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Blue Ribbon Culinary Center

Blue Ribbon classes take the challenge out of cooking and give you the tools to entertain with ease and style.

You’ll get hands-on experience making recipes covered each week. And in every class you’ll learn how to create a simple and delicious home-style dessert. Class will conclude with good conversation as everyone joins together to enjoy coffee and dessert. Join us in the kitchen to begin the delicious adventure that is home cooking!

Blue Ribbon is directed by Virginia & Mike Duppenthaler.  Virginia has studied at Cordon Bleu, Paris; Gastronomic Institute, Vienna; University of Science & Technology, Ames, Iowa. A cookbook author and former television video cooking show host, she founded her first cooking school in 1977 in Vancouver, Canada.  Mike is a former businessman, who, in his spare time, has been throwing large, fabulous parties and dinners since his college days.  An avid cookbook collector, he also is a knife skills and barbeque expert.  He has been teaching at Blue Ribbon since 1998.

Blue Ribbon Cooking & Culinary Center is also Seattle's premier provider of corporate team building events.

Themes from any of our classes can be transformed into corporate team activities for groups of up to 125. We provide instructors for every 12 guests. Participants receive hands-on cooking instruction and then feast together on whatever they've created. It's fun, educational and builds morale.

Classes last about 3 hours and can be arranged to cover any topic. Each class is custom-designed with your company's needs in mind. Classes are held at our 5,200-square-foot waterfront culinary center on Lake Union.

Finally, get your kids hooked on cooking! During the school year join our after school Kids' Cooking Club, and in the summer sign-up for our Kids' Summer Cooking Camp.

Note: Epitourean, LLC provides a referral service for operators of culinary classes, vacations, cruises, schools and demonstrations. We cannot be held responsible for variations in descriptions, courses offered, changes to dates and/or prices provided by the operators.