Culinary Arts

Professional organization that promote education, apprenticeship, and certification of culinarians.

Professional organization's user friendly website where you can list yourself/business, find personal chefs, and access trainings.

Community of baking industry professionals who have joined together to provide continuing education, networking opportunities and professional development. The members include commercial bakers, engineers, food technologists and the suppliers of equipment, ingredients, and services in the grain-based food industry.

Provide resources and foster community among Black professionals in the food and drink industry. Our mission is to counter the erasure of Black voices in the industry by promoting and supporting the work they do and offering a platform for them to connect and share their stories.

Provide educational resources to artisan bakers. We are the definitive resource for information on all aspects of artisan baking in America. Support and foster the growth of the artisan baking community. We are an independent and creative group of professional bakers, farmers, millers, suppliers, educators, students, home bakers, technical experts, and bakery owners and managers. Define and uphold the highest professional standards. We respect bakers as highly skilled artisans who vigilantly strive for quality. Celebrate the craft and the passion of the artisan baker.

The Association's mission is to represent, educate and promote a rapidly growing restaurant industry.

Non-profit, educational organization dedicated to encouraging and communicating economic research and analyses and exchanging ideas in wine economics. The Association’s principal activities include publishing a refereed journal--The Journal of Wine Economics--and staging scholarly conferences that are forums for current wine related economic research.

Our 7,000 members are largely wine consumers, but also amateur and professional winemakers; chefs, restaurateurs and foodies; educators and students; journalists; wine suppliers and wineries. We quench our thirst for wine knowledge through local tastings—there are 180 AWS chapters across the United States, and through regional and national wine events and formal training and wine courses.

AAAV's mission is to: (1) increase the quality of wine communications, foster a spirit and culture of inclusion and cooperation within the African American growers, wineries and vintners; (2) Develop a sense of community among our members through informal networking and social functions; and (3) Facilitate access to relevant viticulture, enological and industry information to our members. The organization welcomes professionals from all aspects of the wine industry and invites interested consumers and students as supporting members of AAAV.

Founded by Julia Coney, Black Wine Professionals is a resource for wine industry employers and gatekeepers, professionals, and the food and beverage community. Our goal is to lift up the multifaceted Black professionals in the world of wine.

Nonprofit international membership organization for wine professionals that elevates the wine and beverage community through industry education. Feature articles, podcasts, and videos are publicly available and cover varied topics in the world of wine. For members, we have additional in-depth educational materials, forums for discussion, events, and much more.

membership-based nonprofit organization (501c3) focused on providing wine and spirits education along with the conferral of several certifications.

Founded in 1934 to improve and bring uniformity to the brewing industry on a technical level. Today, ASBC is comprised of individual and corporate members worldwide representing breweries of all sizes, the allied industries that supply the brewing industry, academic researchers, government agencies, and organizations associated with regulation of the brewing industry.

The Cicerone Certification Program offers independent assessment and certification so that industry professionals—as well as consumers—can be sure of the knowledge and skills possessed by current and prospective beer servers.

purpose of promoting, advancing, and improving the professional interest of brew and malt house production and technical personnel. Today, Master Brewers is a dynamic, global community working to advance the brewing, fermentation, and allied industries by: advocating the exchange of knowledge; creating, assembling, interpreting, and disseminating credible and beneficial information; developing world-class education offerings; and providing valuable personal and professional development opportunities. Master Brewers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Master Brewers has more than 4,000 members in 25 different districts from more than 50 countries throughout the world.

Majority craft brewery focused, developed Intensive Brewing Science and Engineering and the CraftBrewers Apprenticeship Program courses.

The Certified Tourism Ambassador™ (CTA) program is industry-recognized certification that strategically aligns a community’s people infrastructure — destination leaders, stakeholder businesses and the tourism front-line — to strengthen tourism and deliver quality experiences for visitors and locals.

national association representing the Control State Systems - those jurisdictions that directly control the distribution and sale of beverage alcohol within their borders. NABCA serves its members by providing research, analytics and alcohol regulatory information, and acts as liaison to federal, state and local governments, research groups, public health associations, the media and other organizations impacting alcohol policy.

Provides leadership which enhances the independent beer and beverage distribution industry; to advocate before government and the public; to encourage the responsible consumption of alcohol; and to provide programs and services that will benefit its members.

A community of hospitality professionals that enhance workplace amenities and foodservice through education, networking and innovation.

TIPS (Training for Intervention ProcedureS) is a leader in education and training for the responsible service, sale, and consumption of alcohol. TIPS training is conducted in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and in over 50 different countries.