Food That Empowers Your Mind
- Tue, Nov 3 • 11:30 AM +More Dates
- 1 to 8 guests
- 4-course meal Great for groups
- Mid-City Area
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Healthy cooking classes in Mid-City Area on Cozymeal are hands-on, beginner-friendly and designed to help guests learn, cook and dine with confidence.
4.8/5 from 26 verified guest reviews
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Had a great time cooking and chatting with Chef Luana. Learned how to make healthy and delicious food in a realistic kitchen setting - can't wait to cook the amazing dishes at home. Pineapple with burrata was an amazing combo, and the homemade bread was great too! Risotto was mouthwatering, especially with a few tips from Chef Luana on how to make it super creamy and flavorful (and still healthy!). Chef Luana was very welcoming, and her place felt like home! We would love to be back for more classes. Recommend this class!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Great home cook and delicious meal. Will come back again
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Our class was wonderful. As soon as we walked in, Chef Luana made us feel at home. She decorated the table for Valentines Day which was a thoughtful touch! There were two other couples there and it was just the right size group to get to know each other a bit and enjoy a meal with everyone together. We each had a few minutes to work with her in the kitchen, and the rest of the time we listened and watched as the recipe came together. The only thing that would have been nice is if we each had some food preparation task or something else we could do to participate more. Overall it was a really fun and interesting experience. :)
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Chef Luana was amazing!!! It was my mom's birthday and she surprised her with a cake in addition to the rest of the food we learned to make. The food was so good, she used fresh Italian ingredients, and her husband gave great service. Such a lovely experience and I will definitely be referring her to my friends.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
We had so much fun with Luana, we made a risotto and chili ate mousse. She was a great teacher and the food was delicious
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
I had a wonderful experience with Chef Luana! Not only did I add some healthy and delicious recipes to my repertoire, I learned a lot about the beauty and simplicity of authentic Italian cooking. I highly recommend Chef Luana!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
I had a wonderful time cooking with Chef Luana! It was an intimate cooking experience where we learned how to make a delicious saffron risotto and chocolate mousse. We also prepared a pineapple burrata appetizer and a cannellini bean bruschetta. It was very educational and a fun, authentic, and collaborative environment. It was great to hear Chef Luana's stories from owning a restaurant in Italy and her tips and tricks for Italian cooking. I highly recommend this course and I look forward to trying out her other courses!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
A wonderful experience! Chef Luana did a fantastic job of giving a very hands-on experience, and her recipes are delicious. Thank you!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
What a wonderful experience cooking risotto with Chef Luana this evening. All the ingredients were fresh and some brought back from her hometown in Italy. I really love risotto and I could never make it to the quality of a restaurant at home, but now with her instruction, I am able to do it.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
I bought this cooking class for my mom and her two girlfriends. They loved every moment of it. Hopefully, I can get her another class before she heads back to the east coast. I highly recommend Chef Luna
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Great chef. Food was delicious, light, and tasty. We enjoyed our experience.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Chef Luana provided helpful, clear demonstrations and descriptions of how to cook delicious Italian foods with basic, but excellent, ingredients for a meal that combined delicious, inventive flavor combinations. She helped us understand the keys to producing such a meal in ways that gave us confidence we could also succeed at such cooking. Thank you Chef Luana!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
We learned a lot, from the right ingredients to the right techniques, and the food turned out perfect. It was a very enjoyable experience, highly recommend.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
I took the class “Food that Empowers Your Mind†with my two colleagues for a team bonding experience and we had a fantastic time! The food was fresh, delicious, and we learned valuable tips for making risotto. Chef Luana was a joy to be around. She has so much knowledge to share about cooking and it inspired me to spend more time cooking at home because it can taste better and be better for you than ordering out. We work at an environmental nonprofit and I appreciated the sustainability aspect of it as well. No plastic water bottles, she gave us each water glasses and had a water cooler, we each got our own hand towel for the bathroom, and the food is bought in larger quantities. I recommend Chef Luana to anyone wanting to learn or be inspired to cook more, and it’s a great unique opportunity for work/family/friend events.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
We had a fabulous time at Chef Luana’s class! If you always dreamed of being transported to Italy to attend a cooking class, book one with her first. We felt like we learned so much about authentic Italian cooking techniques, flavors and products. Our friend was celebrating her birthday and Chef Luana made it so special for her with birthday decor and a delicious chocolate cake. I would highly recommend her class to family and friends!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Absolutely one of our best ideas in a long time. The food, just like the conversation, was full of flavor and surprises. Chef Luana is the real deal. Full of stories, instruction and Italian soul. We weren’t sure how the evening would go but our highest hopes were surpassed 100x. Can’t wait to do it again. Wow.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Offering Chef Luana's class to my daughter was the best Christmas gift. She enjoyed the evening, learned a lot and felt like she was in Italy. She highly recommends the experience, as well as her friend who also participated in the class.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Luana is an amazing chef! We had so much fun and the food was delicious!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
I chose to cook with Chef Luana with and for my nephews as a going away gift and they were amazed at the vegetarian dish created, especially by how simple it was! Cooking with Chef Luana is much like cooking with family. Her home is beautiful and inviting and she loves to help!
