One Year Membership "Smart in the Kitchen" School
Want to be more confident in the kitchen? Let's cook! Join Marcia Smart in the kitchen. She'll take you on a journey to become a more confident and intuitive home cook.
Smart in the Kitchen School is an online destination for home cooks to learn knife skills, kitchen tips, cooking methods and techniques to build confidence. You’ll go from stressed to master chef!
Register for a whole year of DELICIOUS cooking classes and culinary instruction, presented in bite size pieces that you can watch live or on your own time. Marcia's goal is to help home cooks like you plan and execute delicious, healthy, and satisfying meals. She can't wait to share her monthly recipe classes, with lessons that will change your game in the kitchen.
What's Included:
- Monthly Zoom cooking class
- Recipes galore!
- A video lesson library of cooking classes
- Knife skills lessons
- Kitchen equipment checklist
- Pantry essentials checklist
- Printable meal planning pages
- Private Facebook community support and Q&A directly on the school site
- Direct communication with Marcia (post any questions and she'll get you answers ASAP)!
The membership includes access to a password-protected members only cooking school site full of knife skills videos, recorded cooking lessons, equipment checklists and recipes to download. There’s also a live cooking class once a month with a class recording shared to the site afterwards. New members are able to access all past recordings and recipes. Plus, members of the cooking school receive exclusive discounts to all my other online classes.
How your gift will be received:
- Purchase the gift just like any other product on The Dowry.
- Check your email after you complete the purchase. You will receive an email with a coupon code for a 1-year membership.
- Forward your confirmation email to the gift recipient. The email will contain the coupon code and a link to set up a password for their membership.
And that's it. Your newly weds (or favorite chef) will be cooking in no time!
Welcome to Smart in the Kitchen School.
Essence of The Dowry.
People and places have always been the essence of my life. I love waking up in the morning and going about my day surrounded by beautiful things in my home that nod to the people I love and places that have transformed me.
I consider it a triumphant gesture of self actualization to create a home that represents me, with the goal of inviting people into that space, to share who I am on a deeper level, and in turn getting to know them better.
But the above is not easy.
From curating a place that feels special and specific to sharing it with others, it can be challenging, expensive, and time consuming.
Trying to select unique household items for my 2007 wedding gift registry led only to frustration. I couldn’t seem to track down items that truly felt like home without investing a lot into the process.
The persistent trend.
Since then I have seen a persistent trend: we seek but seldom succeed to make our homes a complete representation of what we envision. An extension of our love, our friendships, our travels, our personalities, our memories.
Currently, wedding registries only offer couples mass-produced products from big-box retailers, resulting in cookie-cutter homes lacking originality. It doesn't feel personal or meaningful enough to earn a place on our shelves, atop our tables, or in our rooms.
I’m happy to introduce you to The Dowry.
An ethically-minded wedding gift registry and curated artisan marketplace. My intent is to design a business that refuses the notion of a one size fits all existence.
The Dowry marketplace empowers couples to build their wedding-gift registry from items exquisitely shaped, woven, painted, and imagined by hand-selected artisans. It’s an elite group of talent we are incredibly excited to share with you!
But why do we call ourselves The Dowry?
Traveling is more than a hobby to me. Each time I step foot in a new place I discover more endless beauty, but also become more aware of endless struggle and suffering. One of those daily sufferings witnessed is the victimization by cultural dowry practices towards women today.
Though the centuries-old custom has been outlawed it is still putting women and young girls at great risk today. The Dowry is named to provoke more conversations about this very real danger, ultimately turning our conversations into positive cultural change. The Dowry is committed to facilitating growth and independence for women and girls victimized by cultural dowry practices.