AICA’s Course: A Perfect 10

MANILA, Philippines - The Academy for International Culinary Art’s (AICA) roots are grounded in classic culinary arts. However, its diploma programs ensure that yours will be comprehensive. The programs were designed to be as intensive and industry-based as it can, allowing the student to master the techniques, methodologies, disciplines even the distinctive flavors of various cuisines which can take them further to anywhere in the industry, and the world.

With almost 10 years of evolution, AICA’s programs are close to perfection! All proven and tested to help every aspiring chef to get closer to making their dreams a reality.

Among the Academy’s core value is Progressiveness – to never be complacent, always improve, and always renew. It has since then kept that commitment and has now reinvented its programs to exceed industry requirements, here and abroad. The Academy is very much pleased to introduce the Premiere Diploma program.

With this program, students get to earn three diplomas in less than two years and gain the edge by becoming well-rounded, excelling in the fields of culinary, baking and pastry arts with level 1, being the Diploma for International Culinary Arts. It is composed of subjects that teach students a specific skill or knowledge that intensifies in difficulty as they progress. Skills such as basic knife handling, sauce making, cooking and baking methods and techniques, to name a few, are practiced even in the succeeding lessons and since partnered with more hands-on training, mastery is achieved. The program also allows students to train their palate and senses to a vast sea of tastes, flavors and premium-grade ingredients as you take on cooking cuisines from around the globe.

Baking and Pastry Arts is another specialization one can learn from this diploma program. Cookies, pies and tarts, soufflés and mousses, and cakes are among the goodies students can learn making in this level. The goal here is not just to teach students the recipes, but to train them to master the techniques to the point that they themselves can come up and price their own recipes.

What’s more is that a student doesn’t only get to master culinary arts but they are also equipped for the business side of it. They develop their entrepreneurial skills by doing a feasibility study - writing a business plan, menu planning and operations management, to restaurant public relations and marketing. A restaurant simulation will strengthen these skills as students manage and run their “own” restaurant for a week. This are all covered in the Advanced Culinary Arts and Professional Kitchen Management level and is perfect for those who took culinary arts planning to put up their own restaurant or establishment someday.

Since it is industry-based, AICA has also designed immersion and externship programs that will expose the students to what’s real in the industry. They are taken on-site to put their learnings into practice and work in restaurants, hotels, or other culinary enterprise. This brings them real-life experience which we found to be a very good teacher.

As you finish the whole program, you can expect to be a professional ready to take on any culinary challenge with ease and excellence. Go with the Perfect 10 because you deserve a perfect 10. Join us in AICA!