Alumni in the Media and Beyond:
The November issue of Food & Wine magazine features back-to-back stories about two ICE® grads: Julie Taras (Culinary '02), co-chef/owner of Little Giant in NYC, and Allison Vines-Rushing (Culinary '00), co-chef/owner, with her husband Slade Rushing, of their highly anticipated new restaurant Longbranch, in Abita Springs, LA.
Jim Baselici (Culinary '99) is chef/owner of Catch 22, recently named "best newcomer" to Palm Beach County, FL, by the 2005 Zagat Survey.
Ramin Ganeshram's (Culinary '04) first cookbook Sweet Hands: Island Cooking from Trinidad & Tobago has been published by Hippocrene Books.
Sue Baldassano (Culinary '04) is coordinating and teaching classes at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in Manhattan, and on specialized tours throughout Mexico.
The signature chocolate cigars of chocolatier Susan Marie Owen (Culinary '91/Pastry '95) are featured in a full page spread in the December issue of Chocolatier.
Congratulations to Scott Fagan (Culinary '02) and Eric McIntyre (Culinary '02)! Their catering company, Eric Scott Celebrations & Events, was recently highlighted in the trade publication BizBash.
Pentip Mulkern and Tassanee Boonmongkol (both Culinary '04) had their new restaurant Tuk Tuk in Long Island City featured in The New York Times' City Section. The pair also own the original Tuk Tuk in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
May 2005
Ivy Stark (Culinary '95), formerly executive chef of Dos Caminos-Soho, is now the corporate executive chef of the Rosa Mexicano group of restaurants both in NYC and DC. More locations will be forthcoming in other cities.
Raymond Jackson (Culinary '95) is now the executive sous-chef of Emeril's Tchoup Chop in Orlando, FL.
Pippa Calland (Culinary '94) is the owner and executive chef of the newly opened restaurant Poetessa in the East Village.
Ryan McGuire (Culinary '04) was promoted to sous-chef for Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill.
Julie Taras (Culinary '02) is co-chef/owner of Little Giant, a cozy, 30-seat restaurant on the Lower East Side.
David Pelaez (Culinary '02) has been named master chef-instructor at the Center for Culinary Arts-Manila, the Philippines' only premier school for the training of professional chefs and hospitality industry workers.
Margot Olshan (Culinary '97) is a featured host on the PBS program "Everyday Food," a cooking show produced by Martha Stewart Living television.
MaryAnn Salcedo (Culinary '99) is the new executive chef of Merchants NY on the Upper East Side.
Amy Roth (Culinary '03) has been hired on at the Hearst Corporation's executive dining room as sous-chef.
Ryan Farr (Culinary '01) joins new executive chef Melissa Perello at Fifth Floor in San Francisco, CA. The two previously worked together at Charles Nob Hill.
Thomas Brandon Gillespie (Culinary '03) is now the wine portfolio manager at the Italian Wine Merchant.
Samantha Hoyt Lindgren (Pastry '04) has been hired as a baker at Hope & Union, fellow ICE® alum Sigrid Benedetti's bakery/cafe in Williamsburg.
Anthony Trincanello (Management '02) is the newest sales representative for Baron Francois wines.
Yolanda Padilla (Culinary '04/Management '05) has landed a line cook position at Manhattan's esteemed French restaurant, La Grenouille.
Armando Moutela (Pastry '04) has been hired out of externship at Sullivan Street Bakery.
Briar Winters (Pastry '04) has been hired out of externship at Christopher Norman Chocolates as an assistant pastry chef.
Michelle Arthur Cabrera (Pastry '02) and fellow alumna, Daphne Dupuy (Pastry '98), have opened Pastry Delights, a gourmet cookie and cake shop in Miami, FL. The two were previously at Miami's Four Seasons Hotel.
Christine Wansleben (Culinary '97) checks in from Richmond, VA, where she has launched Mise En Place, a recreational cooking school.
