Harvard Cookin' Girl
Bibi Kasrai of Harvard Cookin’ Girl in La Jolla teaches “home cooking from around the world, the way I learned it from real people. First from my grandma, and then from the grandmas of the world.”
Kasrai conducts general group cooking classes, private one-on-one date-night classes, and group events. The price varies, averaging around $65–$150 per person. And in the summer, she offers weeklong “Summer Camp Cooking Classes” for kids ages 5–13 for $250. “Each class has only 20 kids. We’ll have a theme for the week, something like Middle Eastern or tropical foods. The kids make three courses a day: appetizer, entrée, and dessert. Depending on age, they’ll learn different chopping techniques. It’s a bit like a Montessori program, with everybody learning together. On the last day of the week, they bring recipes from home and prepare them.”