Cooking Classes are popping up all over Los Angeles these days.  Not only are there a number of bona fide cooking schools to choose from, popular restaurants are also starting to offer their own classes to get in on the action.  But “more” doesn’t always mean “better”.  How can you find the best cooking classes in Los Angeles?  First, look at the website.  You can tell a lot about any business by looking at their site design and how they describe themselves.  If the website is unattractive, or the pitch is hokey or poorly written, chances are that the business reflects those shortcomings.

Next, a cooking school is only as good as its chef instructors.  The New School of Cooking has the highest standards in Los Angeles and understands the importance of teaching credentials combined with culinary expertise.  Each instructor at the New School of Cooking has a minimum of eight years teaching experience.

There are several other factors that determine the quality of cooking classes. Los Angeles has restaurants representing almost every ethnicity on the globe, so it’s worth looking for schools that teach a wide variety of ethnic classes.  The New School of Cooking offers cooking on every major, and many minor ethnic subjects.  Students can learn how to make Thai, Japanese, Italian, Indian, French, Cuban, Mexican and Vietnamese foods throughout the year, and the school offers classes in other ethnicities as well.

Cooking classes in Los Angeles should also reflect the bounty of produce grown locally, and no other cooking school in Los Angeles has a staff who shops for ingredients at the multiple farmers markets in the area.  Finally, in order to understand how to cook, it’s important that students in cooking classes get as much opportunity to participate as possible.  Students at the New School of Cooking work in small groups in a state-of-the-art kitchen in order to master the techniques and art of cooking.