What’s Cooking?

Try out an authentic cheese-making class at Thorncrest Farm in Goshen or a variety of adult cooking classes at AMG Catering in Danbury. A couple of other good kitchens can be found at Jones Family Farms in Shelton, where The Harvest Kitchen always has something on tap, and Middlebury Consignment in Middlebury, whose Kitchen has a full roster of cooking workshops.

There are many good choices for teaching kitchens as you head east. Among there are The Fig Cooking School in Hamden, where past students “have ranged from former restaurant owners to people who could barely boil water”; Sur La Table in Canton, whose excellent classes plug into a national network of experts and ideas; The Fieldhouse Farm in Madison, where cooking classes for adults and children are offered.

Connecticut’s legendary Silo Cooking School in New Milford is celebrating 53 years in 2025. As the state’s first recreational cooking school, The Silo was a hub for culinary icons before food TV even existed—the birthplace of the Food Network concept in the ‘70s. From Julia Child to Jacques Pépin and Martha Stewart, the biggest names in food once gathered here. Celebrate over five decades of culinary excellence by taking a cooking class of your own!