For Young Chefs Summer Camps

For Young Chefs Summer Camps focuses on hands-on cooking, where participants learn how to cook, do mise en place, read recipes, and practice knife skills. The program includes learning the importance of good ingredients and creating delicious balanced meals, with the kitchen becoming a classroom during camp sessions.

• Ages: 10–16 years old
• Schedule: 9:30 am – 2 pm
• Price: $ 649.00 per week | Includes all ingredients, apron, hands on instruction, recipe book & of course lunch

For Young Chefs Summer Camps offers NEW flavors, NEW recipes every session, NEW techniques, a 4 courses meal, vegetarian menus, and gluten free substitutions available. Each session is coed, held in small groups, and includes hands-on instruction, with all ingredients, an apron, a recipe book, and lunch included. The camp runs as a weekly Around-the-World series, and a minimum of 9 campers are needed for camps to take place. The program is described as a culinary unforgettable experience for kids 9–15 and 16 years older, and Chef Palma inspires kids from all genres to cook, create and nourish themselves in a fun and delicious way.

Chef Palma (Palma Bellinghieri) leads the program as a second-generation culinary artist and chef, and she is the daughter of world-renowned Sicilian born chef and Mexico City restaurateur Alfredo Bellinghieri, creator of the Original Fettucine Alfredo at “Alfredos” in the Zona Rosa. She was born and raised in Mexico City and is a graduate of the Villa Pierrefeux Institute and Centre International de Glion, Hotel Management School in Montreaux, Switzerland. For the past 18 years, Chef Palma has specialized in vegetarian cooking.

The mission of For Young Chefs Summer Camps states that for young chefs the kitchen becomes a classroom, where curiosity learns discipline and becomes intention as creativity finds its hands, and that through knife skills students grow steadier, focus deepens, and cooking turns into a quiet lesson in care, patience, and pride. Through its foundation, the program invites families to help transform the lives of children and teenagers across the border through the art of music and to donate instruments to the Symphony of San Felipe, Baja California.

Participants have shared that “It was awesome cutting, pouring, mixing and squeezing!! I learned to cut things in many different ways!” (Sam, 13). Another camper said, “I loved this program, it was a ton of fun and I learned a lot of things. I liked that we all participated in everything and all got to switch areas (chopping, BBQ, hot area, cold table), I can’t wait to come back next summer!” (Kacey, 11). A third camper shared, “I really enjoyed learning about many types of food. I liked how we had our own aeons and binders that contained every recipe for every dish we made. The class was not huge but also wasn’t extremely small. I liked learning everything…but my favorite part of the program was making the Flan Caramel of course!!” (Anastasia, 13).

Last updated June 14, 2026.