Park Shore Country Day Camp now has
Culinary Classes for the Aspiring Chef!
| Park Shore is proud to announce that Chef Paula from Cooking With Stars will bring her innovative culinary program to Park Shore for the Summer of 2019. Cooking With Stars at Park Shore is a morning program offering themed two-week sessions for aspiring chefs completing grades 1-5 as of this June. It will take place in the Culinary Cottage at Park Shore. |  |
According to Bob Budah, one of the owners of Park Shore and creator of Extreme STEAM Science Kids, “It is important for children to have opportunities to develop skills in critical thinking, collaborative teamwork, creativity and adaptability. After 10 years of successfully providing exciting and stimulating science programs for Park Shore and other camps and schools, he felt adding Cooking With Stars would be another exciting and unique way to enhance children’s life skills. Chef Paula shares the same passion to enrich children’s lives with her highly acclaimed cooking programs. As the world rapidly changes these skills will help children navigate through the future that awaits them.”
What Will Aspiring Chefs Learn and Experience?
Campers will explore the secrets of cooking and receive valuable insights into the culinary arts. Cooking With Stars at Park Shore is more than just learning how to cook – it’s a full program focused on skill development. Our culinary students will have the opportunity to learn and hone their skills in:
- Food Hygiene
- Mathematics of Measuring
- Food Chemistry
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Nutrition & Health
- Tools of the Week
Chef Paula especially loves how students in her after-school programs display confidence in the kitchen and open up their palates to new flavors and textures. Chef Paula says, “Parents are blown away that their kids are enjoying recipes containing asparagus, broccoli, black beans and tomatoes; ingredients they previously refused to eat at home. The students often report that their creations are the best thing they ever ate because our recipes are hands-on, fun to make, and great to share. We are bringing families together in the kitchen and around the dinner table. If we can achieve all of this in just one hour per week, we can do even more at Park Shore, working with the campers for three hours a day, five days a week. Get ready for an epic summer!”
 | Program Information Flexible Schedules: Choose 2, 4, 6 or 8 weeks! Extend Your Day: Spend the morning with Chef Paula and then extend your day to experience all of the AMAZING camp activities that Park Shore has to offer! Ages: Children completing 1st - 5th grade Easy Online Enrollment! |
Chef Paula Private Chef Specializing in Children’s Enrichment Programs |  |
Chef Paula Gottlieb Herman has three passions in life: family, food, and TV. She is a former NBC News Production Coordinator, Unit Manager, and Segment Producer for The Sunday Today Show and Weekend Today Show. She produced segments with Al Roker on some of the exotics like Japanese dishes of Fugu (Blowfish) and Wagyu (Hand-Massaged Kobe Beef), kept viewers up on the latest grilling techniques, kitchen gadgets, and more. Paula also coordinated some of the production elements for Martha Stewart’s and Paul Prudhomme’s cooking segments for The Today Show.
As a way to honor her parents’ memories, since 2005, she became a private chef and has been teaching kids to cook at award-winning birthday parties, after-school enrichment classes, summer camps, library programs, scouting events, and special needs workshops throughout Nassau and Suffolk.
Chef Paula’s work has been featured on Food Network’s Unwrapped, a video on FIOS Push Pause, TV interviews on Live It Up! with Donna Drake, Filmmakers Show, Looking to Make A Difference with Gail, Stage, Screen and In Between, radio interviews on Feast on This, Reach Out, articles in Westbury Times, Newsday, Patch.com, Long Island Parent, Nassau Parent, Suffolk Parent, Parents & Children, The Sag Harbor Express, and Long Island Mamas Network.
