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.

On October 5, Dorie Greenspan is coming to ICE to teach a class for ICE’s Center for Food Media, a unique program of classes for anyone looking to learn more about food writing, recipe testing, food photography, food styling, self-publishing a cookbook or even starting your own food blog.

Looking for a fun and interesting culinary class? ICE offers more than 1,700 recreational classes each year. Here is a round-up of some of the classes happening this month:

Whether as chefs, cake decorators, specialty food purveyors or caterers, ICE graduates are achieving their goals in a plethora of avenues in the food world. Check out just some of the alumni finding success and making recent headlines.

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.”

Until now, Director of Wine and Beverage Studies Richard Vayda has taken us on a worldwide, whirlwind tour of the wines of France, Italy and Spain.

There’s a lot more to Spain than running bulls and a World Cup title.

I've walked by (and into) many bakeries in my day, especially living in the Village back when the old-school places were still trying to hold on to their space as increasing rents threatened to drive them out so the next Marc Jacobs store could find its home. While others looked forward to window shopping the hottest new trends in fashion, I held on to the vision of pastries that lined the windows of the bakeries along Bleeker Street and throughout the neighborhood.

Last week ICE alum Gail Simmons was striding down the halls at ICE for one of our ICE Chefs’ Advisory Council meetings. Yesterday, she was striding down the red carpet at the Emmy awards in her role as host of Top Chef.