In the Mood for Food a local vegan catering and personal chef business has been hosting classes and other events for several years. Currently hosting at least one event each week in the bay area.

… I went to school in Hospitality Management at SFSU and started getting into cooking. Since then I have enjoyed cooking and having friends over to eat with us. At the urging of friends I have decided to do some Thai cooking classes. Another thing I really got into was Ballroom dancing,so I have been attending dancing school for instructors. Dancing is not only fun also good exercise for me and I hope to do some dancing instruction as I get better.  

Our mission is to provide fun and memorable culinary experiences by creating deliciously fun cooking classes. We will create a theme menu and you will help prepare the meals. This will be a great opportunity to meet new people and expand your repertoire. We will meet at a home in San Francisco, have a drink and hors d'œuvre before diving in to cooking and preparing the meal. Some of the more time consuming dishes will be prepared 40-60% ahead of time. Ingredients and equipments are provided and …

NOTICE: As of 11/7/11, this Meetup group (formerly known as 'Creative Cooks') is under New Management. Greetings Bay Area Creative Cooking Enthusiasts!   Do you love to cook gourmet dishes, or just wish you knew how to cook? Maybe you have (or, maybe you haven't before) traveled to places like Indonesia, South Korea, Philippines, Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Iran, France, Russia, Columbia, Jamaica, or Alabama, but wish you could taste some of these and other authentic foods right in your own back y …

A friendly and inviting group of neighborhood locals looking to expand their culinary skills, learn about unique cultural dishes, enjoy good food and wine, and get to know more people living both in SOMA and throughout the city. The SF Social-Cooking series is a casual and cozy workshop that will feature a guest chef from local restaurants spanning a wide array of ethnic cuisines, unique wines or exotic desserts, all in support of local businesses. The environment is casual and will foll …

If you like to cook or want to learn and want to have fun doing it with like-minded people; then this is the meetup for you. If you watch the Cooking Channel, Food Network, America's Test Kitchen, Julia, Jacques...you are a Culinary Addict, If you read Food and Wine, Bon Appétit, Food Arts, Cooks Illustrated you are a Culinary Addict...If those magazine pages, worn recipes torn from newspapers, and pages of your cookbooks are stained and smeared from use...then this group is for you. If you want …

Want to learn how to cook like a pro and make it look easy? Let me show you how! I am a professional chef who has worked at some of the finest restaurants in San Francisco. You need no prior cooking knowledge and will have a completely hands-on experience. Classes will be small and tailored to your specific level of skill. Here are some of the things you will learn: > Create a four-course menu and execute it. - Learn how to design and execute a menu and look good doing it. > Knife …

Chef Steve facilitates and organizes theme cooking parties at members homes and businesses from San Jose to San Francisco. Everybody participates in the cooking and enjoyment of good food. The sessions are both informative and entertaining. As a restaurateur and educator world traveler Chef Steve introduces the culture of the cuisine along with the gastronomy.  He has taught classes at Sur La Table, Byington Winery, Thomas Fogarty Winery, and is a guest chef at Apple Computers and Stanford Unive …

… * We try  Offer: 4-10 different outdoor/indoor/seminar fitness/ social/ personal self improvement/ cooking/nutrition events per month. All events are geared towards improving ones social, emotional and physical health. What you get: Hang out with cool people, while getting in shape, feeling great, and having fun Walk/run/hike/blade/Yoga. Experience the Power of GROUP MOTIVATION! Challenge yourself or just get out at SF/Peninsula parks, places and landmarks. Healthy Cooking Classes as well! …

What food inspires passion and excitement in your? If you say, "chocolate," then this is the Meetup group for you. Meet with people who love chocolate? eating it, tasting it, trying it, cooking with it, and living with really great chocolate. Come to chocolate salons, chocolate tastings, wine events, cooking classes, chef demos, book signings (The Chocolate Guide, 2008), and other tasty stuff.

Hello! Please read this whole description before deciding whether or not to join.  Thanks :) Do you love dinner parties with girlfriends, cooking, socializing, and ending the night relaxing to a nice movie? Then this group is for you! We'll meet to have dinner potlucks rotating at different women's homes on the Peninsula - That way we get to prepare something each time to contribute. And after enjoying our meal and socializing, we'll relax to perhaps some hot chocolate or wine while …

Hey there, I've always been into dinner parties, sharing my kitchen, teaching cool cooking stuff, enjoying great wines, and making friends. I used to run a restaurant on my yacht a few years back, and found it very satisfying, so the idea I am developing here will be a hybrid of my passion and my experience. The goal here is to have dinner parties where we create a theme dinner, then you all can decide the level of involvement you want, from shopping, setting up, working in the kitchen, opening …

PopUpEdu is a series of underground classes centered on food, wine, spirits, and beer. You'll learn everything that you missed out on after you left grade school Home Ec and entered the real world. The Bay Area's top bartenders, chefs, wine makers, brewers, and craft distillers will be at your fingertips in remote locations for a series of education courses where you will get schooled on everything from pre-prohibition era cocktails to gluten free cooking.

… Healthy Cooking Classes as well! CURRENT and UPCOMING EVENTS: Healthy Cooking Dim Sum Classes in a lovely inviting San Mateo home by individual approval, Local Hiking events (most popular), Sat/Sun 3 fitness challenge, Chrissy Field over GG bridge walks, AM bootcamps, Yoga bootcamps at the Ferry BLD in SF , local 5k marathons, inline skating, hikes, early evening walks in SAN MATEO co., Hillsborough morning and evening walks, Adventure Race competition, "Muddy Buddy".... and more! Events …

This is a meetup for women who appreciate beer and want to brew it. Brewing has predominately been considered a male undertaking. The oldest written document is a Sumerian Clay tablet. It is a recipe for beer. Beer is made up of the same ingredients for bread and everything needed was found in any kitchen of that age. It was women who brewed the beer. They had a goddess, her name was NinKasi. She was a brewmaster. For over a millenium and centuries after, women continued to brew beer. Women entr …

Yoga Raw Radiant Temple is a wonderful integrative approach through ancient wisdom of Yoga and Raw Natural Living Style to radiant health, beauty of your body, happiness, self-understanding, and opening of your potentials! Transformation that yoga brings makes you more yourself, and opens you up to loving with greater depth. Transformation that occurs during Raw Living Diet brings you back to a basic, healthy and organic way of life that energies your body and connects you to your true self. Eve …