Building connection,
comfort,
& community
through good food
Cooking Lesson Dinner Parties
Public Cooking Classes
Private Cooking Lessons
Virtual Lessons & Demonstrations
Pack the Freezer Baby Shower
Your cooking class was voted best activity ever by the crowd!! Kudos to you!
– Nina H
Cooking Lesson Dinner Parties
Thank you for creating such a special, fun and delicious evening for our family. It was a real treat to see how engaged the kids were in learning new techniques and tasting new foods – and to see them working together. We were all thrilled with the outcome and had a lovely meal thanks to you.
– Ann S
Whether you’re celebrating a special birthday, a Vermont bachelorette weekend, a holiday family reunion, or you simply want to learn some new tricks in the kitchen, a cooking party is a unique, active, and hands-on experience that your guests will remember!
We’ll build a menu to fit your guests’ palates, cooking skills, and culinary ambitions. We’ll take care of the details so that you can enjoy cooking with your friends and making delicious memories. And when the cooking is done, it’s time to feast! We’ll even take care of the kitchen cleanup while you and your guests share a well-deserved meal.
Gather Round helped me host a dinner party to celebrate the marriage of a dear friend. I wanted it to be an interactive cooking lesson rather than a catered dinner — a group experience. Everyone was engaged no matter their expertise in the kitchen. Our chef made us feel confident and successful as we made our own feast. It was a great night!
– Michael H
Public Cooking Classes
Do you and your besties love active get-togethers? For the group that’s not content to sit and yap — instead, you much prefer to do and yap — a public cooking class is the perfect evening out.
In each class, you’ll receive tons of hands-on learning in a fun and supportive atmosphere, recipes to keep, and a feast to share with new-made friends!
We host monthly cooking classes at Red Poppy Cakery in Waterbury, VT and occasional cooking classes at Richmond Community Kitchen in Richmond, VT. All tickets are available at Seven Days Tickets.
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Private Cooking Lessons
How do people manage to cook fresh food every single night? How rad would it be to feel confident, calm — even creative — in the kitchen?
Working with you was an incredible delight — not only did you inspire creativity, curiosity, and owning my love for food, but you also instilled a quiet confidence in me that allows me to now whip up something to eat based on ingredients I have.
– Rachel K
We’ll create a customized curriculum to help you master the skills, cuisines, and ‘back-pocket recipes’ that you’ve always wanted to learn. We’ll even assign the best kind of homework: hand-selected recipes to extend your learning!
I was so stuck about making dinner but now I have new recipes and skills so that dinner is not such a chore anymore.
– Annie K
Virtual Cooking Lessons & Demonstrations
Looking for a fun and friendly alternative to the typical staff meeting or work retreat for your remote crowd? Cooking is a powerful counterbalance to most professional work. And for folks who spend most of their time at a desk, working with one’s hands is refreshingly tangible and immediately rewarding!
From my no-frills home kitchen, I’ll lead your group in an easy cooking project that will shake, stir, and whip up the ordinary staff meeting. By the end of the session, you’ll notice a new energy and cohesion among your work-from-home staff!
Note: Gather Round serves the Burlington, Vermont area, but Virtual Cooking Lessons are available to English-speaking groups anywhere around the world!
Pack the Freezer Baby Shower
You know that the baby gear isn’t what will help you survive and thrive in the postpartum period. When that baby gets here, you’ll need help with life-admin tasks like sleeping and eating.
A Pack the Freezer Baby Shower is a party in which your friends and family make you the food that will keep you nourished and happy in the first weeks with your new family member.
With a packed freezer, you’ll be able to feed your growing family and care for yourself without lifting a finger.
I’ll take care of the details so that your community can have fun, learn new recipes, and show you their love!
Before our second child was born, we didn’t want the typical baby shower. Gather Round’s Pack the Freezer Shower was the perfect thing! Chef Ariel organized our friends and family to make a stockpile of burritos, enchiladas, dumplings, smoothies, and lactation-cookie ice cream sandwiches!! It was a fun and festive party, and everyone had something to do. When our daughter arrived a week later, we felt way more relaxed knowing that the food question had been answered.
– Vasiliy K