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The Culinary Institute of America is one of the top training institutes for culinary arts in the United States. Located in Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York, USA, a few miles north of Poughkeepsie. The school uses the initials CIA for itself and is sometimes humorously called the "CIA on the Hudson."
The school offers two Bachelor of Professional Studies (B.P.S) degrees—one in Culinary Arts Management, the other in Baking and Pastry Arts Management—or an Associate of Occupations Studies (A.O.S) in Culinary Arts or Baking and Pastry Arts.
Admission requires prior (six months) food service experience, and all programs include a paid period of employment (externship) in the industry. Properly credentialed industry professionals may also apply to be tested to be certified as an American Culinary Federation (A.C.F.) master chef.
The school maintains five public restaurants in Hyde Park, New York: American Bounty, Apple Pie Bakery Café, Escoffier Room, Ristorante Caterina de' Medici, and St. Andrew's Café.
In keeping with the possibly tongue-in-cheek initialism for the school, some years ago they also founded a video and book publishing department which they named the Food and Beverage Institute (FBI).
The CIA also maintains a branch campus, the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in the Napa Valley in California.
Two books have been written about the CIA The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman documents his experiences as an "undercover student" as he passes through the classes at an accelerated rate, and The Soul of a Chef also by Ruhlman, documents seven chefs taking the grueling ten day Master Chef test held annually at the CIA, a bistro owner rising to stardom, and Thomas Keller's French Laundry.
The 1995 movie Heavy starring Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Liv Tyler features several scenes shot on location at the CIA.