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- Creative Cooks
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298 Atlantic Ave., nr. Smith St., Boerum Hill; 718-237-2218
Chicken nuggets and sugar cookies have no place at Creative Cooks, a tidy Boerum Hill culinary school that takes full advantage of New York’s diverse ethnic fare�not to mention rampant foodie-ism. Designed for kids ages 3 through 13, the school expands beyond the usual introductions to baking and broiling to take field trips to food sources like a chocolate-maker in Marine Park, a tortilla factory in Williamsburg, or nearby butcher Paisano’s Meat Market. �We brought back an eel once from Fei Long Market in Sunset Park and cooked it up,� says founder Emily Rios. �Turns out boys like to eat eels.� Students pick out ingredients, then go to work preparing dishes like lumpia, churros con chocolate, and matzo balls. The kitchen is child-friendly, stocked with nylon lettuce knives, mini-aprons, and low-height faucets. After the course, each student gets a recipe booklet of everything he or she has cooked. Seventy-five-minute afternoon classes are held three times a week through the winter ($400 per twelve-week session); a summertime day camp runs from June to September ($550 a week).