Today marks Constitution Day, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the founding fathers on September 17, 1787. To celebrate, ICE’s resident culinary historian Cathy Kaufman gave a hands-on demonstration for students on the food and drink of the late eighteenth century.

ICE hosted the biannual Career Fair yesterday afternoon.

Tonight, Top Chef: Just Desserts will premiere on Bravo. ICE alumni Zac Young, Malika Ameen and Seth Caro will make their TV debut as contestants on the show. The show will be hosted by fellow ICE alum Gail Simmons and will feature appearances by well-known pastry stars such as Sylvia Weinstock, Sherri Yard and Michael Laiskonis. It promises to be a sweet season of watching chefs make cakes, cookies and other sweets. We spoke with ICE alum Zac Young last week. Today, we take a look at Malika Ameen.

ICE offers a year-round series of lectures called Meet the Culinary Entrepreneurs, during which a wide range of successful culinary business leaders and luminaries share their expertise with students and guests. Yesterday, Tito Beveridge, the founder and master distiller of Tito’s Handmade Vodka came to speak about his experience founding the first legal distillery in Texas and making a vodka so good it earned a Unanimous Judge’s Decision Double Gold Medal in the 2001 Worlds Spirit Competition.

As the pastry arts become more popular and the restaurant world pays more attention to the end of the meal, ICE’s own Chef Nick Malgieri is staying ahead of the curve.

The one thing that always struck me when I started working at ICE in Career Services was the motivation and inspiration that brought the students to the Culinary Arts or Pastry & Baking Arts programs.

Yesterday, Tim Koerner came to ICE to demonstrate some molecular gastronomy techniques for using liquid nitrogen, aromas and smoke in a professional kitchen.

When ICE President Rick Smilow and Anne E. McBride wrote "Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food," they discovered a plethora of food jobs they had never heard of before. Since the book's release, they have been discovering even more interesting career paths in the food world. DICED shares some of them with you in a reoccurring feature, “Unique Culinary Careers.”

ICE Culinary Arts students learn a huge array of cooking techniques and ingredients from which then can create delicious seasonal dishes.

The Top Chef: Just Desserts premiere is only a week away. ICE alumni Zac Young, Malika Ameen and Seth Caro are competing on the show. Alumni Hall of Achievement inductee Gail Simmons will act as host. The show will feature guest appearances by famed pastry professionals Sylvia Weinstock, Sherri Yard and Michael Laiskonis. The promise of watching chefs performing challenges involving wedding cakes, flaming desserts and chocolate showpieces has many people counting down the days till the debut of the Top Chef spinoff on September 15. Before we binge on what is sure to be a delectable season of television, we indulged our sweet tooth by talking to competitor Zac Young.