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KIDS COOKING CAMP – JULY 28 THRU 31
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
$420.00
This is a week where people ages 8 to 12 get to learn a lot about cooking by making lots of great food! Each day we’ll have a new cooking subject to learn about. Come for a great hands-on cooking experience and learn a new Menu every day! Our lessons are: MONDAY – Breakfast Beauties: Sheet Pan Breakfast; Angel Food Fr , ...
KIDS COOKING CAMP CONTINUES – JULY 28
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
$420.00
This is a week where people ages 8 to 12 get to learn a lot about cooking by making lots of great food! Each day we’ll have a new cooking subject to learn about. Come for a great hands-on cooking experience and learn a new Menu every day! Our lessons are: MONDAY – Breakfast Beauties: Sheet Pan Breakfast; Angel Food Fr , ...
ROMAN HOLIDAY
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$105.00
This class of Italian specialties is focused on the famous dishes originating in Rome & much loved by the world for centuries. Roman foods are made with local ingredients prepared in simple but dynamic forms. Come learn to make from scratch what tourists go & pay a lot of money for! Our lesson will be: Homemade , ...
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KIDS COOKING CAMP CONTINUES – JULY 29
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
$420.00
This is a week where people ages 8 to 12 get to learn a lot about cooking by making lots of great food! Each day we’ll have a new cooking subject to learn about. Come for a great hands-on cooking experience and learn a new Menu every day! TUESDAY – FINGER LICKIN’ FOODS: Flatbread with Grilled Chicken, Bacon & Chee , ...
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$105.00
Immerse yourself in the cuisine of this rich culinary city! Parisian foods are some of the best known and most loved ones with culinary traditions that go back centuries. Join us to learn about classic Parisian cuisine with this menu. Our lesson is Pinot-Salted Olive Tapenade with Seasoned Bread Bites; French Onion Ski , ...
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KIDS COOKING CAMP CONTINUES – JULY 30
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
$420.00
This is a week where people ages 8 to 12 get to learn a lot about cooking by making lots of great food! Each day we’ll have a new cooking subject to learn about. Come for a great hands-on cooking experience and learn a new Menu every day! WEDNESDAY – ITALIAN FAVES: Homemade Spaghetti; Homemade Meatballs; Ricotta Panca , ...
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KIDS COOKING CAMP CONTINUES – JULY 31
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
$420.00
This is a week where people ages 8 to 12 get to learn a lot about cooking by making lots of great food! Each day we’ll have a new cooking subject to learn about. Come for a great hands-on cooking experience and learn a new Menu every day! THURSDAY – MEXICAN MUNCHIES: Chicken Taco Salad in Homemade Mini Bowls; Beef Taq , ...
TUSCAN SUMMER
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$105.00
Add magic to your summer with a Tuscan culinary experience! Our lesson introduces the specialties from the beautiful region, including an abundant array of fresh produce, fresh pasta, bread, olive oil and of course wine. Tuscans use simplicity in their cooking methods in order for the flavors of the food to stand out. , ...
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LUNCH AND LEARN – AUGUST 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
$50.00
This fun DEMONSTRATION is a delightful meal & a classic treat! Come for lunch to enjoy My Momma’s Cut It with a Fork Golden Chicken, served with old fashioned Potato Salad. Dessert will be Vanilla Brioche Bread Pudding with Crème Anglaise. , ...
GOURMET COUPLES – AUGUST 1
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$195.00
Invite your partner to share a special cooking experience and prepare a menu with a group of couples. We’ll create a gourmet three course meal, and each couple will cook the recipe of their choice. When it comes together, we’ll enjoy it with a sampling of wines. Come join the fun and be part of creating Cherry Pecan Br , ...
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KIDS AND PARENTS COOK
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
$210.00
Does your child (8 and above) like to cook? Here is a perfect class where the two of you can have fun together while you increase your knowledge and cooking skills. Come be partners & learn to create Baked Ziti with Pesto & Red Sauce; Battered Mozzarella Sticks with Homemade Dipping Sauce; Broccoli, Caramelized , ...
STREET FOODS OF THE WORLD
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$105.00
Street foods are like windows into a culture’s specialties and the food of its’ people. This lesson gives you first-hand experience using ingredients, spices, flavorings, and cooking methods of street foods around the world! Come join this fun and interesting class with Bhaji Sliders (Mumbai Spicy Potato & Cauliflo , ...

SWEET BASIL COOKING INSTRUCTORS – SCOTTSDALE

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Sweet Basil Cooking School’s specialty is hands-on classes. Any good teaching requires a number of skills but teaching hands-on classes requires the most. Experience and knowledge are crucial, of course.

To quote a teaching chef we knew many years ago: “You need eyes in the back – and on the sides – of your head.” And those eyes have to react quickly to a number of different hands doing a number of different tasks.

We’re proud that our chef instructors are so good at what they do – and that each one enjoys sharing their skills with those who attend our classes. Each one is an integral part of what makes Sweet Basil Cooking School a success.

Chef Lisa Brisch left a rewarding career in Information Technology management when she realized that the passion she’s developed for cooking after college kept growing. Following her dream she became a graduate of the Art Institute of Phoenix’s Culinary Program and then a Certified Personal Chef. Chef Brisch launched her Dinner Thyme Personal Chef Service in 2000 and has since won a loyal clientele in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania and now Phoenix. Her forte is cooking with a focus on high quality ingredients, good fats (olive oil, coconut oil, avocados, etc), whole grains, fresh proteins, and seasonal vegetables.” As does any good business owner, however, Chef Brisch knows that her success as a personal chef is based on “cooking for people based on how they like to eat, not how you like to cook.”

Hometown: Santa Monica, CA

Linda owns Linda’s Dinner Designs catering.
The best advice anyone ever gave her about cooking: “Taste everything!”
What is your favorite cooking tip: “Rub your hands on stainless steel to remove food odors.”
Linda’s favorite meal: Rack of Lamb.
Linda’s favorite web site: www.saveur.com

Linda’s most memorable cooking experience: “While catering a party I was using a large amount of brandy for a flambé that created a pan fire that reached the ceiling. I kept shaking the pan until the alcohol cooked out.”

Amy Barnes has been a Chef in Scottsdale for over 30 years. She opened the Hyatt Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch in 1986 and worked her way up from prep cook to a Chef at the award-winning Golden Swan, studying under Anton Brunbauer.

During that time she attended and graduated from the Culinary Arts program at Scottsdale Community College.

Amy competed in the AZ Culinary Arts VICA Chef Championship where she took the Gold, then won the State and National competitions. She has made appearances on local television, magazines, and newspapers and competed in Food TV brief appearance on Guys Grocery Games. She has worked at a number of very popular restaurants including: Paniolo, RoxSand , Hyatt Regency in Austin Texas, with her favorite being The Impeccable Pig in Old Town Scottsdale.

Amy has taught recreational cooking classes at Sweet Basil Gourmetware and Cooking School for over 20 years. Owner Martie Sullivan gives Amy full freedom for Chef Creativity in the development of her classes. When Amy is not teaching, she is cooking or reading about cooking. Amy loves meeting new people and makes every cooking class a party.

We are thrilled to announce that Jan D’Atri has joined Sweet Basil’s teaching staff! We have always been excited to have Jan (and occasionally her delightful “Momma”!) teach a class when they had the time.

Jan has been so busy for many years as a restaurant owner, cookbook author and on television, radio, in newspapers, and literally countless civic tasks.

And now a Sweet Basil Chef Instructor.