Past Events

One of the best tableware chain stores - Promenu, which includes 26 stores across Ukraine, invited us to conduct a series of cooking master classes. Promenu not only sells goods, but also gives new knowledge and delicious emotions. Clients of the network are people who like to cook with the help of beautiful, high-quality and convenient cookware. Very often there are new items from the world of tableware and cookware in the stores, and it’s not always easy to understand…

Together with our students, we have long wanted to learn how to distinguish good olive oil from bad, and learn how to taste it. A friend of our school, the owner of the Mana Gea, Leonid Tereshchenko organized classic olive oil tasting for us, and told us about the criteria for evaluating the quality of the oil. Extra virgin olive oil Mana Gea is made from Kalamata olives from Monemvasia, in the south-east of Greece. But what is a cooking…

One of the best tableware chain stores - Promenu, which includes 26 stores across Ukraine, invited us to conduct a series of cooking master classes. Clients of the network are people who like to cook with the help of beautiful, high-quality and convenient cookware. Very often there are new items from the world of tableware and cookware in the stores, and it’s not always easy to understand how they work without the help of professionals. During the second lesson, we…

Food unites. When people share a meal energy exchange occurs among them. Food brings people together. When a large company cooks dinner together, and then share it at the common - this is work for a team in unusual conditions. It helps to get to know your colleagues better, for new people to quickly join the team, and for someone to break stereotypes about themselves. We are very pleased that the Marfin Bank project team has chosen our school for…

During the second lesson with our friend, director of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture - Odessa, Sofronis Paradisopoulos, we cooked: the ancestor of famous Odessa aubergine dip - melitzanosalata, Santorini specialty fava, grilled octopus and the famous Greek moussaka. In Greece, before cooking a freshly caught octopus, it is carefully beaten on coastal stones so that it become soft. Although the sea is only a few steps from our school, we decided not to “scare” people on the seashore. Chef…

Odessa was built as a multinational city. Greeks played an important role in its shaping. Few people know a movement that later liberated Greece from the Ottoman empire started in Odessa. That is why a branch of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture was opened in Odessa. Its director, Sofronis Paradisopoulos, became a guest of our cooking school. Sofronis Paradisopoulos loves to cook and, despite the fact that he lives far from his homeland, follows his traditions and gastronomic habits. Every…

One of the best tableware chain stores - Promenu, which includes 26 stores across Ukraine, invited us to conduct a series of cooking master classes. Clients of the network are people who like to cook with the help of beautiful, high-quality and convenient cookware. Very often there are new items from the world of tableware and cookware in the stores, and it’s not always easy to understand how they work without the help of professionals. The first master class was…

Although we usually don’t repeat classes in our school, and we always try to show and teach you something new, there were so many people who wanted to get to Veronika Pavlyutina’s lesson, we decided to hold it once again. She quit a successful career for the sake of her beloved business, went to study with French pastry chefs to open her dream confectionery at the heart of Odessa. For the lesson Veronica came up with a menu of simple…

What girl does not like to treat herself with sweets? And what if one of our students is the pastry chef and the owner of Plyushkin cafe? We had only one answer: we decided to do pastry lessons together with Veronika Pavlitina, a woman who gave up a successful career for the sake of her favourite hobby and opened a confectionery. During the lesson Veronica taught us how to make dough for muffins, use a pastry bag and special muffin…

On April 10, 2011, “My Friends” cooking school has opened its doors for the first time. It became the first in Odessa and the second in Ukraine cooking school. It was a time when we decided to "step into the unknown", to start doing something completely new, although people in Odessa did not need such a pastime as cooking lessons at that time. Despite all the risks, we were driven by our love of food in all its manifestations: cooking,…