Yesterday, ICE alum Amy Eubanks, the Executive Chef at BLT Fish, returned to ICE to demonstrate some of her favorite fish dishes and discuss life in a restaurant kitchen for ICE students.

Eubanks graduated from the Culinary Arts program in 1999. She started working with Laurent Tourondel as an extern at Cello, where she ended up staying for two and a half years. While there she spent a year as poissonier, no small feat considering that the famed restaurant specialized in seafood. Because she wanted to learn how to cook meat, she then went to Cafe Boulud, where she worked with Daniel Boulud and Andrew Carmellini. When Tourondel opened BLT Steak in 2004, he hired her as a lead line cook, followed by a promotion to sous chef. Because of her strong seafood skills, she became sous chef of BLT Fish upon its opening, then chef de cuisine in 2006 and executive chef in March 2010. In 2010, she was inducted into the ICE Alumni Hall of Achievement for her accomplishments. More…

Meet The Culinary Entrepreneurs is an innovative lecture series featuring some of America’s top culinary business owners. The sessions, held throughout the year, are designed to bring some of the country’s best restaurateurs, specialty food retailers, caterers, and other business luminaries to ICE to speak with students in ICE’s Culinary Management program as well as guests.

Last Friday, Jennifer Baum, the Founder and President of Bullfrog & Baum Public Relations came to speak at ICE as part of the series. Baum’s company is an award-winning public relations and marketing agency specializing in food, hospitality, lifestyle and consumer public relations and brand management with offices in NYC and LA. Baum left a career in finance to start her company in 2000. In the past 12 years, they have worked to turn names like Laurent Tourondel and Michael Psilakis into internationally recognized brands while being a strategist for well-known chefs like Bobby Flay and Wolfgang Puck. Her other clients include Alex Guarnaschelli, Alain Ducasse, Richard Blais and Sara Moulton — a veritable who’s who of the food world. More…