History
The college was founded by Frances Roth and Katharine Angell in 1946 as the New Haven Restaurant Institute in New Haven, Connecticut. Initial enrollment was fifty students and the faculty included a dietitian, a baker, and a chef. It was founded as a vocational training school for returning veterans of World War II. In 1951, the name was changed to The Culinary Institute of America. In 1972, the school moved to a former Jesuit novitiate in Hyde Park, New York.
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