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There are a lot of reasons experiences make the best gifts. Whether it’s a best friend who already has everything they could want, or a significant other you struggle to shop for, a shared experience is an opportunity to spend quality time together and reinforce your bond. So why not give the gift of a homemade pasta cooking class, where you’ll get to enjoy a delicious meal and a memory that lasts even longer? 

Selecting the Perfect Cooking Class

Picking a cuisine and dish you’re already familiar with can help minimize the intimidation factor if you’re not an experienced cook. If you’re attending a class with someone in your life, consider their allergies and dietary restrictions. 

Bite Unite offers a 2.5 hour homemade pasta making classes at our New York and San Francisco locations. Not only will you master the art of making tagliatelle, you’ll get to finish off your three-course meal with a bruschetta starter and a divine tiramisu for dessert. If you live near one of our locations, this is the perfect cooking class to take your loved one to for their birthday.

Surprise Elements to Enhance the Experience

There’s nothing better than having someone else do the planning for your birthday. That’s a gift in itself! Consider surprising your loved one with a private cooking class with an intimate group of close friends. There’ll be no need to worry about catering or cleaning up your place before and after. You can keep the party going with after dinner drinks. Or, keep the party short for a busy group. There’ll be no need to politely hint at people that it’s time to leave when your social battery runs out, as there’s a designated end time.  

Beyond the Class: Extending the Experience

You can build on what you learn in a cooking class by recreating your meal at home. Turn it into a challenge by holding a friendly cooking competition at home, or by trying to make the recipes you learned from memory. Show off your new skills to friends and family by having them over for dinner, or challenge yourself by attending a class from a cuisine that’s new to you, like our Thai cooking class. 

Why Family Might Enjoy Giving Cooking Classes

Getting to cook with family members can bring up wonderful memories of the times you spent around the dinner table growing up. It’s a great opportunity to bring up food traditions within your family, and to mindfully spend time together doing something that is both fun and enriching. Whether it’s Thanksgiving dinner or the weekly barbecues your family used to have with your cousins, we all have special memories around food that can serve to bond us. 

A cooking class can also be an opportunity to start up new traditions. Perhaps you’ll want to take a new cooking class with your family every birthday, or simply make a commitment to getting together and sharing a home-cooked meal on a more regular basis. 

Why Couples Might Enjoy and Why Friends May Enjoy as Well

A homemade pasta cooking class can be an opportunity to bring some playfulness into your relationship. Pasta dough is essentially a delicious, edible play-doh. Embrace the fun of taking on a new, tactile activity with your romantic partner. Take this class with an old friend and it’s bound to make you feel nostalgic. Invite anyone you’re looking to have fun with! 

A homemade pasta cooking class is an opportunity to reconnect with the important people in your life. 

We’ve all gotten our fair share of monogrammed home goods and fuzzy socks as birthday presents. While any gift given from the heart is to be cherished, the memory of a new shared experience will outlast any material gift. 

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