Cooking Academy Virtual

Ready to become a Chef?

CLASSES OFFERED

Junior Chefs

Currently combined or summer-only

Junior Chefs - Cooking essentials & confidence in the kitchen

Develop a well-rounded knowledge of kitchen skills and nutrition while learning to prepare accessible, healthy, and delicious meals.

Perfect class for beginner chefs!

Master Chefs

Original Master Chefs - Create delicious & nutritious dishes!

Expand your recipe repertoire with a variety of new dishes packed with yummy flavors and nutritious ingredients.

For confident and independent chefs!

The theme for our May 2022 class will be "Meals from the Movies!" We will be cooking recipes inspired by favorites from the theaters, and sampling a variety of cultures and flavors in fun, unique meals. Join us starting May 3rd in this mixed-skill-level class!

SPRING CLASS SCHEDULE

Levels	Tuesday & Thursday (twice-a-week) May 3rd - 19th
Junior & Master Chef Combined Class $160/Session	4:30-6:30pm
All classes will be conducted virtually via Zoom

Thank you to our partners

Juliana Cooking KidSpirit Virtual Camp Cooking Academy

WHY COOKING ACADEMY?

Creating Confidence &
Independence in the Kitchen

Cooking encourages children’s thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. It also helps them develop skills in counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect. Most importantly, cooking can help develop a child’s confidence and independence in and out of the kitchen!

NEW TO COOKING ACADEMY?

Our Cooking Academy camps are for chefs grades K-12 who are excited about cooking and learning new skills in the kitchen. Whether your child is an independent chef or is still learning, they will be able to prepare a wide variety of delicious meals twice a week for the family. KidSpirit cooking staff will be leading all activities to live through Zoom, helping your chefs build and learn new cooking skills from your own kitchen. Every class, your child will prepare a dish for the family to enjoy together.

Recipes

New Cooking Sessions: Choose from Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday (3-week sessions)

Registration NOW OPEN for February, March, April, May, & June Cooking Camps!

Why Cooking?

Cooking encourages children's thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. It also helps them develop skills in counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect. Most importantly, cooking can help develop a child's confidence and independence in and out of the kitchen!

Our Cooking Academy camps are for chefs grades K-12 who are excited about cooking and learning new skills in the kitchen. Whether your child is an independent chef or is still learning, they will be able to prepare a wide variety of delicious meals twice-a-week for the family. KidSpirit cooking staff will be leading all activities live through Zoom, helping your chefs build and learn new cooking skills from your own kitchen. Every class, your child will prepare a dish for the family to enjoy together.

Junior Chef Camps!

Junior Chefs - Cooking essentials & confidence in the kitchen
- Develop a well rounded knowledge of kitchen skills and nutrition while learning to prepare accessible, healthy and delicious meals.
- Perfect class for beginner chefs!

Master Chef Camps!

International Cuisine - Flavors from around the world!
- Learn about new cultures and gain cooking skills while preparing a wide range of dishes with new and unique flavors from around the world.
- For campers who are more confident in the kitchen on their own!
Root to Table - No meat? No problem!
- Whether you're a devoted vegetarian or trying something new, this class will build your vegetarian cookbook with a wide variety of delicious plant-based meals.
- Awesome class for more confident chefs who would like to cook vegetarian meals!
Original Master Chefs - Create delicious & nutritious dishes!
- Expand your recipe repertoire with a variety of new dishes packed with yummy flavors and nutritious ingredients.
- For confident and independent chefs!

What's the difference?

Some points not applicable during Spring 2022 due to combined groups

Junior Chefs
- Perfect class for beginner chefs!
- 1.5 hour classes twice a week
- Accessible ingredients
- Familiar flavors
- A great stepping stone to Master Chefs!
Master Chefs
- Emerging chefs with knife skills
- Limited supervision required
- 2 hour classes twice a week
- Three themes to choose from
- Wide variety of ingredients
- Familiar and new flavors
- Advanced recipes

Want to make it at Home?

Check Out Our Recipes Page!

Class Preparation

Cooking Academy camps will utilize Google Classroom along with the meeting platform Zoom to create an independent, fun, and positive environment to learn and grow.

What to Bring:

Zoom Device Charger
Fully charged Zoom device
Materials & Ingredients

What to Wear:

Close-toed shoes
Hair pulled back & out of face
Apron (Optional)

Supporting Your Chef in the Kitchen

Depending on how comfortable your chef is in the kitchen, you may need to provide them with some support. We do our best to choose recipes that will allow families to be as hands-off as possible, but it may be necessary to help them out during the class.

Here are some tips to help chefs be more independent during cooking class:

Cook with your chef outside of class to help familiarize them with your kitchen
Print recipes (if possible) and review before class
Review any unfamiliar ingredients and/or supplies
Help your chef gather and consolidate the materials and ingredients before class
Grocery shop with your chef so they know what ingredients they have available