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Training sessions are intense during the Culinary Institute's Boot Camp courses.
Main St., St. Helena, California). Greystone
also conducts 4- and 5-day Career Develop-
ment courses that are a kinder, gentler
version of the boot camps, including wine
education. In San Antonio, Texas, the CIA
opened a new campus for training Latino
food professionals (312 Pearl Pkwy., Bldg.
#3;
&
210/222-1113
). Two and three-day
courses focus on Mexican food and tapas.
All told, it gives you a lot of options if you
want to get serious about your cooking.
Culinary Institute of America, 1946
Campus Dr. (Rte. 9), Hyde Park (
&
800/888-
7250
or 845/471-6608; www.ciachef.
edu).
(
John F. Kennedy International; New-
ark Liberty International; LaGuardia (approx.
2 hr.). Albany Airport (approx. 2 hr.).
L
$$$
Inn at the Falls,
50 Red Oaks
Mill Rd., Poughkeepsie (
&
800/344-1466
or 845/462-5770; www.innatthefalls.com).
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The Inn at Essex
Getting Inn with the Chefs
Essex Junction, Vermont
The New England Culinary Institute doesn't
know what an ivory tower is. Since the
school was founded in 1980, the corner-
stone of its degree program has been to
provide a load of real-world restaurants
where its students can work on the front
lines. One of their finest “labs” is the Inn at
Essex. At this colonial-style white-clapboard
