The New School of Cooking has cooking classes to serve everyone, from beginners through advanced cooks.
Our experienced chef instructors and state of the art kitchen classroom, combined with individual attention and hands-on participation are a recipe for success. When researching cooking schools and culinary arts programs in California it's easy to be overwhelmed by choice. The New School of Cooking is celebrating our tenth anniversary this year and is the best cooking school for learning proper technique with local, seasonal ingredients.
This website gives an overview of The New School of Cooking and allows you to register for classes, buy gift certificates and do a variety of other activities. Click any of the topics on the navigation menu to the left for more information. If you want to download a copy of our current catalogue to print out, that is also available as a pdf on the left. If you are unable to view the pdf, you will need to install the Adobe Acrobat plugin.
All our cooking classes focus on proper technique and seasonal ingredients. We offer part time professional cooking and baking programs throughout the year, which give students the training they need to become professional chefs or to cook like professionals. The professional series are designed to fit within the schedules of working people and meet once a week for four hours.
We have a huge variety of recreational classes including ethnic classes, skill-building classes and ingredient-based classes. All classes are hands-on, so students truly learn through participation. We have daytime classes, evening classes and weekend classes to suit every schedule, and most recreational classes run for three hours.
We are located one block south of Venice Boulevard at 8690 Washington Boulevard in Culver City, across from the historic Helms Bakery building. We are seconds away from the Robertson and Fairfax/Washington exits off the Santa Monica Freeway and have plenty of parking.
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