The Culinary Arts Institute (CAI) at UVU provides premier training for students interested in a career in professional cooking or baking. The program offers small, hands-on classes, focusing on individualized attention and development. The Culinary Arts Institute provides experience through engaged, industry- based learning.
Students will learn the contemporary and classic techniques in food and baking production using state-of-the-art equipment in our kitchen labs. The CAI also applies real-world training as students run full-service fine dining operations at Restaurant Forte.
The Culinary Arts Institute has several short certificates available in different specializations for students looking for advanced skills leading to direct employment in different industries within the culinary arts world. These certificates can stack into an associate degree.
Understand basic and advanced baking and pastry techniques and terms and produce basic and advanced baking and pastry items.
Produce basic culinary and baking items, including cookies, breads, stocks, sauces, poultry fabrication, fish fabrication, and breakfast items.
For college students/adults looking for advanced skills leading to direct employment in a restaurant on the hot line.
"I really liked the variety of culinary lab classes provided in the culinary arts program, each taught by different chefs. These chefs come from a completely different background, are full of knowledge, and are great to share their tricks of the trade. I have learned so much and have enjoyed every minute."
Jamie Ledesma,Culinary Arts Institute
"'When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply, and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.' —Alice Waters
This simple love and appreciation of food is what we strive to instill in our students every day here at the UVU Culinary Arts Institute."
Accreditation established through the American Culinary Federation
