Improvisational Cooking Class

Get more intuitive in the kitchen and learn to cook without a recipe with this cooking class in NYC!



3 hours Location Brooklyn Class size 1 to 20 guests   $165
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Cooking Experience Gifts
Tired of recipes, meal plans, and last-minute grocery runs? In this hands-on cooking class in Brooklyn, perfect for any level of experience, you’ll learn how to adapt the systems and strategies of the restaurant world to your home kitchen, so dinner works around your real life.
Instead of starting with a recipe and shopping for ingredients, you’ll flip the process and start with what you already have. You’ll learn to use those ingredients, in whatever amounts, time, and skill level you have, to make many different dishes instead of one set meal.
You’ll explore why meal planning often falls short, create starting points to help you improvise meals, and learn a simple three-step approach to building a dish. You’ll practice making your own pasta and pan sauces, find sustainable ways to cut food waste, and discover how to use your favorite recipes more effectively. You’ll also build a personalized pantry that supports easy, flexible cooking!
This beginner-friendly workshop is perfect if you're looking to improve your skills in the kitchen with easy recipes or taking the first steps to learn how to cook improvisationally. You’ll leave with the skills to cook off the cuff, waste less food, time, and energy, and raise your standards for everyday meals!
Please note:
Each class works with a unique and large set of ingredients that meets most dietary preferences. We can accommodate most food allergies; please let us know prior.
What you'll get
Learn how to be more intuitive in the kitchen!
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly!
What to bring
All materials provided.
Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or bachelorette party.

This experience would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mom, Xmas gift or gift for couples.

Location

Brooklyn, NY

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Purple Kale Kitchenworks
Purple Kale Kitchenworks

female Women-owned

Hi, I’m Ronna (“rah-na”).
I am the founder and chef of Purple Kale Kitchenworks, a small but mighty cooking school near the Brooklyn waterfront. I am also the author of The Nimble Cook. I have been cooking and writing about food for thirty years.
As a young cook, I worked summers abroad in restaurants and pastry shops, in France, Greece, Spain, and Sicily. My recipes and writings have been featured in publications, such as The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Saveur, the Washington Post, The Art of Eating, Martha Stewart, and more. Before starting my own cooking school, I mentored cooks at the helm of some beloved, greenmarket-driven New York City restaurants.
And then I had kids.
I Learned More Cooking for My Daughter Than I Ever Did as a Chef, guest contributor, Food52
My reckoning was clear and humbling, but it at least pushed me in new directions. I learned to adapt familiar restaurant practices to the home, and as I did this, I helped friends become more efficient, organized, less wasteful and more confident in their kitchens. In the process, I discovered I loved to teach. In 2010, I decided to step away from restaurant work to focus my energies on codifying and fine-tuning Purple Kale Kitchenworks’ curriculum. My “nimble” way of cooking every day became the foundation of all my classes, and eventually the content for my first cookbook.
These days, you’ll find me teaching at my studio or to students online, testing dishes for new catering menus, brushing up on food policy, or browsing seed catalogues. I’m never far from my salvaged Garland stove, a well-stained coffee mug, or my faithful sharpening steel.

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