Cookery Classes to Take This Spring in Washington, D.C.

For an authentic Italian dining and cooking experience, people in the know head to Al Tiramisu restaurant in Dupont Circle for one of chef-owner Luigi Diotaiuti’s phenomenal cooking classes. Luigi is a chef, certified sommelier, and television personality who shares his passion for his heritage and his birthplace—Basilicata in Southern Italy. He makes each class feel like an intimate dinner party, complete with fantastic conversation, authentic Italian dishes, and lovely Italian wine. His engaging personality and enthusiasm keep people coming back year after year.

Cozymeal is a new way to take a cooking class that lets you choose the venue; the chef can teach you how to cook in the comfort of your kitchen at home, at their place, or at a venue you both choose. It’s as easy as searching for a class by topic and location, registering, paying, and putting the date on your calendar. Verified chefs teach the classes, and whether you want to learn how to cook the new spring vegetables purchased at the local farmers’ market, your kids want to become cupcake experts, or the quest for perfect fried chicken is driving you bonkers, there is a class to satisfy your culinary ambitions.

Just Simply…Cuisine’s classes may take place in a private home, but they are engaging and led by a talented cook with years of experience in the kitchen. The person at the helm is Chris Coppola Leibner, and her classes are distinct because she sources her herbs and produce from her organic, backyard gardens and artisanal, sustainable farmers’ markets, butchers, dairies, and fishmongers. There are no set courses because each class menu changes with the season. What Chris finds at the market the morning of the class is what determines the featured dishes that day, and each participation class includes instruction in three to five dishes. Chris Coppola Leibner’s classes are brimming with helpful tips and instructions, and over the three-hour span, each student will cook, taste, and sample their work with wine and a thirst-quenching San Pelligrino.