Culinary Institute of America
A New Exciting Experience!
Shop the MarketplaceGather your wish list for everything food and wine-related, and come prepared to shop! The Marketplace is stocked with cookware, bakeware, kitchen tools and utensils, items for the young chefs in your life, and more than 1,700 cookbook titles—many autographed by the author.
Learn at the Flavor Bar While in the store, be sure to visit the Flavor Bar, where you can enjoy unique "Taste Like a Chef” sensory experiences that will give you insight into food ingredients and how a chef uses flavor to create perfectly seasoned dishes and confections. Calibrate Your Palate—every hour on the hour at $10.00 per person. Approximately 15 minutes. Salty, sweet, bitter, sour: these flavors are the chef's palate, providing the primary colors that are used to create unlimited new combinations. Once you learn the basics, you"ll have new confidence in creating a perfectly seasoned dish. The Chocolate Experience—on the half hour at $10.00 per person. Approximately 15 minutes. You’ll be guided through chocolate from start to finish: the origins of chocolate, components of chocolate, how chocolate is produced, and a comparison tasting of single-origin chocolates. Taste at the Oleoteca® Villa CampestriA not-to-be-missed Flavor Bar experience is the country’s first Oleoteca® Villa Campestri, a groundbreaking project that will introduce you to “super-premium” olive oils made from olives harvested at the peak flavor and then handled under the most stringent storage and transportation conditions to assure a degree of freshness that will be strikingly new to most Americans. Greystone ChocolatesHand crafted from single source, estate chocolate, Greystone Chocolates are an elegant reflection of the art and science of fine chocolate making. Our premium chocolates are created under the direction of CIA Greystone’s distinguished baking faculty in the new Chocolate Laboratory adjacent to and visible from the Flavor Bar.