Fennel Cooking Studio
Fennel Cooking Studio is a teaching kitchen and community space offering cooking classes, dinner parties, private events, and more, all with the goal of getting folks excited about food.
Fennel was built on founder Jackie Price’s passion for teaching people how to cook and breaking down barriers to delicious food. Classes are open to students of all cooking ability levels and focus on building kitchen skills that transform cooking from a stressful, daunting chore into a creative, joyful, and empowering process.
Jackie Price, Founder
Jackie Price MS, RD, LD is a chef, culinary instructor, and registered dietitian. She grew up in the Washington D.C. area, where by the age of 13, she was meal planning and cooking all of her family’s meals, interning at area restaurants, and wishing for chef’s knives as birthday gifts. She studied Culinary Arts and Nutrition at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI, where she worked as a teaching assistant and built her love of teaching others how to cook. Jackie made her way to Saint Louis, MO to become a registered dietitian and earn her Master’s Degree in Nutrition and Culinary Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University. After completing graduate school, she fell in love with the culinary community in Saint Louis (and her wife, Beth), and made the city her home.
Jackie worked as a freelance recipe developer, pastry chef, and school lunch program manager before honing her teaching skills as a culinary instructor in SLU’s Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, where she still teaches undergraduate culinary classes as adjunct faculty. Jackie launched Fennel Cooking Studio with the dream of creating a community kitchen where cooking classes, dinner parties, and other events could bring people together through delicious food.