Healthy sandwiches from the grill

The focus is on fresh, healthy food

Sustainable seafood, hormone-free, pasture-raised meats, and local, seasonally grown produce are the focus of our Executive Chef, Rick Low. You can taste it in everything he creates—an authentic cuisine that’s both regionally and ethnically diverse.

Meet The Chef

Chef Rick Low is the Executive Chef at the Culinary Conference Center.  He has been working with us from the very beginning in 2008. View his full bio.

Chef Low is an active member of:

  • The James Beard Foundation
  • American Culinary Federation

Chef Low is happy to share some of his favorite cooking tips and recipes that he has developed over his career.  Be sure to visit his blog, The Chef's Pantry, to read about his latest preparations.  Sign up for our e-mail blast (with the form in the upper-left corner) to stay updated on what’s cooking at the Culinary Conference Center.  Then, come and taste for yourself.

Our staff shares our values

The Culinary Conference Center supports the profession by directing students and graduates from the Culinary Arts Institute of Hudson County Community College in the kitchen.  We’re proud to employ 80% of our staff through the college's culinary program.  Our mission is to provide real-world experience—with a reverence for local ingredients—to students in the professional culinary crafts.

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Chef Rick Low

Executive Chef Rick Low

Rick Low, Executive Chef at The Culinary Conference Center at Hudson County Community College operated by FLIK International.  Having over 20 years of diverse chef and management experience Chef Low is a great asset to the Culinary Center. Chef Low is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park NY. In addition, as a young culinarian, Mr. Low had attended “Lycee D’Hotellerie ET De Tourisme”in De Saint-Quentin France and is a graduate of NY BOCES Culinary Arts Program.

During his career he served as an Executive Chef for the 2002 Winter Olympics Village in Salt Lake City. While at the Winter Olympics, he assisted in teaching culinary students at Johnson & Wales University. In addition Mr. Low was Executive Chef for NBC and was a Featured Chef on CNBC’s “Power Lunch”.