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I finally got around to using the gift certificate my parents bought me for Christmas. It was for a food enthusiast course at the Culinary Institute of America (http://www.ciachef.edu). I've had a few enthusiast courses there before- Chef Griffiths' American Regional Cuisine, Chef Cheng's Introduction to Asian Cuisines, Chef von Bargen's Fusion Cooking for Two, and Chef von Bargen's Flavors of Southeast Asia. (He's Dutch, but he lived in China for a long time, married a woman from Sichuan Province, and was a high-ranked chef at a five star hotel in Jakarta for years.) This time I decided to go for something a little different, so I will be spending September 15th of this year at the Culinary Institute's "Timeless Desserts" course.

Won't be going to their restaurants afterwards, but I will be hitting the campus book and supply store, so I may wind up having to make a willpower roll to resist coming home with knives that cost more than their weight in human corneas.