Cooking Classes

Whether you are a beginner or wish to pursue a career in the culinary arts, we can offer you classes tailored to your specific needs to help you achieve your goals. We offer individual classes, both demonstration and hands on, as well as a number of topics offered as a series of classes.

Want to learn how to cook, improve your skills or expand your culinary horizons? With over 30 years experience as a cooking instructor, John's sessions are both fun and informative. Rather than just present and reproduce recipes, he goes into great detail about the ingredients, cooking techniques and the culinary history of the different cultures that have had an influence on the recipe. Whether you are interested in improving your diet, making mealtime more exciting or pursuing a career in the culinary arts, we can provide you with the skills and knowledge you will need to achieve your goals.

Here are some of the many classes offered. If the class or classes that you may be interested in taking are not listed, or you are looking for more information on a specific class, please contact us.

• Special Diet Cooking - If you are on a restricted diet, learn how to get more enjoyment at meal time
• Fast Food, Fast Life - how to prepare quick and healthy meals for people with little spare time
• Taking Charge of Your Health - learn how to prepare meals that can help you to change how you look and feel
• How To Read Labels - shopping for quality ingredients
• Organics - what does it mean? understanding the NOS rules
• GMOs and Food Irradiation - what are they, should we be concerned
• Knife Skills - everything you could ever want to know about cutlery
• Great Grains - from Amaranth to Teff, experience the mystery of ancient grains
• What To Do With Tofu - a bean curd cuisine primer
• Tofu Too - further variations on one of the world's most versatile foods

We are pleased to offer individual and family cooking instruction, either at our kitchen or in the comfort of your kitchen.

If you've been wanting to change your eating habits and learn more about the benefits of a healthier diet, then this service is ideally suited to you. You can decide what areas of your diet you'd like to focus on, how often to schedule a class, and how long each session should be. (There is a two-hour minimum for classes.)

"The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another." --Charlie Trotter

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