Young Chefs of Seattle is a cooking camp for middle and high school aged children located in the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle. Founded by Monica Hinckley, it has been in operation since 2002.  Camps are Monday through Friday, from 9:00am – 3:00pm, and the occasional weekend camp during the school year.

There are two sessions to choose from during the summer camps: Cooking 101, and Ethnic Cuisine. Both are week-long camps that end with a dinner party for parents, served by the campers, and they all go home with their own personalized cookbook. In addition to the summer months, we also offer some weekend sessions over the Veterans Day Holiday: Thanksgiving Desserts, Mid-Winter Break: Mother’s Day Brunch, and Spring Break: Father’s Day Bar-B-Que.

Cooking 101 offers instruction in the basics: breakfast, lunch, dinner and sweets, while Ethnic Cuisine focuses on different regions of the world with a field trip to Uwajimaya on the last day. All of our classes are completely hands-on. Every young chef has an opportunity to prepare every recipe. Chefs work in groups of 2-3, rotating through 3 cooking stations per day. All chefs must complete Cooking 101 to be qualified to join the Ethnic Cuisine classes.

In addition to preparation and cooking skills, campers learn:

‹ how to read and follow recipes,
‹ the fine art of creating accurate grocery lists,
‹ now to decipher nutritional and pricing labels to be a savvy shoppers
‹ expert knife skills,
‹ culinary terminology, and
‹ proper plating and serving etiquette.

If you do not live in the Seattle area, you are welcome to explore this site to find recipes that are written and designed with kids in mind so that they can cook independent of you and will no longer say, “Mom! I’m hungry.”

Young Chefs Of Seattle ®
318 NE 76th Street • Seattle WA 98115 •  206-523-2396

http://www.youngchefsofseattle.net          youngchefsofseattle@mail.com

© All Rights Reserved by Monica Hinckley 2002