Seattle Cooking Classes: Class Listings

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	Cooking is the new wave in corporate team-building exercises.
—The New York Times, January 13, 2007

Making potato salad for the Comfort Food: Summer Picnic class, June 2002.


		Team Building The kitchen is a familiar, yet powerful environment for simulating real world challenges; it is the perfect venue for team and group activities. The premise is simple: Using the kitchen as a learning environment, team members (co-workers, clients or any other type of group) work together to create a gourmet meal, then sit down together and enjoy it. Cooking a gourmet meal requires and builds teamwork. Cooking as a team develops service to others, close cooperation, planning skills, good communication, quality performance, leadership, consensus, and attention to detail. For both the uninitiated and the experienced cook, it is a challenge requiring full focus, openness to constructive criticism, constant learning, and most importantly, teamwork. The group will learn to work as a team, set aside normal roles, plan carefully, cooperate closely, ask for and give help as needed, deal with and adjust quickly to mistakes, and follow the strategy, recipes, and instructions. Talents are discovered, as well as respect and appreciation for each other's strengths. Instead of competing against each other, everyone works toward the same goal, creating a warm and fun atmosphere. Groups will have fun while learning the following concepts: Creativity Communication Skills Collaboration Cooperation Commitment Goal Orientation Leadership Learn about our Group Rates.