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Home Cooking was founded on the idea that what a person wants in cooking instruction is something tailored to their personal tastes, their skills, and their schedule. And since confidence is the key to success in the kitchen, there is no better place to learn than in the comfort of your own home. Home Cooking teaches students how to cook the foods they want to cook with the tools they already have--a welcome antidote to inflexible culinary school classes. In-home cooking classes also provide students with the opportunity to help create their own customized lesson plans
with the help of an experienced instructor.


Jennifer Herman Clair
launched Home Cooking in 2001 after years of working in the culinary industry. In addition to teaching private clients, she is also a Chef-Instructor at the New School, Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, and City Harvest.  For more than three years, she was a Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, developing cookbooks and managing the Cooking & Entertaining channel of marthastewart.com.  Prior to MSLO, she worked in the cookbook division of William Morrow & Company and at Saveur magazine. She graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education (formerly Peter Kump's) in 1998 after receiving a full James Beard Foundation scholarship. Before moving to NYC, she was the catering manager of the Tabard Inn, Washington DC's oldest hotel.
She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband, singer/songwriter Stephen Clair.


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