On Being an IAS Chef

Anne-Renée Rice-Soumeillant, Assistant Sous Chef at the Institute for Advanced Study, explains how cooking at IAS differs from restaurant routine: menus shift daily with what’s seasonal, colorful, and on hand. She also recalls a standout dish—a beet and mushroom Wellington—that let the vegetarian station shine.

Institute Instances is a collection of 1–2 minute video snapshots of scholars, administrators, and visitors to the Institute for Advanced Study answering a question (or two) about their work at IAS. Viewed individually, these clips allow audiences to get to know the people who are, in the words of founding IAS Director Abraham Flexner, "pushing beyond the present limits of human knowledge" through advancements in science and the humanities. Taken together, these "instances" of Institute life are designed to show how everyone can play a role in actualizing discovery, and to celebrate a community devoted to excellence in scholarship.