The story of the Culinary Arts Club began after practice one evening, when a bunch of Laurier Football players joked about the idea of starting a “Cake Eating Club”. The joke continued as “Culinary Arts Club” was ratified as Laurier’s newest campus club in November of 2001. Within the first day of sign ups, the club acquired over 100 new members and by the end of the school year the club received the monumental title of Laurier’s “Best New Club”.

The club received television coverage for various events, and was recognized for their charitable work by being recruited to Opportunities 2000, a network of 150 agencies and businesses that share their resources to alleviate the poverty situation in the local community. Most remarkable was the fact that after having been an official club for only a few months, the club received national recognition by being listed in the “What’s Hot” section of the Maclean’s Magazine University Edition in 2002, 2003 AND 2004, as well as the nationally distributed Active Women's magazine.

The club members meet regularly to participate in a number of activities including cooking competitions, eating competitions, wine tasting tours, and evenings of Chef guest speakers with interactive cooking workshops. In the past the club has also participated in various events such as Culinary Keg parties, guest speaker nights on eating disorders, and feeding the homeless field trips.

The club also holds an annual Iron Chef Competition to raise money for the Kidney Foundation, and even had it’s own intramural baseball team, “The All You Can Eat Buffet”.