Fancy French Pastry School Tools
A while back I shared a post on Chef Nicholas teaching at the French Pastry School (FPS) in Chicago. If you are a fan of Chef Nicholas’ Facebook page, you’ll know that his students finished up their Wedding Cake projects on Tuesday, and they are all spectacular! These students get wonderful instruction from Chef Nicholas (as anyone…
Flavors of the World: Citrus
Sensational Citrus Welcome to our third installment of Flavors of the World! I am very excited to share Chef Nicholas’ article today because it’s all about citrus flavor, and this girl LOVES citrus flavors! Spoiler Alert! I share a favorite ISAC recipe in this blog! Without further ado, I will let Chef Nicholas tell you…
With Friends like these…
Tremendously Talented Friends! Since this is, in fact, Chef Nicholas Lodge’s blog, I spend a lot of time talking about Chef Nicholas. Today I thought we would take a short break from that, and talk about some of Chef Nicholas’s friends: Marina Sousa, Lauren Kitchens, and Alan Dunn! Each of these cake-decorating extraordinaires are near…
Spring Open Houses- Photo Blog
Spring has Sprung! The entire ISAC team sincerely hopes that everyone who attended our Spring Open House this past Saturday enjoyed themselves! We certainly loved hosting not only all of our dear shoppers, students, and clients, we also immensely enjoyed hosting Susan Carberry as our guest instructor this year! Much like I did after our…
Flavors of the World: Vanilla
Chef Nicholas’ Vanilla Orchid. Photo: S. Ewing/ISAC Very Versatile Vanilla Welcome to the second segment of Chef Nicholas’ Flavors of the World blog! Last time the topic was degustation, and you can read that blog by clicking here. Today we delve into actual flavors and Chef Nicholas thought we should start with perhaps the most…
Delightful DecoGel!
It’s been awhile since we had a Products We Love blog, and I thought it was about time to share a product that I’ve been dying to share with you since way back in November after our Grand Holiday Open House! Yeah, I know… I’ve been holding out on your for FOUR whole months with…
Flavors of the World: Degustation
In American Cake Decorating (ACD) magazine this coming year, Chef Nicholas will explore the flavors of Asia, Africa, Europe, India and the Middle East, the Americas, and everywhere in between! The proper use of these flavors, and how to integrate them into cakes and pastries, will be covered. You can look forward to recipes, hints, and tips and…
Celebrate Spring with Chef Nicholas Lodge and ISAC
Spring Open House and Susan Carberry! The ISAC Spring Open House is just three weeks away on March 28, 2015! Unlike our Grand Holiday Open House, the spring event is only one day. One of the sessions has already filled up, but there are still three others you can sign up for. The sessions are…
Sugar Flowers Out of the Box!
Chef Nicholas’ Craftsy Class is ALMOST HERE! There are only FOUR more days until Chef Nicholas’ newest Craftsy class launches! Hooray! I know everyone reading this is doing a serious happy dance right now! How do I know? Because I see and read all the facebook comments, blog comments, and emails begging for Chef Nicholas…
Cupcakes and Cookies with the Red Hat Ladies
Red Hat Happiness For years, and I mean YEARS, the ISAC team has been just dying to connect with the Red Hat Society Ladies and to create a fun filled class just for them! For those of you who are not familiar with the Red Hat Society, it is a social organization for woman over fifty (although,…