Do you remember the first thing you made in the kitchen when you were a child? For me, it was boxed macaroni and cheese. It didn’t take me long to get familiar with the kitchen and cook things. I even liked to get creative and make up my own recipes using left overs and whatever I could find in the cabinets.
I’m fortunate that my husband knows how to cook too.
My teenagers can fend for themselves. Our almost 17 year old son cooks more than our 19 year old daughter. She either uses foods she can warm in the microwave, buys something to eat (if she’s too lazy to cook) or eats cereal.
I think its important that children and teenagers be comfortable in the kitchen and be able to make simple meals. Sadly, a lot of parents are simply too busy to teach their kids how to cook in the kitchen. Thank goodness for places like the Young Chefs Academy.
Young Chefs Academy is the country’s leading kids cooking school with more than 20 locations open or in development throughout ten states. Young Chefs Academy has captivated the creativity of children across U.S. communities for more than a decade.
Children enrolled in Young Chefs Academy will have the opportunity to participate in educational classes in a state-of-the-art kitchen. The curriculum at Young Chefs Academy is updated regularly with fresh monthly themes and exciting new programs with a strong focus on building culinary skills. Events and classes are fueled by the mantra, “mise en place,” which translates to “everything in its place.”
Tailored for young children discovering the kitchen in a KinderCooks® class, children in the Junior Chefs program and older students mastering concepts in the Senior Chefs group, there is a place and a lesson for every student to explore and grow through cooking. Each location also hosts birthdays and events for groups just looking for a taste of the Young Chefs experience.
Young Chefs Academy students can also benefit from opportunities connected to influential media partners, such as Food Network Magazine. Young Chefs Academy has hosted nationally recognized programs in conjunction with these and other partners, reaching both kids and adults across the nation with cooking tips and events to bring families together in the kitchen.
Founded in 2003, Young Chefs Academy is one part culinary adventure, one part culinary education, and it’s all for children. Here, learning invaluable life lessons (shhh… they don’t even know it’s happening) occurs through a cooking curriculum that evokes curiosity, which provides children a pathway to personal discovery and creativity, all in a warm, welcoming and inspiring movement.
Young Chefs Academy has classes for children from ages 3 – 18 years old.
Young Chefs Academy currently has schools in 10 states – California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Texas and Virginia. Locations in Idaho and Arkansas coming soon. You can see all the current locations here.
For more information visit YoungChefsAcademy.com. You can also check them out on social media – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Young Chefs Academy would like to give a lucky reader a FREE class. Please check out the current locations (here) to make sure there is a location near you before entering.
This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only and will end on September 30, 2016. The winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator from all eligible entries. The winner will be notified via email and will have three days to reply or a new winner will be chosen in their place.
To enter please comment on this post and tell me why you would like to win this prize?
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Kimberly
*I was not compensated for this post. I posted this for the enjoyment of site readers. The opinions expressed are my own and not influenced in any way.
Leigh Anne Borders says
I would love to take my son to one of these classes. He would enjoy it.
Lori says
Super cool giveaway!
Amanda S. says
I’d love to take my daughter to a cooking class! She’s 5 and loves to help me in the kitchen.
Kristen says
I always think EXPERIENCES can be more fun than THINGS, so I feel like this would make a wonderful gift for my goddaughter, who already loves to be in the kitchen with Daddy….I’m sure she’d love it!