Viking Cooking School - Salt Lake City

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Viking Cooking School
at Kimball Distributing
2233 South 300 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
Jim Light, Executive Chef
Phone: (801) 464-0113
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The Viking Cooking School may be the most enjoyable school on earth - even the homework is fun. From the novice to the experienced cook, over 77,000 students including kids, moms and dads, business professionals, and others come alone, or together with friends, to attend our classes each year. If you love to cook, entertain, or just appreciate the pleasure of great food, the Viking Cooking School is the place to indulge your passions.

Our culinary spirit keeps us on the cutting-edge of all things food and inspires us to constantly evolve our menus with the seasons and current cooking trends. Select from our wide array of exciting classes covering subjects such as ethnic cuisines, basic techniques of cooking, baking, vegetarian, and cocktail and dinner parties, whatever you choose, we'll make sure you have a blast.

Our warm and attentive teachers are the absolute best at their craft. Our recipes are created by professionally trained chefs and tested in our Viking Test Kitchen to ensure they are accurate and clear so that you can recreate them successfully at home in your own kitchen. In line with our commitment to providing students with the best tools, all Viking Cooking Schools are equipped with high-performance, professional Viking appliances, cookware and cutlery. To ensure your every visit to a Viking Cooking School is a first-class experience, we invite each student to give us their feedback after every visit.

The National Breast Cancer Foundation – Since April, 2005, $5.00 of each paid tuition from Girls' Night Out classes continues to be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation whose mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need. To date over 10,420 students have attended Girls' Night Out classes company wide.

Fun and Informative Classes

Our Culinary Program offers a variety of subjects for everyone and at times that are convenient for you. Whether you like to get your hands dirty or sit back and let us do the work; and whether you want to learn about pizzas or pasta, ethnic cuisines or backyard grilling, we have the class that's right for you.

Spend a few hours or even a few days with us. In our single-subject classes you'll learn new skills in just 2 to 3 hours that will last a lifetime. Or, enroll in one of our series classes and make new friends as you meet regularly to delve further into the topics as the series progresses.

You'll soon see that the Viking Cooking School is an adventure in cooking that's fun for everyone!
Click on a topic below to learn more about our classes:

• Hands-on Workshops
• Demonstrations
• Series Classes
• Classes for Kids & Teens
• Guest Chefs
• Special Events
• "Taste" of Viking
• Viking Test Drives

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Who is Chef Jim Light?

After a lifetime of studying food and food culture as simply an avocation, he threw middle-aged caution to the wind and went about making it a career. To start, he enrolled in the Culinary Arts program at the renowned Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.

Passion, creativity, reverence and humility became his mantra. Sharing what he learned became his mission and, upon graduation in March 2003, his dream was realized in establishing HomeCooks Culinary Adventures in Salt Lake City, which he did and it was very successful. Now he is on to another adventure and that is Executive Chef and Kitchen Manager at Viking Cooking School in Salt Lake City.

Good technical training, a sense of history/geography help to cultivate a deep understanding and appreciation of the culinary arts. So, he traveled often to learn about indigenous cuisines, attend cooking classes and collect cookbooks. Within the past few years, his excursions have taken him throughout the United States, to England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Mexico to learn about local produce, wines, cheeses and cooking techniques. He is fascinated by the migration of food ingredients throughout the world during times of exploration and conquest and how those ingredients have influenced not only cuisines but indeed whole cultures and societies throughout history.

Although he has worked in a number of well respected professional kitchens in Utah, Wyoming and New York, his aspirations have always been in teaching rather than restaurant service. His goal will be achieved if he can contribute to the broadening of the culinary landscape in Salt Lake City by making classic as well as innovative techniques and knowledge more accessible to more food lovers. He has considerable experience, it's true, but mostly it is his ongoing insatiable passion for this most satisfying of all art forms.

—iUtah.tv: Chef Jim Light Teaches us to Cook, Published Monday, April 27, 2009.