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Small classes, real kitchens

Learn technique. The recipes follow.

Knife work, fermentation and pastry, taught slowly enough to actually stick.

5,773+students4.8across 441 reviews14countries

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Baking

Pâtisserie: Laminated Doughs

The advanced baking track: recorded lessons, a live Q&A session each week, and a final assessment.

Knife Skills, Properly

fundamentals from first principles — short video lessons, notes you can download, and a check at the end of each module.

$49$7837% off

4.9(128)

Baking

Sourdough Without the Mystique

A beginner run through baking, built to be rewatched: lessons, worked examples, and an end-of-course assessment.

Regional Italian Pasta

Practical cuisine for people who learn by doing. Assignments after every section, with feedback rather than a score.

$99$15837% off

5.0(39)

How the kitchen runs

You cook every session

No demonstrations you watch from a stool. Your bench, your mistakes.

Ingredients included

Everything is prepped and waiting. Turn up with an apron.

Recipes after, not before

You get the written method once your hands already know it.

Who teaches

Elena Rossi

Head Chef Instructor

Sixteen years in restaurant kitchens; teaches technique before recipes.

Tomas Léger

Pastry

Trained in Lyon. Believes lamination is a lesson in patience.

From the benches

“I stopped following recipes after week three. That was the whole point, apparently.”

Hannah S.

Home cook

“My pastry section runs on what I learned here. The lamination module alone paid for itself.”

Marcus K.

Café owner

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Six benches. They go quickly.

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