Young Chefs Academy

What are we?

We're a real cooking school for children between the ages of 3 to 93. We provide a unique learning opportunity for your child to develop a life skill that they will use every day or possibly even for a future career in the food industry.

What do we do?

We teach children a very important and useful life skill- how to cook.

Our Young Chefs learn valuable culinary skills and techniques that they will use for the rest of their lives. We all have such demanding schedules these days with work, school and sports activities, it's difficult to pass on to our children these skills: how to cook properly, safely and make delicious and nutritious meals.

In addition, our Young Chefs use their math, reading/comprehension and communications skills in cooking classes.

How do we do this?

Our students come once a week to cooking class. They learn the basics of cooking while they have hands-on participation in the preparation of real recipes.

They taste the food they made, and discuss each recipe at the end of class. The recipes change every week (each month's recipes will be posted in the "Class Schedule" section of the website), so children are always learning about a new dish, ingredient or technique.

They will become more adventurous about food as they learn food history, proper nutrition, how recipes can be modified to suit different tastes and dietary concerns, food safety and good sanitation practices. In addition to the benefits your child receives from cooking classes, your family dynamics will benefit as well, as you spend more quality time together with your children preparing meals.

The Young Chefs Academy is at 2955 Cochran St. in the Target shopping center. For more information, call (805) 581-FOOD or visit www.YoungChefsAcademy.com.