My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, because it’s all about the food. And the food for Thanksgiving is so delicious: lots of onions cooked in butter, crispy poultry skin, sweet sweet potatoes, and pie, pie, and more pie. I could eat Thanksgiving food all month long, so at Kitchen Conservatory, we are eating Thanksgiving food all […]

The winter cooking class schedule at Kitchen Conservatory is now posted online. There are 160 brand-new classes to choose among! We welcome several new cooking instructors, including Francophile Karen Mitcham-Stoeckley of the Eagle’s Nest, chef Pete Slay of Fu Manchu, Frank McGinty of Kaldi’s with a coffee-flavored menu, and Aysha Sadikovic with a Mediterranean menu. […]

Yes, there is still availability for hosting a holiday party at Kitchen Conservatory. Cooking with friends or co-workers is great fun and the food is really delicious. We offer enormous flexibility on the menu. Plus, everyone gets a copy of the recipes. Cooking parties can be scheduled any time of day, any day of the week (subject to kitchen […]

No one appreciates comfort food more than Chef Cary McDowell. Born in the South, Cary cooks the food you want to eat again and again. In just a few months after opening his restaurant, Revival has become a go-to favorite among St. Louis diners. Revival serves the kind of food St. Louisans really crave. Revival also offers […]

Interested in food? Kitchen Conservatory is now hiring for Kitchen Assistants. Applicants should love food and love to cook. Job entails a 5-6 hour shift, which includes setting up for cooking classes, helping the chef-instructor, and cleaning up. Schedule is flexible, but the applicant must be available to work on nights and weekends. Fringe benefits: […]

The master of Indian curries, Raghavan Iyer, will give a cooking demonstration and book signing at Kitchen Conservatory on Tuesday, September 16 at 6 pm, sponsored by the St. Louis Culinary Society. Raghavan Iyer is an award-winning cooking instructor and cookbook author. He is on a book tour for his newest cookbook, 660 Curries. Are […]

We just finished our annual Cookbook Fair (mark your calendar for next year during the first week in August), which offers such a wide and interesting variety of used cookbooks. Some of the comments written in the books are just as interesting as the printed recipes. In one cookbook, I found a type-written piece of paper with a […]

Ten years ago, we launched www.kitchenconservatory.com to facilitate registering for cooking classes and buying essential kitchen merchandise. Time has come for a brand-new website. The new and improved www.kitchenconservatory.com features sorting and searching for cooking classes. Rather than scrolling through all the classes to find the one that you want (although the clever titles make […]

Need some exciting new ideas for summer cooking? Next week, Kitchen Conservatory will feature three talented chefs preparing wonderful dishes for the hot weather. All three of these delicious and stylish restaurants — Araka, Oceano, and Revival — have added so much to the St. Louis dining scene. Now is the chance to see their […]

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