Get ready to claim your spot before it's too late; this summer is gonna be delightfully delicious! Our week-long camps are an intensive, culinary experience chock-full of hands-on cooking classes in outdoor kitchens and restaurants, farm harvests, market challenges, cook-offs, blindfolded palate play…and so much more! Kids ages 7-13 are welcome to join us in our culinary crusade!
East Bay Camp Weeks have a majority of drop-offs and pick-ups at Sprouts' Outdoor Garden Kitchen at 1309 Allston Way, Berkeley. During the day, we travel to local gardens, restaurants, and markets!
SF Camps Weeks have alternating drop-offs and pick-ups at Alemany Farms and Bloomingdales at Westfield Centre. During the day, we travel to local gardens, restaurants, and markets.
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Note: The class fee does not include transportation between culinary sites or personal market money.And there's more! We have also updated our cancellation policy. Any camp registration purchased between March 17th and April 7th will have no cancellation fees!
Here's an idea of what a typical East-Bay camp week looks like!
Monday
Welcome to camp! We'll break the ice with a few culinary games, and then learn key knife skills as we whip up garden-fresh panzanella salad and bean burgers with a guest chef from Third Cousin. Next, we'll bus to the farmer's market for a scavenger hunt with our local farmer friends. Before we leave, we'll pick up a few ingredients for our next activity - A "Chopped"-style cooking game at Chop Bar Commissary Kitchen! If we're lucky, we might even get to whip up a sweet surprise at the end!
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Tuesday
Lights! Camera! Action! We'll be cooking Moroccan fare on camera with youth chef Cole. Tell all your friends- the class will be aired on Cole's Kitchen Youtube Series! We'll break down the set and head over to Jack London Square's
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Wednesday
Today is gonna be sweeeeeeet. We'll kick off the morning by flipping our very own sweet and savory crepes. We don't cut corners here ... which means whipping up our own homemade cream as well! Next stop is Gill Tract Farm for some gardening 101. Don't forget to pick a handful of herbs because the next recipe is ... pizza! Yep, you heard right. We'll be making homemade flatbreads (with homemade ricotta!) right in our outdoor pizza oven.
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Thursday
Field trip! Today we'll be getting our hands dirty at Alemany Farms in SF as we harvest and learn the basics of urban farming. But wait, it gets better. The head chef from Dorian Restaurant will come along to show us how to cook up a farm-fresh family meal! Before hitting the road back to Berkeley, we'll stir up some homemade fruit sodas and call it a day.
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Friday
Today's the day! We'll prepare for an epic cook-off with Guest Chef Adrian formerly of Michelin-star restaurant, Campton Place. We'll bus to Sprouts Farmer's Market where each team will get to pick out a special ingredient. While we're there, the store manager will challenge us to an ingredient hunt and a blind-fold palate game. Back at our home base, we'll culminate the week's culinary frenzy in an epic cook-off. May the most delicious dish win!
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* We will be charging a late fee for any camper picked up after 5:15 pm.
*The class fee does not include transportation between culinary sites or personal market money.
*Because we cook with real chefs, our schedules are subject to change