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How Rick Smilow Acquired Cooking School With a Cold Call and Grew The Institute of Culinary Education to a National Institution
From Margarine Tastings to Culinary Empire: Rick Smilow's Journey Building Institute of Culinary Education
In this inspiring episode, Rick Smilow, CEO and Chairman of the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), shares his journey from Kellogg MBA to culinary education pioneer. After magazine ad sales and product management at Nabisco Brands, he launched Wagging Tail Limited, a pet snack venture that reached 2,000 supermarkets before being sold. In 1995, a cold call from a broker led him to Peter Kump's New York Cooking School, whose founder had suffered a cancer relapse with no succession…
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