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By Stanley Rubenti
Stanley.Rubenti@culinaryartsschoolsreview.com
Culinary Arts School Review Columnist

There’s really only one U.S. city that can vie with Los Angeles and New York for supremacy in the world of fine dining and gourmet cuisine: Chicago, Illinois. If you are at all interested in working in Chicago, you should seriously consider attending one of the many excellent culinary arts schools scattered around the city.

What Makes Chicago Culinary Arts Schools so Unique?

For starters, the various cooking classes offered in Chicago are infinitely more diverse than what you might find at most other culinary arts schools. Like New York and Los Angeles, Chicago has a diverse and cosmopolitan population. As such, the various culinary arts schools in this booming metropolis must cater to the wide range of dining needs represented. By the time you graduate, you’ll have taken cooking classes in vegan cuisine, Indian curry dishes, Japanese food, French pastries, Peruvian chicken, and countless other specialties. Needless to say, the more cooking classes you take, the more career options you will have at your disposal once you graduate.

Other Benefits of Chicago Culinary Arts Schools

The diversity of cooking classes is not the only thing that makes culinary arts schools in Chicago so outstanding. Don’t underestimate the importance of instructors, facilities, externships/internships, and alumni networks. In these areas, culinary arts schools in Chicago certainly don’t disappoint.

Living in Chicago

With cold winters and hot summers, Chicago is a city of extremes. But this also means residents can enjoy a wide range of activities such as sunbathing and ice-skating on Lake Michigan, a body of water so large that even visitors from the coasts can’t tell that it’s not an ocean. Little Italy is a shopper’s paradise, and those interested in blues music are advised not to miss Green Dolphin Street or any of the other 60+ jazz venues scattered around town.

If you’re serious about becoming a world-class gourmet chef, be sure to add Chicago to your list of potential places to study.

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About the Author

A freelance writer, Stanley Rubenti currently lives in Bangkok where he writes columns for a variety of publications. Stanley holds a B.A. in history.