Greek and Mediterranean Home Cooking Class

Melbourne

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Food and Drink

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Cooking

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Team Building Cooking Classes

Greek and Mediterranean Home Cooking Class Experience Melbourne

Serve up Greek and Mediterranean food in Melbourne!

Kelly

The Traveling Spoon AU

6k followers

20k likes

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3 hours

1 to 10 guests

$234 - $465 (Afterpay available)

($465 per guest when you book for 1 guest, $250/guest for 2+ guests, $234/guest for 5+ guests)

Melbourne

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Food and Drink

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Cooking

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Team Building Cooking Classes

Overview

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Teacher

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What you'll do

Kelly from The Traveling Spoon is excited to teach you how to cook a delicious and nutritious meal, in a fun and interactive environment, so that you can gain the kitchen skills needed to become a confident cook.

Welcome to her open plan kitchen and a fruit tree garden to enjoy an authentic cooking class with a proud home cook. Together you will prepare, cook, eat and enjoy a delicious Greek and Mediterranean meal!

Firstly, learn about the Mediterranean based diet, its health benefits and the 10 ground rules of this diet.

Then, you will learn how to prepare traditional, authentic dishes that you won’t commonly find in a Greek restaurant. Instead, it is food that you would expect to eat in the kitchen of a Greek family home.

Learn to cook three dishes in your three hour hands on cooking class. You might make Cretan bougatsa (cheese parcels with 3 cheeses) or tiropita (cheese pie), gemista (rice stuffed tomatoes) or dolmades (vine leaves stuffed with rice) and olive oil and wine biscuits or olive oil and orange cake.

At the end of the class, sit down together to enjoy and share the meal you helped prepare!

Sample menu:

Please note menu might vary. If there are particular dishes you are interested in trying, please include these in your request.

Greek coffee or mountain tea
Menu 1: Tiropita (cheese pie), Gemista (rice stuffed tomatoes), Chicken skewers with lemon and oregano, Olive oil and wine biscuits
Menu 2: Cretan bougatsa (cheese parcels with 3 cheeses), Lahanosalata cabbage salad with grape molasses dressing or Kotopoulo me araka (chicken with peas), Dolmades (vine leaves stuffed with rice), Olive oil and orange cake

Note: Vegetarian options are also available.

Knowledge required

Beginner-friendly.

What you'll get

Expert guidance
Delicious Greek and Mediterranean food to savour!

What to bring

Wear enclosed shoes and tie long hair back.

Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, team building activity or hens party.

This experience would also be a fun gift for her, gift for mum or gift for couples.

Location

Moorabbin, VIC

Exact location is masked for privacy. You'll automatically get the specific address after booking.

Greek and Mediterranean Home Cooking Class location

Your teacher

Kelly

Kelly is a health, fitness and wellbeing enthusiast, who could talk about food and travel all day! She is of Cretan heritage and was born and brought up in Australia. Greece is very close to her heart and she would like to share more about her heritage, her passion for Greek food and her love for travel. She hosts culinary travel tours to Crete and conducts Greek cooking classes and walking food tours in Melbourne.

Your host

The Traveling Spoon AU

6k followers

20k likes

Traveling Spoon was founded by Aashi Vel and Steph Lawrence who met at the Haas School of Business in 2011 around their joint passion of food. They shared a dream of helping people connect with authentic food experiences while traveling and founded Traveling Spoon to build a community of fellow food and travel lovers seeking meaningful experiences around the world.

In 2007, Steph traveled to China for the first time. After two and half weeks in the country, she was struck by how little she had connected with the local food and culture. Spending weeks traveling by tour bus from silk factory to hotel banquet hall where she ate with other tourists, she realised she didn't connect with the local culture at all. She decided to move to China in 2009 to learn the language and explore the culture through its food - she wanted to learn to make dumplings from a Chinese grandmother. But when she moved there, she found there was nothing out there to help her find the experiences she sought.

In 2011, Aashi traveled to Mexico, and had a similar problem discovering the local food and culture. She scoured review websites trying to find the most authentic food and the least touristy restaurants she could. On her way to another overly-crowded tourist spot, she saw through a window a woman in her kitchen, making dinner. That was where she wanted to be eating dinner, sharing a homemade meal with this local Mexican woman, hearing her stories and learning about her culture.

When Aashi and Steph met at business school in 2011, these experiences had never left them. Both of them believed in the power of travel to make the world a smaller, better place, and wanted to help travellers experience authentic, meaningful, and delicious travel experiences around the world. They started working on Traveling Spoon in all their MBA classes, launched the company after graduating in 2013, and haven't looked back since.