Established in April 2003, Young Chefs Academy offers cooking classes to children in a safe environment that encourages discovery and creativity. While learning food preparation skills is the main ingredient at YCA, each class adds a heap of kitchen safety, a scoop of etiquette, a handful of table setting, a pinch of menu planning, and laughter to taste.

Julie Fabing Burleson and Suzy Vinson Nettles, founders of YCA, believe this is the perfect recipe for showing children cooking is a lifelong skill that can be artistic, creative, and sometimes quite surprising. Suzy has commented, "this is the place where 'what if' collides with, 'look at this!'" Their kid-friendly classroom provides a "real" setting so that the students can use what they learn in their own homes.

Nettles & Burleson have taken their cooking school from one location and turned it into one of the fastest growing children's concepts in the country. "The kitchen is the pulse of the home... where we learn about life and each other," says Burleson. Young Chefs Academy nourishes those values and gives kids an innovative environment to thrive. In this busy world, what could be better?