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Raise Your Food IQ: How to Be a Better Grocery Shopper

Home Cooking New York

4.8 2,257 reviews

Learn how to make the best food choices at the grocery store with Home Cooking New York's valuable food education and grocery shopping class. Led by founder Jennifer Clair, this course will teach you how to decipher keywords like organic, grass-fed, and GMO-free, and uncover the true story behind the foods we eat. Improve your food IQ and become a smarter grocery shopper.

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Description

This workshop was specifically designed to help our students make the best food choices in the supermarket, from the produce section to the freezer aisle and everything in between.

We'll deep-dive into buzzwords like local, organic, grass-fed, pastured, GMO-free, sustainable, certified humane, wild, low-fat, and extra-virgin to uncover the true story behind the foods we eat.

WHAT IS COVERED?

How to Shop for Produce
Organic vs. conventional; what produce you should always buy organic; defining “local;” why small local farms are often better than "organic.” What are the most sustainable crops to focus on?

How to Shop for Meats
Understanding the vast differences between your choices (grass-fed vs. corn-fed beef, pasture-raised vs. free-range chickens, commercial animal husbandry vs. small-scale, farm-raised vs. wild-caught fish); buying eggs and dairy products. What are the most sustainable meats to consume?

Good Fats vs. Bad Fats
What fats and oils to buy for cooking, which to avoid, and why; how is skim milk made and why it is considered a processed food; how to choose a good quality of olive oil and coconut oil.

Understanding Food Labels
How to read a package label: the nutritional information, the ingredients, and manufacturers' claims. What are GMOs and why should I care?

Eating Locally
Why local produce and locally-produced meats are better for you. What you should buy at the farmer’s market vs. the supermarket.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

School Notes:

For NYC In-Person Classes:

You’ll receive a complete recipe packet and enjoy a full sit-down meal at the end of class with your classmates. Our classes are BYOB, and you are welcome to bring a bottle to enjoy at the sit-down meal (not including our baking or dessert classes).

Our classes are hands-on, coupled with demonstration-style teaching. Everyone is situated at their own cutting board/chef’s knife station around a large wooden work table that accommodates the whole class (10 people max). We work together as a group, with the chef at the head of the table.

We focus on knife skills, preparing ingredients for cooking, and we strive to find every opportunity to offer you a hands-on experience at the stove and at your station, all within the spatial parameters of a single stove/family-style kitchen. We ask for volunteers to assist in all cooking.

Refund Policy

For Public Classes:

We have a firm 3 business days cancellation policy (for credit only) to ensure that we have enough time to re-fill your seat with another student.

Please note: Boot Camps require 6 business days notice to be rescheduled.

While it is not in our nature to say no, we are simply not able to accommodate last-minute illnesses or work-related conflicts. However, you are always welcome to send someone in your place, because we understand that these things do happen. Classes are not refundable.

For Culinary Boot Camps:

Because of the volume of Boot Camps we offer, we cannot offer make-up classes to anyone who misses a single class, no matter the reason, as it happens too often and we cannot handle that volume of make-ups. Once you book your boot camp, make sure to mark (and prioritize) all the dates in your calendar.

Because we know how disappointing it is to miss a class, you are always welcome to send a friend in your place (just send us their name ahead of class), and perhaps insist that they cook you dinner as repayment.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

Thank you for understanding!

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Home Cooking New York

Home Cooking New York is a cooking school in downtown New York City that offers intimate and hands-on cooking classes. With a variety of courses covering basic cooking techniques and cuisine-focused favorites, Home Cooking New York caters to students of all skill levels who want to expand their culinary abilities.

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