Whether you’re a first time baker or a professional, you’ll find this technique comprehensive and easy to follow.

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

Watch Stephen Durfee, baking and pastry instructor at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone prepare Molten Coffee Truffle Cake using delicious Starbucks coffee.

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

Starbucks educator Major Cohen pays a lot of attention to the harmonies between various coffee styles and complementary desserts. Let’s hear what he has to say.

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

The best way to become a more enlightened coffee consumer is to pay close attention to what’s in the cup. Putting words to what you are smelling and tasting will help you become more discriminating.

Watch Major Cohen of Starbucks Coffee demonstrate the methods of the professional coffee cupper.

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

Watch Major Cohen of Starbucks demonstrate the proper technique for pulling the perfect shot of Espresso.

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

“Coffee: Brewing, Tasting, and Cooking” explores coffee’s compatability with a wide range of contemporary flavors from Latin, Mediterranean, and Asian cuisines. Geared to professionals, but suitable for home cooks as well, the e-learning module includes 16 downloadable recipes, demonstrated by CIA chef-instructors in streaming video.

Access the program online at www.ciaprochef.com/coffee

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Joan Nathan and Erez Komorovsky demonstrate Roasted Cauliflower with Tehini and Silan

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

JOAN NATHAN is Washington D.C.-based author of 10 cookbooks, including Jewish Cooking in America, The Foods of Israel Today, and Joan Nathan’s Jewish Holiday Cookbook. She is currently working on a new cookbook on the foods of the Jews of France.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Chefs Teresa Buongiorno and Domenico Maggi demonstrate the preparation of Italian Torta de Ricotta.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Chefs Domenico Maggi and Antonio De Rosa demonstrate the preparation of Italian Cecamariti (dried pea soup with croutons).

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival.

A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

Presented by The Culinary Institute of America.

Video highlights from the 11th Annual Worlds of Flavor® International Conference & Festival A Mediterranean Flavor Odyssey: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions for Modern Palates.

A MEDITERRANEAN FLAVOR ODYSSEY: PRESERVING AND REINVENTING TRADITIONS FOR MODERN PALATES

November 6–8, 2008

The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone Napa Valley, California

In this first-of-its-kind Web cast initiative, Spain’s most famous wine region comes directly to you. Experience Rioja as if you were there, as you watch interviews with its leading winemakers and chefs and tour the vineyards, wineries and restaurant kitchens that make this region among the most talked-about in Spain. Discover a land of breathtaking beauty and cutting-edge architecture, where the people live for wine. America’s leading sommeliers and the professional chefs at the Culinary Institute of America weigh in with their guidance on matching Rioja’s expressive red and white wines with food. All in all, it’s a delightful immersion in the rich history, culture, flavors and terroir of this storied wine region.

Narrated by Jonathan Coleman.

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Order the free DVD of this series at www.CIAprochef.com/rioja

With these differences in altitude, climate and soil in mind, let’s look again at Rioja’s sub-regions.

Order the free DVD of this series at CIAprochef.com/rioja.

Order the free DVD of this series at CIAprochef.com/rioja.

Is it any wonder that families remain in this alluring place for centuries, passing vineyards and bodegas down through generations? For the American sommeliers visiting Rioja, the trip offered the chance to meet some of the region’s leading wine families, people passionate about carrying on the work of their fathers and grandfathers and fiercely proud of their heritage.

Tasting organizer Adrian Murcia is the assistant sommelier at Chanterelle restaurant in New York City and author of a blog devoted to Rioja wine and food. To assist him in leading the tasting, he turned to Karen MacNeil, chair of wine studies at the Culinary Institute of America and author of the best-selling book, The Wine Bible. The other panelists included Skye LaTorre, sommelier of A16 restaurant in San Francisco; Paul Roberts, wine director for the French Laundry in Yountville; and Traci Dutton, a wine instructor at the Culinary Institute. Murcia assembled a broad range of Rioja wines, but left it up to Culinary Institute chef-instructors Bill Briwa, John Ash and Andy Wild to come up with food matches. Needless to say, it was a fascinating afternoon and a vivid reminder of Rioja’s many faces.

She learned to cook, Rosalba says, from watching her grandmother. My mother was a terrible cook, she told us, but every summer she sent me to spend three months with my grandmother in Piazza Armerina and she was a great cook. I’m passionate about good food—I love to cook, I love to feed people. To cook just for the sake of cooking, no—they say what I cook is pretty good, for me it’s just normal. And they’re the smallest secrets that make the difference—for instance, the eggplant in a caponata, it should be a little crunchy, it should have character…

And it’s true. From the time it was founded by the great-grandparents of Salvatore LaTerra, Ristorante Majore (My-YORE-ray) has existed by, for, and about nothing but pork, and much of the time pork cooked over live fire, which might be the best way of all.

A baroque caponata. . . and caponata is one of the signature dishes of Sicily, made with eggplant, and peppers, and tomatoes, and many other ingredients depending on where in Sicily you find yourself. A baroque caponata has a lot more ingredients and. . . we’ll find out what they are.

It’s a dish, Carmelo says, that brings together all the different influences on Sicilian cuisine, Arab, Norman, Spanish, and products that arrived after the discovery of America. No one knows what the word caponata means, but it’s related to pisto from Madrid and ratatouille from France in which there’s also this play between vegetables and agrodolce—sweet-sour. There are many variations, a winter version that uses vegetables from the mountains, a spring version that uses asparagus and peas, there’s a version that includes lamb, and even a version that adds lobster to the dish. This is a noble version, a late summer version, that requires 16 hours of preparation.

It’s flavored with fresh mint, a little bit of raw garlic, and a few fried capers. Some people add green olives, and some add a little anchovy. What makes it baroque is the addition of other ingredients, like black eggs or drunken eggs, hardboiled eggs marinated in a mixture of 70% red wine and 30% aged wine vinegar; chocolate; and then I add certain seafoods, like these red shrimp, an anchovy, and a few mussels.

Today it’s a delectable center of the culinary world, and at the center of that center is Sicily, right in the heart of the Mediterranean, the largest island, one of the most beautiful places and one of the most exciting regions – where it’s possible to experience the whole delicious panoply of what Mediterranean cuisine is all about.