I recently visited the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley on a shoot for Barron’s Magazine where chef Almir da Fonseca was leading a three day ‘Bistro Boot Camp’ cooking class in the Institute’s very well appointed kitchen.  At the end of this particular exercise chef gave a critique of the finished plates.  When he was finished we all sat down for one truly amazing lunch!

In 2009 California cut education funding by $12 billion.  City College of San Francisco lost $20 million in state and local funding.  It has an enrollment in excess of 100,000 students.  This is their campus.  This is the state of education in the US. |  Photographed 5.21.2010