Cooking Classes

Week of July 31, 2021

Chef Palma Bellinghieri directs and teaches the popular camp series “For Young Chef’s,” teaching healthy eating, food preparation, and cooking for children and teens.

Palma Bellinghieri is a second-generation culinary artist and chef. Born in Mexico City, she is a graduate of the Pierrefeux Institute and Glion Hotel Management School in Montreaux, Switzerland. A founding member of the Mind/Body Health Initiative, Palma specializes in converting nutritional guidelines into a delicious lifestyle of eating to improve health and longevity, as well as reversing chronic and degenerative conditions. Daughter of world-renown Sicilian chef and restaurateur Alfredo Bellinghieri in Mexico City, Palma fuses generations of family and Bellinghieri-restaurant recipes and upbringing into nutritious and delicious foods. Palma is specialized in vegetarian cooking, and her hands-on workshops and parties celebrate delicious and healthy eating, in addition to an in-depth understanding of products in the marketplace, with an eye to shopping for novel products and best values. Palma is also the Demonstration Chef at the Vegetarian Cooking School of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. At the Center, she teaches food preparation skills, delicious international recipes and healthy eating to adults and the general public, assuring us that thoughtful choices can be made, leading to prevention and reversal of many chronic conditions. To further promote healthy eating and lifestyles in the family, Palma conducts at-home programs teaching how to buy, prepare and store foods, as well as catering delicious healthy food for special events and parties.

 

Palma offers hands-on culinary experiences, 3.5 hours each, during which you will enjoy preparing your own meal along with fellow cooks. Classes take place at La Cocina Que Canta, our culinary center.

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 9:00 am for Tweens 10- 12 years old.   Complimentary  Sign Up
The maximum number of guests per class is 10.

Tuesday Hands-On Cooking Class 4:00 pm 13 to adults. Class $125+tax.  Sign Up
The maximum number of guests per class is 10.

Wednesday Hands-On Cooking Class 9:00 am for Tweens 10- 12 years old.   Complimentary  Sign Up
The maximum number of guests per class is 10.