Cooking Classes in Toronto

Taking a cooking class is no longer an activity that occurs in a high school home economics room after hours. Instead, a number of culinary schools in Toronto exist with the sole purpose of teaching the culinary arts to novices and more advanced chefs alike by providing hands-on classes focused either on a particular mechanical skill or a particular type of food.

Great Cooks

Great Cooks, located in downtown Toronto, offers a number of classes that change each month. For example, in November 2009 Great Cooks offered a course in Healthy Holiday Baking. The course was taught by author, nutritionist and chef Ricki Heller, RHN, Ph.D., and featured recipes such as Decadent Chocolate Paté and Sweet Potato/Cranberry Muffins. In September 2009, Great Cooks offered a series of three classes on Italian cooking and featured a chef from one of Toronto's top Italian restaurants, Trattoria Nervosa.

For those who would rather not leave their significant other behind and venture out to a cooking class, Great Cooks offers classes for couples called "Just the Two of Us." Couples together learn how to prepare a romantic dinner for two and have a great evening out while they're at it.

Great Cooks on Eight
401 Bay Street
Simpson Tower, 8th Floor
Toronto, ON, Canada M5H 2Y4
[phone]
greatcooks.ca/index.html

Pepper Mill Kitchen

Pepper Mill Kitchen, also in downtown Toronto, offers such classes as Moroccan Night and Appetizers and Wine. Moroccan Night is a 2.5-hour class focusing on the creation of the tajine, a Moroccan stew that the Pepper Mill Kitchen describes as "exotic" and "beautiful." The Appetizer and Wine Night, on the other hand, teaches students how to prepare a number of different appetizers from scratch.

Pepper Mill Kitchen
87 Avenue Road, Box 332
Hazelton Lanes Mall
Toronto, ON, Canada M5R 3R9
[phone]
peppermill.biz/

Dish Cooking Studio

Dish Cooking Studio on Dupont Street offers an even greater number of classes, including a Boot Camp Knife Class and Soups and Stocks. "Boot Camp" is the term Dish Cooking Studio uses for classes that are designed for people with little to no experience cooking, and the knife class not only teaches students how to use (their own) knives but also provides them with the opportunity to consume the fruits of their labor, which include lamb chaps, seared scallops and Chicken Kiev. The Soups and Stocks class teaches students how to prepare the most common soup stocks so they can make healthy, delicious soups at home.

Dish Cooking Studio
390 Dupont St.
Toronto, ON, Canada M5R 1V9
[phone]
dishcookingstudio.com/zf/public/site/

References

• Great Cooks
• Pepper Mill Kitchen
• Dish Cooking Studio