Summer Cooking Classes for High School Students

Cooking

at Residential Enrichment

Are you a serious foodie?

Come experiment in our well-stocked test kitchen.

Participate in hands-on classes under the guidance of our expert Chef Instructors
Begin with basic instruction then learn specialty and advanced preparations
Master culinary techniques: Knife skills, mise en place and plate presentations
Use farm to table, sustainable and locally sourced foods daily
Forget about fast foods; learn about the Slow Food Movement
Compete with your peers in our “Almost Famous Chef Competition”
Learn healthy cooking for healthy lives!

If you are interested in our two-week intensive, please check out our Cooking School.

About Enrichment

At Enrichment for High School Students, you can pick from over 40 class offerings in the arts, science, sports, and academics. Pick one class for the morning and one class for the afternoon. You’ll pick two new classes for each week of your stay with us. There is no limit to what you can accomplish, plenty of space for imagination, and no right or wrong way to experience JKCP, the canvas is yours. We recommend doing something you already love for one of your classes and trying something completely new for the other! Summer at JKCP is the perfect time to explore a brand new interest!

Right now, you are on the Cooking class page. Cooking is part of Enrichment, a pre-college program that lets students combine different classes each week to design a completely unique summer.

To learn about the evening activities, weekend trips, campus-life at Villanova University, and all the residential fun that goes on at Enrichment, click “More About This Program” above to read about the full Enrichment program.

Need help finding the perfect class to pair with Cooking? Give Mike Boyle, our Program Director, a call at 610.265.9401 x56.

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Our Faculty

The instructors at JKCP are what set us apart from other pre-college programs. Professional chefs, touring tennis professionals, and award winning photographers; we select our instructors for both their expertise and their love for what they do best. This passion makes each class engaging, fun, and really different than your typical high school class.

Ann-Michelle Albertson, Culinary Program Director

Chef Albertson has taken classes at the Culinary Institute of America, Johnson & Wales, L’Academic de Cuisine, Peter Kump’s New York and New England Institute of Culinary Education. Chef Albertson received her professional culinary training at La Varenne in Paris. Locally, she is the Culinary Director for Albertson Cooking School, a small family business here in Philadelphia. She also enjoys participating as a professional judge for the International Young Chef of the Year Award. An advocate of farm to table practices, Chef Albertson focuses on local and seasonal cooking working closely with farmers and growers.

Chef Instructors

Each of the summer Chef Instructors has been selected because of their professional accomplishments. They are made up of restaurant chefs, cookbook authors and culinary arts teachers.

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Our Philosophy

We believe Enrichment is a perfect balance between fun and learning. We make sure you are in an engaged, dynamic and hands-on environment where you are guaranteed to learn in a fun and interactive way. Forget about the stresses of tests, homework and grades; we believe classes should be engaging and exciting. It is summer after all!

Our professional instructors are selected based on their passion for the subject matter and their experience working with high school students. The instructors tailor the curriculum to the needs and interests of the students that week. So whether you are a beginner or expert, coming for one week or six, our classes always ensure there is something new for you to learn.

We’ll help you rethink what’s possible this summer!

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