Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Culinary Vegetable Institute

On Tuesday may 5th our club toured the Culinary Vegetable Institute. The Culinary Vegetable Institute was started by the Jones family after being approached about growing specialty produce for top chefs all over the country. The CVI has designed their facility to provide a retreat atmosphere for their executive chefs and teams by providing them an escape from their busy lifestyles. The sleeping areas are without tv’s and overlook the fantastic wooded scenery. The facility has great craftsmanship of maple woodwork throughout the facility for a lodge like décor. The CVI has a greenhouse on their property that allows chef’s to pick herbs and vegetables for food to table preparation. The CVI provides a wide variety of events that are open to the public including their well known Food and Wine show that is approaching in July. This event typically features a well known celebrity chef and in the past years Paula Dean was the celebrity chef.

The CVI is company that is also affiliated with Veggie U, a youth educational program and Chefs garden that is known for their produce.

For more information visit http://www.culinaryvegetableinstitute.com/cvi_cms/

JM/TC

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