Private Cooking Classes
Can’t find what you are looking for in my class schedule? Interested in a more intimate setting? Celebrating a birthday, wedding shower, or girl’s night out? I offer private, semi-private, and private group classes, either in your home or in a commercial kitchen facility. I tailor the menu to suit any request, including allergy-free diets.
Contact me for pricing, availability,and more information.
Skill-Building Classes
For beginners in the kitchen or those with barriers to healthy eating, I offer a series of skill-building classes to help cooks get started in the kitchen. In each class, I use my friendly teaching style to impart the right skill set for easier cooking, as well as new knowledge of ingredients and cooking techniques, and healthy, simple, yet delicious recipes. I can help anyone feel skilled, happy and confident in the kitchen. I tailor the menu and classes to suit the occasion or the request.
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Cooking Demonstrations & Lectures
My short cooking demonstrations (45 minutes to 1½ hours) are the perfect way to enhance a culinary conference, festival, celebratory event, staff appreciation, farm market day, or staff lunch learning program. I can bring my demonstration to your location, or offer the use of a commercial kitchen facility. Tailoring the menu to suit the occasion, I will demonstrate quick fresh recipes, new techniques, and healthy ingredients with a relaxed and entertaining style.
I can also be engaged as a public speaker on local food, seasonal food, and healthy eating.
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Kids’ Cooking Classes
Cooking Camps for Children Aged 7 to 14
For aspiring chefs and for children who love to cook, my half-day cooking camps are a perfect fit. Filled with seasonal foods, age-appropriate cooking techniques, and fun food-related games, my children’s cooking camps will help your child become more skilled, safe, and confident in the kitchen. In camp, participants will learn how to safely use the stove, how to properly measure and mix for great baking results, and how to make healthy and delicious recipes that bring inspiration and delight to the cook. Older children will also learn basic knife skills. Cooking camps are taught in a commercial kitchen facility at the St Michael’s University-School campus and are taught once or twice a year at one of the following times: Spring Break Camp, Summer Camp (1st week in July), or Winter Camp.
Interested in other types of cooking classes for your child? I offer private and group classes as well.
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Corporate Team Building
Promote active learning in your dynamic employees through my hands-on, interactive cooking classes. The fun never stops as we chop, mix, stir, sautee, and bake our way to a delicious concluding meal.
My team-enhancing cooking classes will:
- Encourage creativity, confidence, and trust among your employees
- Help promote collaboration, multi-tasking, and networking
- Stimulate team-building and fresh ideas
- Reduce the stress of computer-induced isolation
Watch your employees turn into team players as they bond and learn to make delicious food. As a bonus, they will take transferable skills to their home kitchens. I promise a fun, relaxing event that will help rejuvenate and energize your work team!
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“Heidi is a fantastic teacher. Her warm personality made her students at Tsartlip First Nation feel comfortable right away. Her in-depth knowledge of cooking and her ability to assess each individual’s skill level allows her to teach a multi-level cooking class with many menu options. Heidi can explain any recipe in understandable and manageable steps. The group came away with the skills they had been eager to learn. Best of all, Heidi’s food tastes fantastic! Everyone was impressed and wanted her back.”
Jen McMullen, Coordinator,
HomeGrown Project,
LifeCycles Project Society
Tsartlip First Nation
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Booking Policy
To book your private cooking class, cooking demo, team-building class, or other private event, Heidi Fink requires a $200 deposit. $50 of the deposit is non-refundable. The $200 deposit will be counted toward the total cost of the class.
The remainder, which will vary with the event booked, must be paid in full at least 6 weeks prior to the class date.
Cancellation Policy
Fees will be refunded in full (minus the $50 non-refundable deposit) for cancellations made at least one week prior to the class.
For cancellations made less than one week, but more than 48 hours, prior to the class, there will be a 50% refund (calculated after the $50 non-refundable deposit is taken off the fee).
There will be no refund for cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to the class.
“Heidi seems to be able to teach eight different
things at once and yet still answer your questions and offer tastes and smells
of exotica. She will even stop to share
a tip on how to get young kids to eat kale!”
Doreen Sutherland,
High School Art & Home-Ec Teacher
