and burns. The main building was a Catholic Seminary. There are many more buildings now. If you go to Hyde Park (Better known for Pres Roosevelt's home) or Poughkeepsie, NY
and go into a Diner you may be served by a Student of the Culinary or the "Short Order Cook" is a student. When I hear of someone spending a huge amount for transportation and a meal I think why not go to the best and really have an experience. Some of the super rich come up the Hudson out of NY, dock their mega boat
at a small dock near the Culinary and have Limo's take them to the Culinary for a meal. Some of the restaurants are reasonable and then there are a couple that are more expensive.  |