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Chef Luana was amazing! Such a sweet woman and amazing cook / teacher
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Chef Luana was amazing. Very kind and lovely. Her risotto recipe was delicious, light and healthy. I usually don’t order this at restaurants because it’s too heavy. Hers was perfect. Highly recommend.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Chef Luana hosted my girlfriend and I for a private risotto cooking session and it was amazing. She took care of the prep work hours before our arrival and let us do the fun stuff of preparing our appetizers and cooking the dish itself. Chef Luana covered every detail to ensure a very private and exclusive dining experience! She is also a very pleasant person to be around. I will definitely be a repeat customer.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
Delicious and easy. Thank you for welcoming us to your home
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
I had an amazing time with Chef Luana!! Great food, clean atmosphere and very friendly! Overall a fantastic experience. I hope to come back again. Thank you.
Booked the class Comfort Chicken Dinner with Chef Betsy in Los Angeles (Mid-City)
I already left a tip. Betsy is great. It was a fun time and the food was delicious. I would like to do more hands on but not sure how that would work out with four people in the kitchen.
Booked the class Food That Empowers Your Mind with Chef Luana in Los Angeles (Central LA)
After much anticipation for Chef Luana's risotto cooking class, I left feeling cheated of both time and money. What was advertised as a hands-on culinary experience turned out to be little more than an uncomfortable sales pitch with minimal cooking involvement. "Hands-on" apparently meant chopping an onion and dicing a pineapple. That's it. Nearly everything else was pre-prepared, leaving us as audience members rather than participants. I came expecting to learn techniques and timing for perfect risotto, but instead watched as Chef Luana worked with components she had already prepared before our arrival. Most uncomfortable was the relentless self-promotion throughout the session. Rather than focusing on our learning experience, Chef Luana continuously pitched her various side businesses—offering to meal prep for us weekly, showcase her crochet work, and repeatedly suggesting she could cater our future events. At one point, she even suggested that we should consider a smaller wedding so that she and her friend could handle the catering! This unsolicited advice and constant selling created an awkward atmosphere that overshadowed any culinary instruction. To make matters worse, Chef Luana repeatedly brought up tipping throughout the class, making awkward mentions of her Venmo account multiple times. The not-so-subtle hints about gratuity created additional tension in what was already an uncomfortable atmosphere. Being reminded about tips before we'd even finished the experience felt tactless and presumptuous. At the end she pointed at her venmo link that is printed out forcing you to tip. The overall unprofessionalism was staggering. From the lack of preparation to the blatant business solicitation and tip-hunting, it felt less like a cooking class and more like being trapped in an extended infomercial. Finally, Chef Luana didn't provide any written instructions or ingredient measurements for ANY of the dishes—making it impossible to recreate at home, which defeats the entire purpose of taking a cooking class. Save your money and look elsewhere for cooking classes that actually teach you to cook.
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26 verified reviews from Mid-City Area guests, with an average rating of 4.8
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