Where the Air is as Sweet as the Cooking

Visited the CIA today - that's the Culinary Institute of America, the world's most prestigious cooking school. This year they celebrate their 60th year educating tomorrow's top chefs. The school sits on a former Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park and overlooks the mighty Hudson River.

It's incredulous but the smell of sweet ripened apple pie wafts through the campus like it's a normal presence. It made me soooo hungry.

Someday, I'll be back with Carrie with her sister Julie, she's the student in training here so we can dine at one of the four on-campus restaurants: the Ristorante Caterina de' Medici, St. Andrew's Café, the American Bounty Restaurant or the Apple Pie Bakery Café. All meals are prepared by the students.