Lindsay Kutasi (Culinary/Management '04) has been hired out of externship at Primo restaurant in Rockland, Maine.
Pauline Rhoads (Pastry '04) is now working as a food writer for Greenwich Magazine in CT.
Hillary Porter (Pastry, '04) has opened Bread Stuy, a coffee house and full-service bakery in Brooklyn.
Deborah Pirraglia (Pastry '04) has opened 'sNice, a restaurant in the West Village selling vegetarian sandwiches and baked goods. Her classmate Emily Radtke (Pasty '04) bakes alongside her as well.
Karen Rozansky (Management '04) landed an assistant manager position at Village restaurant in Manhattan.
Sina Clark (Pastry '03/Management '04) is the new day manager at Magnolia Bakery in the West Village.
Goldi Juer (Management '04) has been hired as assistant food service director at Aramark's Reuters corporate dining account.
Jonathan Goldberg (Management '03) moves from San Domenico to Atlantic Grill, where he is maître d'.
Peter Shelsky (Culinary '02) has started his own company, Pete's Eats, which provides instructional cooking parties in client's homes.
Edward C. Frady, CEC AAC, CFBE, FMP (Culinary '86), is the executive chef for the Makaha Resort and Golf Club in Hawaii.
Steve DiMaggio (Culinary '04) has opened Giuseppe's Authentic Italian Restaurant in Closter, NJ.
January 2005
Michael O'Connell (Management '04) has accepted a position with the Vail Marriott Resort in Vail, Colorado.
Tiffany MacIsaac (Culinary '02) is the new pastry chef at Tuscan in midtown.
Sylvia Stafford (Culinary '03) has been hired as a sous-chef for one of Sodexho's corporate accounts in Sacramento, CA.
Josette Hernandez (Culinary '04) is the new F & B director of The Shoreham Hotel.
Brian Morales (Culinary '04) has been hired out of externship at Daniel.
Karen Bigman (Management '04) has been hired as catering coordinator for Blue Smoke, Danny Meyer's BBQ spot.
Joncarl Lachman (Culinary '02) is currently executive chef at The Hearty Boys cafe and catering company in Chicago.
Amy Monheit (Culinary '03) is now the event manager at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands in New Jersey.
Amanda Mass (Pastry '04) will be part of the opening team in the pastry department of the new Mesa Grill, opening this fall in Las Vegas's Caeser's Palace.
Jeremy Ravetz (Culinary '04) has been hired out of externship at Per Se, Thomas Keller's NYC restaurant in the Time Warner Building.
Ashley Brooke (Culinary '03) has moved to the Atlanta area, where she is chef/director of Salud, a cooking school located at the new Whole Foods in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Anina Stroh (Pastry '04) is handling pastry production at The Bread Company, organic bread bakery in Montclair, New Jersey.
Allison DeWine (Culinary '03) is the new assistant food editor at Country Living Magazine.
Daniel Pericles (Culinary '00) has been hired as a tournant at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park.
Anthony Iliakostas (Culinary '03) joins Aramark as food production manager at New York University.
Danielle Fishbein (Pastry '04) accepted a pastry position at Radius, one of Boston's finest restaurants.
Tami Anderson (Pastry '03) has just opened a bed and breakfast (and soon-to-be bakery) called The Sunny Grange (sunnygrange.com) in Campton, NH.
Jennifer McCormick (Pastry '04) landed an assistant pastry chef job at Sweet Sisters, a high-end cake design and pastry shop in Totowa, NJ.
Susan Baldassano (Culinary '04) will be teaching a cooking class on Oaxacan cooking, based on her annual tours to Oaxaca, at Classic Thyme in Westfield, NJ.
Randy Booth (Culinary '04) is now the head chef at Scuba Sushi in NYC.
Dana Lipkin (Culinary '03) is a pastry cook at Gray Kunz's brand new restaurant, Cafe Gray.
Dan Kyse (Management '04) has been named general manager at Oakville Grill in Hawthorne, NJ....
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