Maples Institute for Culinary Arts

Learn Culinary Arts at the Maples Institute

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Located on the Walters State Sevier County Campus, the Maples Institute for Culinary Arts includes a 2,100 square-foot kitchen, bake shop, demonstration kitchen and dining rooms where students test their skills at catered events each semester. The Maples Institute was the first culinary institution in Tennessee to receive accreditation with the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation Accrediting Commission.

 

The Maples Institute for Culinary Arts, accredited by the American Culinary Federation, prepares students for successful careers in food preparation, cooking, baking, kitchen or restaurant management and non-commercial food service. Our goal at the Maples Institute for Culinary Arts is to take our students' enthusiasm for cooking and turn it into an art form and then a life-long career. The Maples Institute for Culinary Arts is one of the few American Culinary Federation accredited post-secondary culinary programs in the state of Tennessee.

 The Maples Institute of Culinary Arts is named for the late Rel and Wilma Maples. Mr. Maples began a restaurant early in the history of the Great Smoky Mountains, initially to serve Civilian Conservation Corps workers. Ms. Maples is one of the college's most generous donors and frequently attended culinary events at the college.