Le Cordon Bleu is the world's largest hospitality education institution, with 35 schools on five continents serving 20,000 students annually. Its primary education focus is on hospitality management and the culinary arts. In the United States, there are 17 associated Cordon Bleu schools, plus an online school.
The origin of the school comes from L'Ordre des Chevaliers du Saint Esprit, an elite group of French knight

Knight

A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....

s that was created in 1578.