CulinAerie

CulinAerie is a recreational cooking school in downtown Washington DC offering a wide range of cooking classes and events including baking and pastry instruction, wine and spirits tastings, series classes, knife skills, cooking technique workshops and international cuisine seminars.

To view our cooking class and event schedule, please click on the Calendar tab. If you’re interested in purchasing gift certificates for the holidays, please email us at info@CulinAerie.com.

CulinAerie is also an ideal private party and corporate event venue. Our beautiful facilities are perfect for team-building and team-bonding events, holiday parties, summer associate events, amateur chefs’ challenge competitions, alumni gatherings, birthday parties and bridal showers. To plan a unique and fun event with a culinary motif, contact us at 202-587-5674. If you're interested in our assistants program, please email us at info@CulinAerie.com.

We look forward to cooking with you!

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Due to the impending weather,

please note the following schedule announcements:

Monday classes are CANCELLED and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Tuesday classes are CANCELLED and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Wednesday's EXI event is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Thank you for your patience, and if you have any questions,
please contact us by emailing info@culinaerie.com.

Happy cooking in the snowy weather!
(Posted Thurs Feb 4, 2010)

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Chef Rock - Heating It Up at CulinAerie!

Discovering his love of cooking when he was in his teens, Chef Rock took both cooking and home economics classes in high school. He soon became obsessed with the challenge of running a restaurant kitchen, and decided that this would be his career. Making the most of his talent and determination, Rock became an award-winning, honors culinary graduate of the noted Johnson and Wales University. Later he would become sous chef for a number of promiment DC establishments including Planet Hollywood and Bet on Jazz!

Now the winner from Season 3 of Hell's Kitchen, Chef Rock Harper will be here at CulinAerie Wednesday February the 24th, heating up the kitchen with some kick-ass Cajun food that will make you sit up and take notice!

Make sure to head over to the calendar and sign up while you can!

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Susan and Susan on MonkeySee with Rob Carson from Mix 107.3

Watch Susan and Susan make a variety of salads and a tart on MonkeySee with well-known Mix 107.3 radio personality Rob Carson.

How to Make a Raspberry Tart with Susan Holt
How to Make a Raspberry Tart
Raspberry Tart - Making the Filling
Raspberry Tart - Plating the Desert

Summer Salads with Susan Watterson
Mixed Greens Salad
Classic Caesar
Bread Salad
Fatouche Salad
Composed Salad of Beets, Endive, and Orange
Fruit and Vegetable Salad

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Today's Lesson: Cutting Up

By: Jane Black of the Washington Post

At 12:30 p.m., seven cooks circle a large stainless-steel table. In front of each one is a platter of ingredients: a clove of garlic, a slice of onion, basil, spinach, feta cheese and tomatoes. In the next 30 minutes, they will mince, slice, chiffonade and saute their way to a lunch of pasta with fresh tomato sauce and spinach.

The skills are basic, and, even with the clock ticking, the vibe is relaxed. That's the goal of classes at Cookology, a culinary school that opened last month. The bright storefront in the Dulles Town Center mall offers lessons in knife skills, baking and 30-minute meals, all for between $40 and $60 each.

"The old standby of going to a really expensive restaurant doesn't work anymore," says owner Maria Kopsidas, a former public relations and marketing consultant. "At a class, you're in there getting some skills, a glass of wine, talking to the chef and eating your creation."

At a time when consumers are cutting back on just about everything, entrepreneurs are betting that cooking classes are the way food lovers...

Continue reading at the Washington Post!

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Want to Learn to Cook
From a 'Top Chef' Contestant?
Head to CulinAerie!

By: Kate Nerenberg of the Washingtonian

Like many chefs, Susan Holt and Susan Watterson dreamed of owning a place. They just didn't want to spend 18 hours a day in a restaurant. So the former instructors at Gaithersburg's L'Acadamie de Cuisine, created what they knew best: a cooking school.

The recently opened CulinAerie is targeted at a new generation of foodies who think of chefs as celebrities and farmers markets as social meeting spots. Some of the hands-on classes have ethnic themes-Persian, Far East fusion-and other sessions cover basics cake making and knife skills. The calendar also features lunchtime lectures with talks on food writing, nutrition, and throwing a dinner party...

Continue reading at the Washingtonian!

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