Choose the menu that best suits your appetite and level of skill or adventure. Prices indicated are for up to six people and include all ingredients but do not include alcohol.

If you want to learn proper knife skills, basic recipes and general food knowledge, we’ll custom design a menu to fit your skill/difficulty comfort level. Everyone has to start somewhere. We can also teach you shopping skills that will make a trip to the market less like waterboarding.

Water Boiling & Bread Toasting 101

Price: $350

One of the best things about a trip to France is stepping into a busy bistro and being greeted by the savory aroma of roasting chickens and caramelizing onions wafting from the kitchen. This menu treats you to those same smells and flavors without having to find your passport.
Text Box: French Bistro Fare

Price: $350
Text Box: The best steaks in America come from the stockyards in KC. This steakhouse menu gives you the best-of-the-best tastes from steakhouses around the country.

Kansas City Shuffle

Price: $350

This menu takes Southern staples and amps them up with ingredients and cooking techniques from France, Italy and India.

Southern Fusion

Price: $350
Text Box: The Beechwood Restaurant in Vicksburg, Mississippi had the best fried shrimp you could ever put in your mouth. Instead of trying to replicate perfection, this menu adds a modern twist to some old favorites. Text Box: Beechwood Redux

Price: $350
Text Box: In this class we concentrate on the Italian staple, pasta. We discuss the different shapes, the best techniques and learn how to make three great sauces.

Pasta! Pasta! Pasta!

Menu Selections

Price: $350

Price: $350

So many times vegetarians get stuck eating salads and side dishes when everyone else is eating an entrée. With this lesson, everyone gets full and no one gets left out.

Viva! Vegetarian

Price: $350
Text Box: Want to impress the lady in your life? Sweep her off her feet with a gourmet, home-cooked meal. Every guy we know talks about his “special” spaghetti...trust us, she’ll like this better.

Date Night (for men only)

Price: $350

Whether you are entertaining six or sixty, these tasty morsels are guaranteed to please the crowd. In addition to the food, we’ll also teach you to make great specialty cocktails.

Ultimate Cocktail Party

Price: $350

You eat right, exercise and take good care of yourself, but every now and then you need to taste the things they say are evil. This menu isn’t on your diet, but you can always get in a second run this week to make up for it.

What Cholesterol?

Price: $350
Text Box: Japanese cuisine, with all of its precision and delicate flavors, can be intimidating. This menu unravels those mysteries and teaches you how to bring the sushi bar experience to your house.

Rising Sun

Price: $350
Text Box: At the hottest restaurants across the globe, food deconstruction is all the rage. Essentially, you take a basic dish, break it down into its core components and reassemble them in inventive ways.

Deconstruction Junction

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This menu, featuring a Vicksburg variation on the classic Eggs Benedict, is the perfect thing to learn for spoiling your special someone on a lazy Saturday morning.

Breakfast in Bed

Price: $350

Signature dishes from three famous New Orleans restaurants make up a menu from the city that care forgot. Mix with jazz and serve hot.

Big Easy

Price: $350

If what you know about Italian food comes in a jar of red sauce, then this menu is for you. There’s so much more to Italian cooking than spaghetti and here’s a great start.

“Other” Italian

Price: $350
Text Box: So you’ve got a freezer filled with game from this season and you don’t know what to do with it. This menu will teach you to expand your horizons when it comes to deer and duck.

Wild Game

Price: $350
Text Box: This menu teaches you about some of the freshest, most inventive flavors in America. The techniques out of Southern California are simple but the flavors are intense and complex.

Baja Cool

Price: $350
Text Box: Sometimes, simple foods are the best. These time-tested dishes make up a comfort food menu that is more soothing than a woobie blanket and a good book.

Meat & Potatoes

Price: Market prices apply.

Want to try something exotic? Does sautéed lobster with white truffles over saffron infused rice sound good to you? You dream it and we’ll do our best to create a lesson just for you. But remember, the more exotic the menu, the more we’ll have to charge*. Truffles don’t grow on trees you know...well maybe they grow around trees, but they don’t grow in my back yard!

Sky’s the Limit

Price: $350

In addition to the fun lessons and the great food, you can also purchase Ivy & Devine branded merchandise to commemorate the occasion or relive the experience long after your lesson. Many standard items can be purchased at your event, but personalized items will need to either be ordered two weeks in advance or delivered after the lesson.

Extras

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Text Box: Price: $350 Text Box: In this menu, we explore the complementary relationship between flaming spice and soothing sweets. For every lion...a lion tamer.

Fire & Ice