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UNICEF Cookbook Project Accepting Recipes!

Good morning and happy Monday to our readers! CiboChat is pleased to share the following announcement to recipe lovers out there. Submit your recipe and become a part of a cookbook project that will help others: Student Services is pleased to announce that Palazzi and Apicuis, in collaboration with UNICEF Italia, will be collecting recipes […]


Video: Lunch at the James Beard Foundation

Catch the entire service of our lunch event here. More details on the JBF lunch to be featured soon, check back with us!


Video: Behind the Scenes at Our James Beard Lunch

Watch our team prepare for our first event at the James Beard Foundation!


Video Wrap Up From De Gustibus Event

  See what happened firsthand at our chefs’ demonstration at De Gustibus Cooking School at Macy’s Herald Square. To read about this event and the recipes presented, read our detailed blog post!


Video from Prep Day 1

  Here’s a quick, fast-motion look into our first prep day at Mi Kitchen, an incubator facility for start up businesses in the food industry. We prepared menu items for our De Gustibus event at this space, where our brigade team was broken down into smaller groups that worked on the various components of each […]


TuttoTocana Puts on a Show at De Gustibus Macy’s Herald Square

Event number two took place at the World’s Largest Department Store: the De Gustibus Cooking School located on the 8th floor of the Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square! We all headed to Macy’s where the group had a meeting with Salvatore Rizzo, who briefed the entire group on the location’s background. While part of […]


TuttoToscana at CUNY Queens College: Event 1 Recap

The first event of the TuttoToscana program has officially come and gone this past Tuesday. After a quick train and bus ride, the group arrived onto the Queens College campus meeting up with the Meal Planning and Management students about eating light and cooking healthy Tuscan cuisine. The goal of this particular event was to […]


Final Florence Reflections on Day 1 of NYC Prep

Our team has arrived in NYC, orientation has been held at the Beard Foundation, and this morning we are going as a team to begin the first day of prep for our upcoming Queen’s College and De Gustibus events. Team member Rachel Murphy shares final details from our JBF simulation dinner in Florence that concluded […]


Wine Producer Highlight: Salcheto Redefines Dynamic

Our team has begun the journey to NYC for Sunday’s orientation at the Beard Foundation. A final wine highlight from week 3 in Florence is shared by Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy. Salcheto is a very unique wine producer that we are proud to feature at our Beard dinner. Keep reading […]


Meet An Industry Professional: Alessia Lana, Antinori Marketing

A definite highlight of our Florence preparation was meeting with Antinori marketing officer Alessia Lana and getting the behind the scenes details of the Santa Cristina wine brand makes that will be featured at our James Beard events. Special Event Management team member Rachel Murphy reports on our encounter with this wine marketing professional. Santa […]


Road Trip to Queens College: TuttoToscana Student Team Members Take the Stage!

Week 3 in Florence focuses on Queens College and our long-awaited departure for the NYC! Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy talks about the first event on the TuttoToscana schedule at Queens. Keep reading to find out more about Queens College presentation. Queens College is the first stop for the TuttoToscana team; […]


Video Interview: Therese Sullivan on Real Italian

Our video channel is up and running! We are proud to feature the lovely kitchen brigade member Therese Sullivan who will be firing up the kitchen with Chefs Trapani, De Castro and Boualy in NYC kitchens. Therese is an Apicius alumni from Robert Morris University in Chicago, Illinois. She studied abroad with the RMU culinary […]


Proudly Presenting: Our JBF Dinner Event Wine Producers

Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy presents updates on the wine for the James Beard Foundation  event located in Village in New York City. The TuttoToscana team offers a delicious sneak peek of the recipe testing for the contemporary Chianti-themed demonstration. Just who are the wineries involved with the dinner gala? The […]


Testing Tuscan For De Gustibus at Macy’s Herald Square

Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy presents updates on the food and wine for De Gustibus at Macy’s Herald Square event located in the heart NYC, Manhattan. The TuttoToscana team offers a delicious sneak peek of the recipe testing for the contemporary Chianti-themed demonstration. The focus on this week’s is De Gustibus, […]


A TuttoToscana Event at America’s Largest Department Store: De Gustibus at Macy’s Herald Square

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Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy presents updates on the food and wine for De Gustibus at Macy’s Herald Square event located in the heart NYC, Manhattan. The TuttoToscana team will be testing out recipes for the contemporary Chianti-themed demonstration. What is De Gustibus and what will TuttoToscana be doing there? De […]


Week 1 Down, Week 2 On!

Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy presents updates on the food and wine for the renown James Beard Foundation event located in the heart of the Village in NYC. The TuttoToscana group comes together for this weekly wrap-up of the week. Find out what we are improving and changing for the upcoming […]


From Passion to Paring Knives: JBF Prep in Florence

Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy presents updates on the food and wine for the renown James Beard Foundation event located in the heart of the Village in NYC. The TuttoToscana team will be testing out recipes for the contemporary Chianti-themed lunch and dinner. What happens behind the scenes when preparing for […]


The Apicius / James Beard Connection

Photo by Meaghan Kacsmar Special Event Management and PR Team Member Rachel Murphy introduces one of our three event venues: the renown James Beard Foundation located in the heart of the Village in NYC. The TuttoToscana team will present at this venue a contemporary Chianti-themed lunch and dinner. Just who was James Beard? Find out […]


TuttoToscana 2012: We are on!

The 2012 and 8th edition of TuttoToscana has officially begun! The team of Florence University of the Arts students and faculty representing the Apicius culinary, baking, and wine departments, have come together in Florence for 3 weeks of event preparation for this year’s event cycle in NYC. We will present menus that will express a […]


When the Food Writers are Professional Culinarians…

In the profession of food writing, a must have quality is technical food knowledge, in addition to being a creative and language-attentive writer. The Food Communications and Publishing department at FUA had the pleasure of hosting a group of professional culinary degree-seeking students from Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. The Greenville group came from […]


How to Feed an Artist in Residence

An artist in residence becomes a part of a space, a home, where his/her presence and art converge into a single collaboration. With residencies we often talk about where the artist lives and works, how the space may influence and foster artwork. CiboChat wants to know, however, what does an artist in residence eat? We […]


Through the Lens: TuttoToscana Documentation Perspective

Meaghan shares what it was like on the photographer’s side of the lens while documenting the TuttoToscana events. Through out the weeklong series of TuttoToscana events in NYC, I was able to apply everything I had learned in Florence to real life situations. Documenting culinary events, although sometimes repetitive for certain types of coverage, is […]


Astor Center Dinner, Aperitivo Style: A Social Approach to the Flavors of the Italian Riviera

Kati covers the social and gastronomic mingling that made our Astor Center Aperitivo a success. Apicius students and faculty staged the Astor Center event on October 25th.  Four different buffet stations ranging from appetizers to primi pasta dishes, meat-based secondi and elegant desserts, were featured with wines from the Santa Cristina estate. Our team enjoyed […]


Event Recap 1: De Gustibus at Macy’s in Herald Square

Kathy begins our event roundups with her report from De Gustibus at Macy’s in Herald Square. The De Gustibus cooking demo started our event-filled week here in the Big Apple.  Our team was ready and excited to get to work, and they started with some very necessary preparation for the events.  Our site for prep […]