About
Fiddleheads Cooking Studio offers kids cooking classes where children take part in hands-on cooking activities. The program includes private or group lessons at home, after-school programs, camps, workshops for parents and teachers, and birthday parties.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
Fiddleheads Cooking Studio was founded and is owned by Renana Shvil. Renana began her culinary career as a private chef in New York City and later became a preschool teacher after being invited to teach a preschool cooking class. She taught in a Montessori school for three years, as well as in after-school programs and camps, and she is a cooking instructor.
Fiddleheads Cooking Studio opened in 2016. In 2021, Renana launched her Grassroots Kitchen Program and restructured the business, and in 2022 the onsite teaching program grew.
The program’s mission is to offer kids cooking classes within a fun and educational environment that promotes food exploration, expands the taste buds, and teaches kids where food comes from by using seasonal ingredients. The mission also includes growing the next generation of food explorers and melding kitchen science and storytelling within cooking education.
The Grassroots Kitchen Program trains young adults about the impact of food choices on their body, community, and environment and empowers youth as advocates for healthy, sustainable eating practices. The program follows a mobile-centric model that brings food education directly to children in locations convenient to them, with an emphasis on healthy, sustainable eating practices. Students learn about sustainability and discuss healthy food options, and children are engaged in every step of the food preparation process with time and space to explore their food. Teachers are described as friendly and as working well with children.
One parent from Armonk reports that her son has been taking cooking classes with Fiddleheads for a couple of years, comes home excited to show what he made, and continues to sign up each semester, with his older sister planning to join. A parent from Scarsdale describes Renana as having incredible patience with her 8-year-old twins and their friends and says the children enjoy creating nutritious, interesting, fun, and tasty meals to serve to their parents. A curriculum coordinator from Luria Academy of Brooklyn states that Renana cooks innovative meals with children of different ages while teaching and facilitating educational experiences, opening up their creativity and imaginations and fostering independence and autonomy in young children. A Portchester parent shares that her 5-year-old started attending in fall 2023, enjoys cooking with different ingredients, especially when picking ingredients from a garden, and that they have already signed up for the winter session. A parent from Pound Ridge notes that their 11-year-old son loves the classes and that Renana and her team emphasize fresh, simple, healthy ingredients along with experimentation, discovery, and fun.
Last updated April 17, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
Fiddleheads Cooking Studio was founded and is owned by Renana Shvil. Renana began her culinary career as a private chef in New York City and later became a preschool teacher after being invited to teach a preschool cooking class. She taught in a Montessori school for three years, as well as in after-school programs and camps, and she is a cooking instructor.
Fiddleheads Cooking Studio opened in 2016. In 2021, Renana launched her Grassroots Kitchen Program and restructured the business, and in 2022 the onsite teaching program grew.
The program’s mission is to offer kids cooking classes within a fun and educational environment that promotes food exploration, expands the taste buds, and teaches kids where food comes from by using seasonal ingredients. The mission also includes growing the next generation of food explorers and melding kitchen science and storytelling within cooking education.
The Grassroots Kitchen Program trains young adults about the impact of food choices on their body, community, and environment and empowers youth as advocates for healthy, sustainable eating practices. The program follows a mobile-centric model that brings food education directly to children in locations convenient to them, with an emphasis on healthy, sustainable eating practices. Students learn about sustainability and discuss healthy food options, and children are engaged in every step of the food preparation process with time and space to explore their food. Teachers are described as friendly and as working well with children.
One parent from Armonk reports that her son has been taking cooking classes with Fiddleheads for a couple of years, comes home excited to show what he made, and continues to sign up each semester, with his older sister planning to join. A parent from Scarsdale describes Renana as having incredible patience with her 8-year-old twins and their friends and says the children enjoy creating nutritious, interesting, fun, and tasty meals to serve to their parents. A curriculum coordinator from Luria Academy of Brooklyn states that Renana cooks innovative meals with children of different ages while teaching and facilitating educational experiences, opening up their creativity and imaginations and fostering independence and autonomy in young children. A Portchester parent shares that her 5-year-old started attending in fall 2023, enjoys cooking with different ingredients, especially when picking ingredients from a garden, and that they have already signed up for the winter session. A parent from Pound Ridge notes that their 11-year-old son loves the classes and that Renana and her team emphasize fresh, simple, healthy ingredients along with experimentation, discovery, and fun.
Last updated April 17, 2026.
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