Private, Customized Cooking Classes
Cooking classes personalized to you, with an focus on strong technique, improvisation, and zero waste.
Custom Cooking Classes for all skill levels, ages, and learning styles
Create your own cooking class. Take home your own cooking kit.
Learn in our Brooklyn kitchen studio or in your home.
• First-rate, customized, hands-on culinary instruction for individuals, couples, families, kids, and small groups.
• Tailored to your interests and tastes, without generic themes or set menus.
• Using excellent, seasonal ingredients in tandem with strong technique.
• Prioritizing efficient, creative, resourceful strategies, guided by the The Nimble Cook.
• Designed to teach lasting, transferable skills.
• Leaving you with all the food you cooked in class!
How do custom cooking classes work?
Reach out to schedule your class (see form, below). Once you are on our calendar, we’ll begin planning class details.
Gather a partner or some friends. Custom classes are for 1 and up to 8 people. All ages welcome. (For larger classes, see Chefs for a Day.)
Select one of our sample classes or let us build an entirely new class just for you. We’ll have you fill out our Custom Class Questionnaire, so we know what seasonal ingredients you want to work with and what techniques you want to review. This will also tell us more about your cooking interests, challenges, and aspirations.
Review our proposal for your class.
Come to class ready to roll up your sleeves.
Leave with loaded bags! We encourage you to take home all the food not eaten in class. This is often enough prepared ingredients for several meals.
Stay in touch. We are a quick, direct email away to answer additional questions, once you are home.
Fees
Fees include consultation, customized recipes and menus, food shopping, cost of ingredients (including any extra food to take home), and 4 hours of content-rich instruction. All classes are created and taught by chef/owner/author Ronna Welsh and taught at the Purple Kale Kitchenworks Studio in Brooklyn, NY. In-home classes are a great option, too, with an additional travel charge.
Prices listed are per class, not per student. We offer both single classes and class packages.
Single Custom Class
4-hours. We run shorter classes for kids and teens, as appropriate, or when classes are part of a series (below).
1 to 2 students: $625 per class
3 to 4 students: $695 per class
5 to 8 students: $875 per class
Custom Class Package
2 or more custom classes, approx 2 1/2 hrs. each. More than one class must be scheduled at one time.
Great for deep dives into basic techniques and for developing a full roster of skills and strategies.
1 to 2 students: $385 per class
3 to 4 students: $500 per class
5 to 8 students: $675 per class