It has always been my hobby to cook and I have been passionate about food and they ways of of preparation ever since. I did some research about culinary schools in Dubai and found ICCA. 

I first enrolled at their Lifestyle Classes till I decided to up my ante, and took the Cookery Diploma course. 

It offered short training time, convenient location, and there was an immediate response to my enquiry. Plus, they have industry standard equipments at school. 

My grandma was my inspiration to cook, she was always encouraged me. My coming to ICCA was dedicated to her memory. I cook for her. 

Taste of Abu Dhabi was my favourite experience in ICCA. Meeting all the celebrity chefs, learning from them and getting to experience working for 12 hours straight can be fun if you really are passionate about what you do and love what you do. 

I would say, it would be two British chefs... Gordon Ramsay and Jaime Oliver

My favorite experience in ICCA was Taste of Dubai, we got a chance to prepare the mis- en-place for the Miele Culinary Theatre, working 12 hours a day everyday, help out the audience while cooking together with the celebrity chef, and it gave us the chance to showcase our knowledge, talent and great bonding as we stay at the kitchen without much supervision. We took care of the kitchen as we were taught how and we owned it. Its a wonderful feeling being commended by the likes of Gary Rhodes and Aldo Zilli with our work at the kitchen.

Wolfgang puck and my Sicilian grandmother Dolly.

As a student of ICCA Dubai, we were provided with opportunities to showcase our talent outside the school with events like Dubai Christmas Festival, joining international culinary competitions like International Fine Food Festival wherein I was able to win 2 silver medals and a bronze medal. And they also extend to ICCA graduates all the wonderful opportunity you get while you're enrolled in school, as an alum, they have asked me to work with them to represent Team ICCA at the Sharjah Expo: Taste of Ramadan. 

My parents inspired me to cook. As early as 7 yrs. old, my mother would always ask me to help her in the kitchen and now, 10 years later, with a strong passion to cook. I wish to become a professional chef. 

Taste of Abu Dhabi for sure! We get to meet several celebrity chefs, spend time with our trainers and friends, and learned so much about handling food. I will never forget it. I love ICCA for giving such wonderful memories. 

I have always dreamed of owning my own restaurant, I have been working for the food industry for years now and because I wanted to make things right and do things right, thats why I enrolled myself in ICCA Dubai. People say, that I'm too old for this. But for me, all people are allowed to dream big. Being a proud person, I just have to swallow my pride and told myself that I will do it. 

And here I am, ready for my restaurant, after gaining the respects of many big names in the industry, after hearing them saying "I wish you changed your mind and come and work with me". 

If people say you cannot do it, just say to yourself... bring it on. 

I enjoyed my time in ICCA, the learning experience inside the kitchen was fun. The atmosphere wasn't that scary considering you work together with the Professional Students in the same kitchen. They made us all feel like we are one family doing what we all love to do which is cooking. 

It was our 4 years wedding anniversary and I bought a day course at ICCA in Satwa. Chef Vinod demonstrated how to make pizza and gnocchi by hand. He was very pleasant and had a gentle approach to teaching and made the day memorable and also enjoyable.Through this experience I realized how I missed working in hospitality and would really like to work in this area.

I then applied to do the Certificate Course for both Cookery and Patisserie part-time which led me to complete my diplomas.

Ever since I can remember, I had a special place for all things sweet and baked! At the age of 13 I knew I wanted to be in the hospitality industry… but hadn’t quite worked out the details yet to that dream.

The first thing I do when sitting down at a restaurant table and have the menu in my hands, is flip the pages to the dessert section as fast as possible, because my whole entire meal will be ordered according to what I will have for dessert. I am a true Sweet Tooth at heart!

I completed a Sugar Craft course with distinction at Prue Leith Chefs Academy in South Africa. Later that same year I joined The South African Cake Decorators Guild where I started studying all the “old school” techniques to decorating and later passed my first Instructors exam. After packing up and moving countries to the beautiful, inspiring and promising city of Dubai. I decided to pursue my education, which led me to enrol part time at ICCA for their Amateur Patisserie Program. 

All the chefs and staff of ICCA were very accommodating and they made cooking a lot of fun, even for beginners like me. 

I heard about Gelato University from a family friend. ICCA is a diversified cultural learning environment and what I enjoyed the most was spending time with and talking to the other students.

In addition to the gelato course, I have also taken the Amateur Patisserie course, Lifestyle classes and the Sugarcraft Program.