Cooking Class at Kosher Center Culinary Arts
Item Number: 300
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Description
Calling all home cooks, culinary enthusiasts, and everyone else who loves food and cooking…Engage your passion through CKCA’s recreational cooking class program.
Our hands-on classes are taught by professionally trained chefs and offer the perfect opportunity for you to explore your culinary curiosity.
We offer single-session and short series in all different subjects related to cooking, baking, cake decoration, fruit & vegetable garnishing, and more. These classes are a perfect fit for those interested in learning professional level skills and techniques but who don’t have the time to commit to one of our professional training programs.
Our classes are open to men and women ages 12 and up. We also periodically offer classes specifically for children and teens. Classes are offered days, nights, weekends, and motzei shabbos in the winter.
Couples will love our Date Night series, which we now offer year-round.
The schedule changes every season and we are constantly adding new classes but if there’s something that you’re interested in learning about that we don’t currently offer, let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate you in the future.
Classes have included:
Mother and Daughter Bake
Sophisticated cupcakes
Primal Series: Steak Night
Date Night: Couples Competition
Artisan Bread Baking
Special Instructions
Winner must arrange class to take with the school direct.
If gift certificate needs to be mailed, winner is responsible for all shipping fees including tracking and insurance
Unless otherwise noted, all of our recreational classes are open to men, women, and mature adolescents ages 12 and up.
Advanced registration and payment is required for all classes.
Cancellation Policy
A full refund will be granted for any cancellation made one week or more in advance of the class. Credit towards another class will be given for cancellations made less than a week but more than 48 hours in advance. A cancellation made less than 48 hours in advance or a no show will result in a loss of class fee.
CKCA reserves the right to cancel classes at its discretion. In the event of a cancellation, students will be given a choice between a full refund and class credit.
Cooking Class Etiquette
Cell phones are not permitted in class. If you have to make or pickup a call, please excuse yourself and exit the classroom to do so.
Babies and small children are not permitted in our kitchen while class is in session.
The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts is committed to adhering to the highest standard of kashrus possible at all times.
As a cooking school that does not regularly serve food to the public we are not required to hold certification or a Hashgacha from a third party kashrus supervision agency as is a restaurant or any other traditional food service or production operation. Nonetheless, we have developed a set of standards to which we adhere at all times. They are as follows:
- All cooking is bishul yisroel
- All meat is chassidishe shechita
- All purchased baked goods are pas yisroel
- All fresh produce is thoroughly washed and checked by a Shomer Shabbos member of our staff
- Dairy, when used off site (our facility is strictly fleishig) is chalav yisroel
- All Wine is mevushal
- Packaged goods must bear a reliable hechsher
- Prepared food from other vendors or from one’s home is not permitted in our facility
- And of course, we are closed every Shabbos and Yom Tov.
Those who attend classes at CKCA are actively involved in preparing their own food under our guidance and supervision. The entire cooking process is “transparent”; that is, students are fully aware of what is being prepared, how it is being prepared and what ingredients are being used.
In addition, the school is located upstairs from – and associated with – a Lubavitcher-owned cookware store and the owner is actively involved and committed to maintaining the highest level of kashrus possible.
When contracted to cook food at our facility that is to be consumed off premises (tastings, catered affairs, holiday meals, classes, etc.), the client is given the option to hire a certified mashgiach to supervise the purchasing, washing/checking and production.
Any questions about kashrus may be directed to CKCA Kashrus Instructor Rabbi Zushe Blech at blechz@gmail.com.
About Rabbi Blech
Rabbi Zushe Blech is widely considered one of the world’s leading experts in modern Kosher food production and technology, serving for over twenty years in administrative and field positions relating to all aspects of Kosher certification. He served for fourteen years as a regional director for the Kashrus division of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (the “OU”), and has since served as a technical and Halachic consultant to virtually all of the major Kashrus certifying agencies worldwide. He has written and lectured throughout the world on the entire gamut of Kosher issues, and has consulted with a number of major food manufacturers to educate them on Kosher issues, obtaining certification, and resolving Kashrus issues. He is a foremost authority on the integration of all aspects of modern food technology with Kosher requirements, including those relating to such cutting-edge issues as biotechnology and enzymology. Rabbi Blech is the author of the encyclopedic work Kosher Food Production (Blackwell) the definitive work on Kosher certification and his articles on Kosher certification have been published by a variety of Kashrus organizations worldwide.
Outside food and dairy beverages are strictly prohibited at all times, no exceptions