Enjoy a restaurant-quality dining experience in your own home. Featured on Food Network! Cooking Lessons     Private lessons, for individuals or small groups

How Does Chef JoAnna do cooking lessons?

Chef JoAnna has a friendly, informal teaching style that puts you at ease. She will show you how to coax the best results from your own home equipment and appliances, since lessons are taught in your own home. You can feel comfortable knowing you'll be able to reproduce the same fantastic results later on. Because Chef JoAnna's career as a personal chef puts her in a new kitchen every week, she can share her experiences and show you how to work around the obstacles of producing restaurant-quality food in a non-restaurant kitchen.

Who decides what recipes are made, and what's on the lesson plan?

You do! You choose what you learn how to make, and pick a class time for when it fits best into your schedule. There's no waiting around for "vegetarian week" or "pastry week". Allergic to shellfish? Fine, we won't cook any! Classes are as basic or as sophisticated as you choose. Most importantly, I offer you tips on how to do all those little touches that make a big difference in flavor, texture and presentation.

Why not go with one of those big, fancy cooking school outfits ?

• You can pick your classmates, or choose to have no classmates at all and opt for private instruction.
  
  
• Private, at-home instruction is less intimidating than going to a "professional" training kitchen. You don't have to be surrounded by stainless steel countertops and industrial-strength mixers to make delicious food!
  
  
• If you're not interested in earning a certificate or a diploma, there's no need to sit through a class that doesn't give you hands-on, specific training.
  
  
• Chef JoAnna has no retail store affiliation, so you're not paying money to listen to a sales pitch for expensive kitchen equipment.

How long do cooking lessons last?

You should allow at least 3 hours for the lesson. Complicated recipes and/or techniques may take longer, ask, the chef for an estimate. Chef JoAnna will arrive 30 minutes early, and will stay until the clean up is complete.

What do private, in-home cooking lessons cost?

Costs vary depending on what you want to make and how many people will be attending the lesson. Fees always include shopping, all the preparation, hands-on lessons (including use of specialized tools such as a Crème Brûlée torch, mandoline or other such things), recipe booklets with a cooking terms glossary... and of course, clean up. 5 or more participants requires that I hire an assistant.

A gift of gourmet food is always in good taste, but to be unique, give a gift of Personalized Cooking Lessons!

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Theme Parties

Let your imagination run wild -- if you have an idea for something not listed, Chef JoAnna to discuss.

Choose a theme: Chef JoAnna creates menus based on your theme. The possibilities are endless: movies, music, travel, hobbies, hometowns, a favorite sports team, a favorite food, wine pairings... and so on.

Hands-on Cooking Lessons: Basic cooking terms and techniques are covered before the meal. Chef JoAnna demonstrates making all the food the guests eat, and everyone gets to make their own dessert.

In-Home Sales Parties: Chef JoAnna will help you demonstrate your products as well as cater the event. Tupperware, Southern Living, Home & Garden, Avon, At Home America etc...