Food is Life

October 5/2014  Hot,,,,,,, 95 today, 55 at night.  So we are headed out early for a ride to get back before 3 pm and the heat of the day. 

Greystone Campus

entrance marker into the Greystone Building

Do you love food?  Wine, chocolates, olive oil, cheese, cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, spices?   And all of the above set in a beautiful landscaped old stone winery.  Sounds like a wonderful day and it was!!!   In St. Helena, one of the most prominent chef schools in the United States exists  The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.    The school is in the old Christian Brothers Winery.    Tickets for a tour of the grounds and school are only $10 so we bought our tickets and spent our wait time having coffee and breakfast in the Bakery Cafe.   After the tour we just had to go back and have lunch too:) 

bread for the bakery cafe

my salad from the schools garden

The students run all the restaurants on the property.   You can do a tasting bar of wine or olive oil or cheese or chocolates too. 

handmade chocolates

Dinner reservations at a couple of their restaurants are also available. 

class in the kitchen

another class in a bigger kitchen

beautiful chandeliers in the campus hallway

Brother Timothy's Corkscrew collection

And the Spice Islands Marketplace is where you can buy kitchen gadgets, cookbooks, spices, and all kinds of culinary things!

cookie jar