The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is more than just a pit stop on your way Upstate. The globally-acclaimed institute offers boot camps and a multitude of classes: cooking, wine and beverage, family friendly and even holiday. Though in high demand, some of the classes have registration and waiting-list availability, with options that focus on seafood, bistro, plant-powered, pastry and Mediterranean cooking.  If stopping by for a unique culinary dining experience, the CIA boasts six student-run restaurants in its Hyde Park, NY campus. American Bounty focuses on the seasons and products of the Hudson Valley. Bocuse reimagines the execution of…

Photography by Quentin Bacon When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn…