What Are You Cooking Up, Chef?

Yann Blanchet, Chef/Director of Dining Services, provides a sneak peek into some of the cuisine that Institute for Advanced Study scholars and staff can expect from the dining team, and discusses how shared meals help to unify the global IAS community.

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.