Soups & Stocks Cooking Class

Are you ready to expand your knowledge of culinary techniques and cooking skills? Join us for our immersive and entertaining experiences as you learn hands-on skills in our state-of-the-art kitchens. Invite your friends and family, and sign up now - 12 persons maximum in each class. Ideal for those at-home cooks looking to enhance their skills for personal enjoyment, these classes provide essential techniques while going beyond the basics to inspire creativity and confidence in the kitchen. Great soups can be made from the finest and most expensive ingredients or from leftovers in the fridge, but they all require a good base, or stock. Learn how to make all the basics: beef, chicken, veal and vegetable stocks.

From these, you'll learn how to make a variety of soups including Southwest squash, fennel corn chowder and Vichyssoise.

What You'll Learn:

Principles of stock making

Puree soups

Bisques and chowders

Cold soups

Culinary Personal Enrichment courses are taught by Culinary Institute of the South Instructor Chef Damon Dickerson, who has more than 15 years of experience in fine dining, luxury hotels and high-profile events. He holds an associate degree in culinary arts and a bachelor’s in Food Service Management from Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina.