Being a parent has many challenges. We all want to do is what is best for our children and family. Let The Culinary Dude help alleviate the daily stress and anxiety that goes with the effort of being the best parent that you can be by offering a variety of food related services including; personalized meal delivery service, kids cooking classes and birthday parties, in home cooking classes and kid and parent/child cooking classes just to name a few.

Kids Cooking Classes, Kids Cooking Birthday Parties, Kids Cooking Parties, Kids Cooking Camps, Kids Run Restaurant, Kids vs. Parent Iron Chef Competitions/Parties, Parent & Kid Cooking Classes, Private Cooking for Kids & Adults

We have been teaching both kid and adult cooking classes, running food related programs and services all over California including at Whole Foods Market Los Altos, San Mateo, Sacramento & Napa, ITK (In The Kitchen) Culinary, Sausalito and Relish, Healdsburg as well as Chef's Inc. in Los Angeles. The Culinary Dude's mission is to teach anyone he can get his hands on to cook, focusing on the process rather than the product. "Our goal is to inspire all participants' imaginations in the kitchen as they cook and to encourage their creativity while they are learning a variety of cooking styles, techniques and enjoy themselves doing it". To book a class, event or for upcoming classes in a town near you please click here.

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Personalized Meal Delivery Service

Don't want to cook for your family for a night, a week or a month? Putting the personal in personalized meal delivery service is The Culinary Dude's focus. This service offers meals prepared in our kitchen then delivered to you. We realize that every person or household has different dietary needs, allergies and food preferences. Because of this, we will compose a personalized menu just for you and your family. From vegetarian to carnivore, special diets to the use of Organic Foods, most menus include entrees with a protein, vegetable and a starch (vegetable salad, fruit salad, snacks and desserts upon request). The meals are stored and labeled in dishwasher safe re-useable, Tupperware containers and delivered to your home the same day they are prepared. All meals are prepared fresh, from scratch and are good for up to 7 days, seafood entrees 3-4 days. All we ask is that you wash the used Tupperware prior to pick up. See Sample Menus.

Prices for Meal Delivery Services are based on $32 per hour for services, including 2 hours for menu planning and shopping, plus the cost of groceries. On average, the amount of time to prepare four portions of two different entrees is about 7 hours (the cost and time will vary based on seasonality of food and entree choices).

Adult/Child In-home Classes

Utilizing our degrees in Early Childhood Education and Culinary Arts, The Culinary Dude provides a hands-on, developmental approach to teaching and education in your kitchen. Our focus is on the process rather than the product. Once students have mastered the process of the how's, what's, where's, why's and when's of cooking and recipe comprehension, a focus on the product will naturally follow. Our goal is to create an environment for those people who are interested in furthering their cooking knowledge, who insist that they can't cook or just want to learn something new, by providing them with a comfortable, pressureless atmosphere where there is no right or wrong way, just the student's way. All adult and children classes are interchangeable and 2 to 2 1/2 hours long, pending the menu. If there is something you want to learn that is not listed, feel free to make suggestions. Book a private lesson for an individual, family or large group. See Adult Sample Classes and Kid Sample Classes.

Prices for Private Adult and Child cooking classes are $50 per hour, for 1-4 participants (add $25 per person over 4 people with a maximum of 8 people), plus the cost of supplies, menu planning and shopping for the chosen class.

Prices for Group Events are a flat rate of $450 including instruction, cost of supplies, menu planning and shopping for the chosen class and $25 per person over 10 people with a maximum of 20 people.

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