My cooking classes are a blast. You and your group will learn a few handy cooking tips and laugh the entire time we're together. I plan the menu with customers, do the shopping, show up at your doorstep, then interact with your group as I teach and you do the cooking. When we're done, we sit down and eat together. When it's all over, I take my dirty dishes with me.
Language:
English
Price per service:
$300.00
Free Consultation:
N\A
Same Day Service:
N\A
Payment Method:
Cash,Check,Paypal
Status:
Active
Policies:
No-Show Policy I keep the deposit, because I have booked my schedule and do not do any other business that day.
Cancellation Policy I keep the deposit
Requirements:
Half my fee is due upon signing contract; the other half is due when I arrive in the home.
Meeting Place:
Client's Home Client's Office
Servemehere.com members
$50 off for first-time Servemehere.com members.
Company Name:
Doug Mead Catering
Concord, CA 94521
Company Description:
My food passion comes from growing up on a farm in Arizona. Across the road from my house were 20,000 head of cattle (imagine the smell!). I can tell you most everything about raising beef cattle (I had the grand champion steer at the county fair in 1975), from birth to the dinner plate. I have prepared virtually every cut of meat from tongue to tail. That farming background also taught me the value of using fresh, local ingredients. The best cantaloupe I have ever eaten came fresh off the vine out of the field that was my backyard.
In January 2010l, I started an organization called Feast With the King, which works with local churches to help feed the needy in our communities. One of my tenets is to be a good neighbor through food. Another is to plant community gardens in foreign countries (working on Haiti, summer, 2011). I speak regularly and continue to write two books about food and faith, one of which has 100 recipes from my 13 years as a single dad (no publisher yet).
The majority of my culinary experience has come from catering on my own (part-time since 2004), and I am a self-trained chef. My team and I have done banquets for as many as 250 people. For the past two years, I have been perfecting recipes as a caterer with the hope of expanding my business into weddings. Being a private chef and giving cooking classes in the home is the next step in my growth as a chef because it exploits my cooking, teaching and communication skills.
In 2006, I left the newspaper business, in part, because I was having more fun writing about fascinating food events in the community. Along the way, I won a few prizes in local food contests (see resume). Teaching cooking classes in your home is just one more fun thing for me to do.
Hire me, and you and your group of friends will have a blast learning to cook with me.
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