Tailor your classes to teach what you know, on your comfort level
Personalized and Engaging Cooking Experiences
For Kids
Cooking is more than just a life skill; it’s a pathway to creativity, discovery, and valuable life lessons. Through cooking classes, children can not only learn to prepare and enjoy different types of foods but also:
- Develop essential math and chemistry knowledge.
- Learn to read and follow directions effectively.
- Hone organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Cultivate common sense in practical scenarios.
- Instills confidence
Additionally, cooking can encourage better eating habits and foster a sense of contribution at home. It’s a rewarding activity that’s exciting, challenging, and ultimately delicious.
For Adults
Cooking classes offer a healthy alternative to reliance on ordering in or dining out. By teaching adults to prepare nutritious meals in a supportive environment, this program can:
- Promote healthier eating habits for themselves and their families.
- Build culinary confidence.
- Hone organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Offer a fun, social, and interactive experience.
For the Health Conscious
Dietitians can leverage this program to expand their services by teaching clients to prepare nutritious meals to combat obesity and other health issues through hands-on cooking experiences. This program enables you to:
- Understand completely how to plan and conduct a hands-on cooking class
- Reinforce nutrition education with practical application.
- Build confidence in clients to prepare wholesome meals at home.
- Offer a unique, interactive way to promote health and wellness.
Make Your Passion Profitable!
By following these simple guidelines, you’ll be able to offer fun, engaging, and educational cooking classes in your home, helping kids and adults alike develop useful life skills while enjoying delicious food. Start your journey today and turn your home kitchen into a thriving, lucrative culinary classroom!
What You’ll Receive in the Program
You’ll have everything you need to launch your home-based cooking class program, including:
- Administrative Tools
- Predesigned logo with a place for your name.
- Registration forms and private class chart.
- Payment guidelines and procedures.
- Liability release form including photo release forms for social media
- Legal considerations for you to research
- Guidelines to create a simple website that will make you easier to find. The third tier includes a website template.
- A customizable menu and pricing information sheet
- Curriculum Support
- Menu suggestions you can tailor to various skill levels and dietary preferences.
- Kitchen Safety “Cheat Sheet” for your class introduction
- Menus and recipes to inspire your classes.
- Instructional videos to guide your teaching process.
- Set up photos and videos so you can see how station set-ups works best.
- My certification via a 30 minute zoom interview to confirm that you understand the concept and are clear on how to execute the guidelines of the program.
- Scalable Opportunities
- Guidance on expanding your program to accommodate larger groups.
- Insights into starting a brick-and-mortar cooking school, should you wish to grow further.
- Personal support via Zoom from Polly Talbott, CCP, long time owner and Director of A la Carte Culinary Services, Ltd. and current owner of Polly Talbott’s A la Carte. Amounts vary with packages.
A Passion for Cooking
Meet Polly Talbott
About Polly Talbott
Polly Talbott, CCP, started out baking with her grandmother as a child and continued this passion with a degree in Home Economics from Otterbein College. She has dedicated her life to the culinary arts through restaurant management, research and development, and food styling for photography in the New York Tri-State area; in 1999 she founded A la Carte Culinary Services in Lynbrook, New York. For 22 years, she owned and directed the successful cooking school, teaching people of all ages. Polly now enjoys teaching private classes and pursuing her passions, including ballroom dancing, biking, traveling, and spending time with her grandchildren, Leo and Emilia, who are budding chefs themselves.
