Private cooking classes are very popular in Los Angeles where many people have a great kitchen and would like to entertain more at home. The one on one attention you receive with Chef Amanda is incomparable to being in a group at a nearby cooking school. Private cooking classes can take place at your home at your convenience.

Having cooked professionally for over twenty five years, Amanda has many tricks to help you create any meal from the most basic every day foods to an elegant dinner for ten all taught within these private cooking classes. No experience is required for a private class in your home as Amanda will guide you through all techniques from knife skills to how to tell when fish is fresh. Fancy kitchens are also unnecessary as all you need is an apron, knife and cutting board. With a background of teaching cooking in NYC kitchens for over twelve years Amanda can accommodate any space you have even with a group. The menu is planned accordingly for everyone to have a chance to participate in the meal.

The way it works is Amanda will send you a list of menus to choose from. Her private cooking classes include an extensive repertoire that consists of recipes from Morocco to Tuscany. You can choose up to five dishes that comprise a complete menu. The shopping list will be sent to you a week before the class or if you prefer Amanda can shop for you for a nominal fee. The list of ingredients for your private class will also include any equipment you will need. Most of the time we use what is in the average home kitchen, if something is unusual Amanda will bring it with her along with tips on where to buy the item. For example she shops at Surfas in Culver City for many of her favorite pans and gadgets. These private cooking classes offer you everything youw will need to know.

Amanda will arrive about forty five minutes before the private cooking lessons begin, at which point the guests and will set up the kitchen with a station for each recipe, all the ingredients will be arranged according to the recipe and your friends simply show up with their cutting board, knife and apron. They will be briefed on the menu and a short demo will be done for important cooking techniques. Everyone washes their hands and decides where to apply their skills, or for some, try something completely new like baking a cake for the first time.

Many students take private cooking classes as part of a series where we expand on cooking techniques and the student becomes a confident chef after a number of classes. These pricate cooking classes can be arranged for anywhere from one to fifteen people and often are part of a cooking club or monthly group activity.

The best part of a private cooking class is you can be in your own home with friends or family and can cook whatever you decide. All levels of experience are welcome and there is always a feast to enjoy at the end. You will go home with your own set of recipe cards, a satisfied feeling and new confidence in your cooking abilities.

Gift certificates are also available for the any occasion such as weddings, baby showers, anniversaries or birthdays.

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Amanda Cushman is a culinary educator who has cooked professionally for over twenty-five years. She teaches privately for groups of two to twenty students in their home as well as in venues around Los Angeles such as Sur La Table, The Magical Kitchen, Williams-Sonoma and Chefmakers.
Amanda also teaches hands on and demonstration cooking classes that are part of a Wellness program at Guess Jeans Inc. She has recently worked with Google, Yahoo, Fitness Magazine and Toyota on team building and cooking events.

Her career in food began in Manhattan where she worked with some of the top NYC caterers: Glorious Food, Panhandlers and Martha Stewart catering. She became the lead chef for Panhandlers Catering where she cooked for parties of twenty to three hundred people. She then began testing recipes at Ladies Home Journal where she worked for over two years. Her next stint was at Food and Wine Magazine where developed her skills in recipe development. This led to her contributing to Cooking Light, Self, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. She was a private chef for the C.E.O. of American Express and the Editor of GQ magazine for many years before teaching at The Institute of Culinary Education formerly known as Peter Kump's New York Cooking School. While in NYC she also taught at the Natural Gourmet Cooking School and The New School-Culinary Arts Program.

Chef Cushman moved to Miami Beach in the mid nineties where she was featured on Deco Drive for her private hands-on cooking classes. She had the cover story in the food section of the Miami Herald for these classes as well as her private classes being featured as the best new trend in Florida Trend Magazine. She has developed hundreds of recipes for cookbooks as well as food magazines and web sites. Some of her accounts have been Foodfit.com , Minutemeals.com and the Time/Life Fitness Series.

Chef Cushman has done a number of television appearances in the last three years. New York One, Before and Afternoon Movie, Ten Years Younger and Blind Date all have featured her private cooking classes.