About CookingLIVE

Bringing life to your dinner table since 2006, CookingLIVE was founded by Amanda Varnell in an effort to help the family do family better.  From the beginning our LIVE events have been more than just another cooking class.  They are a fusion of education, equipping and encouragement seasoned with laughter & love.   Cooking instructors/kitchen coaches/moms, Amanda Varnell and Sarah Hooper, bring a no nonsense approach to the weeknight dinner table offering affordable services for the everyday cook.

The CookingLIVE philosophy centers around the practice of hospitality.  Not perfection, but a practice.  Every worthwhile discipline takes intentional time & effort to develop and the practice of hospitality is no different.  But practice doesn’t have to equal painful! In fact, we take great care in making food planning, preparation & presentation accessible to weeknight cooks of every skill level.  The practice of hospitality isn’t complicated.  In fact, it can become as natural as breathing.  It is, according to Webster, the quality or disposition of receiving and treating family, friends, guests, & strangers in a warm, friendly, generous way.   People long to spend time in the presence of hospitable people.  And our goal at CookingLIVE  is to make your dinner table the most anticipated time of the day for you, your family & friends.

So pull up a chair and join us!  You know there is always room for just one more around the table!

xoxo

Amanda & Sarah

“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.  Give generously to God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.”    Romans 12:12-13