About
Summer Culinary is a cooking summer camp where teens spend their days in the kitchen cooking, plating, and working with sauces and glazes. Participants practice knife use and make over 100 recipes from scratch, including appetizers, entrees, and desserts. The program also includes curated tours and fun activities in the evenings, as well as cooking competitions leading up to next summer and Zoom Q+A sessions.
• Ages: 12–17 years old
• Schedule: In the kitchen from 10am–6pm every day
Instructors at Summer Culinary are professional chefs. The program describes itself as a premier cooking summer camp for teens who are serious about learning to cook regardless of their skill level and states that it is open to all students between the ages 12–17, with experience suggested but not required and a love of food and a desire to learn culinary arts as the biggest requirement. It offers day or residential options, with students making, creating, and enjoying their own lunches and dinners and a special emphasis on plating and presentation. The program describes itself as a first-class sleepaway and day cooking camp for ages 12–17, with cooking camp locations nationwide, and refers to itself as the biggest and best cooking camp, baking camp summer camp in the USA and America’s Top Cooking Summer Camp. Families can also receive a free recipe every month via the program’s newsletter.
Parent and student feedback includes a 2022 parent who said the camp changed their son’s life for the better and noted welcoming and supportive adults and students, evening activities, and that their child attended one week in ATX and wanted to return for two weeks and possibly travel to NYC or LA. A 2025 parent survey response states that the program is teaching young students how to cook and important life skills like independence and building friendships. A student testimonial from Nicole, age 14 from Chicago, IL, says her favorite thing about campusNYC was making delicious food all day, every day and connecting with people who have the same interests.
Last updated March 26, 2026.
• Ages: 12–17 years old
• Schedule: In the kitchen from 10am–6pm every day
Instructors at Summer Culinary are professional chefs. The program describes itself as a premier cooking summer camp for teens who are serious about learning to cook regardless of their skill level and states that it is open to all students between the ages 12–17, with experience suggested but not required and a love of food and a desire to learn culinary arts as the biggest requirement. It offers day or residential options, with students making, creating, and enjoying their own lunches and dinners and a special emphasis on plating and presentation. The program describes itself as a first-class sleepaway and day cooking camp for ages 12–17, with cooking camp locations nationwide, and refers to itself as the biggest and best cooking camp, baking camp summer camp in the USA and America’s Top Cooking Summer Camp. Families can also receive a free recipe every month via the program’s newsletter.
Parent and student feedback includes a 2022 parent who said the camp changed their son’s life for the better and noted welcoming and supportive adults and students, evening activities, and that their child attended one week in ATX and wanted to return for two weeks and possibly travel to NYC or LA. A 2025 parent survey response states that the program is teaching young students how to cook and important life skills like independence and building friendships. A student testimonial from Nicole, age 14 from Chicago, IL, says her favorite thing about campusNYC was making delicious food all day, every day and connecting with people who have the same interests.
Last updated March 26, 2026.
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