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CIA At Greystone – Napa
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Students in the CIA at Greystone’s teaching kitchen. Photo credit: Keith Ferris/The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.[/caption]
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Greystone, the Culinary Institute of America’s prestigious outpost in the Napa Valley, is a gorgeous tufa-stone edifice, the retrofitted former site of Christian Brothers Winery in St. Helena. The architecture is Romanesque; grand arches, cathedral ceilings and jutting towers set the scene.