Julia Vysotskaya's Culinary Studio is a unique and the only site of its kind in Moscow. The studio has all the necessary equipment for various formats of culinary classes, master classes, corporate events and celebrations. The European counterpart of the studio is the Jamie Oliver schools in the UK. The culinary studio is very popular, most of the classes and master classes are fully redeemed a week in advance.

The main difference between Yulia Vysotskaya's Studio is that each guest prepares the dish from beginning to end independently under the guidance of the chef. The studio has 42 fully equipped workstations in two classrooms. Each guest has his own set of dishes, appliances, accessories, products. The chef's table is located in the center of the studio, all workplaces are set up so that guests can clearly see everything that the chef is doing. The studio also has video cameras with video output to plasma, audio equipment, studio lighting.

In her cozy studio, Yulia Vysotskaya will not only cook breakfast, but together with invited experts and friends, she will give practical advice and offer solutions to many family and everyday problems.

The program will become a kind of navigator for women, which will help them find a reference point in the rapidly changing modern world.

Julia Vysotskaya

Born on August 16, 1973 in Novocherkassk. Graduated from the acting department of the Belarusian Academy of Arts and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She worked at the Belarusian National Theater. Yanka Kupala. Awarded the award for the leading role in the play "Look Back in Anger" based on John Osborne. Julia played the main roles in "Nameless Star", "Bald Singer" and other performances. She starred in the films: "To go and not to return", "Imagination", "House of Fools", "Lion in Winter", "Max". The wife of film director Andrei Konchalovsky. Julia loves to cook. Julia cooked her first dish at the age of six: she immediately mixed all the products that were listed in the recipe, and baked a cake for mom. It turned out to be a little edible brick, but Yulia's mother assured that the cake was a success. Julia is very grateful to her parents for not scolding her daughter for spoiled food, because then she would have lost all desire to cook.

Since September 2003, Yulia Vysotskaya is the host of the entertaining culinary program "

In Moscow, every few months, new culinary schools or courses for non-professionals are opening, in almost every restaurant on weekends they teach how to cook something correctly, and new cafes and restaurants are building open kitchens for themselves: today everyone wants to cook. The Village continues a series of reports from different culinary schools in order to understand who wants to learn how to cook and why today.

In every country there is an image of a kind of ideal housewife - a woman in whom all the virtues come together to amaze and at the same time infuriate others. America is dominated by Martha Stewart, an energetic blonde under 50 who is a masterful cook, home furnishing, origami folding, business and tax evasion. In Russia, this set is not enough, you still need to be an actress, with children and a cult husband-director. Yulia Vysotskaya in the field of gastronomy has gone from culinary programs to her own restaurant and the post of editor-in-chief in the KhlebSol magazine. The logical continuation of this series of achievements was the opening of the Julia Vysotskaya culinary studio on Pravdy Street. The studio is located in the right wing of the former house of culture, classes are held several times a week under the guidance of brand chefs, Yornik's chef or Julia herself, or together with her daughter Marusya. On the latter, they say, there is a large recording, so everything has to be done in two stages.

« In every country there is an image of an ideal housewife - a woman in whom all virtues come together to amaze
and at the same time enrage others»

I chose a master class timed to coincide with Valentine's Day, it was only necessary to come to it together. Such pair lessons will be held in the studio on a regular basis. To preserve the intrigue, I take with me my old friend Zhenya, with whom I am not afraid to go even on reconnaissance. In addition to us, two more well-dressed couples under 35 have become interested in aphrodisiacs and teamwork: a local photographer with their favorite model and an older couple, who have at least 10 years of marriage behind them.

From the very first minutes it becomes clear that the studio organizers took into account all the disadvantages of competing schools. Let's start with the fact that finally each participant (or couple) gets a separate workplace with their own dishes, stove and refrigerator. This allows you to prepare each dish from start to finish. The chef-moderator Anton has planned two hot dishes, a dessert and a surprise. It is necessary to meet at three o'clock, therefore, so that the students do not lag behind, two assistants run around the hall. You have to work so quickly that there is simply no time to comment or ask questions.

"Necessary to arrange future ravioli, that is, to decide whether it will be rhombuses, triangles or hearts, which for some reason are cut mainly by men»

An hour and a half has passed since the beginning of the master class, and the couples still have not expressed their voice, except, perhaps, the cheerful woman opposite, who has transferred all the initiative into the hands of her husband and is resting, eating the apples left over from the fruit sauce. On the stove next to the quail, water is boiling in a large saucepan; soon it will be necessary to pour olive oil there (there are three types of sponsor bottles on the table) and put ravioli. But it’s not time to relax. Ahead - pears in wine.

"U men are indignant at this: They are forced to work, but you cannot drink wine, pears, you see, are more needed»

And when two and a half hours have passed and, it would seem, is the time to sit down and start getting to know each other, the chef announces that he has prepared heart-shaped cookies for everyone, which must first be poured with orange icing (which is prepared on the spot), and then decorated with stars and edible inscriptions. Well, and then take pictures with their works. This three-hour marathon showed that men, in principle, are more tenacious, since they have time to properly serve all the dishes, when women have already lost their enthusiasm along with a manicure.

At parting, the presenter gives all the girls red roses and recipe books, and then helps to pack the rest of the food with him in plastic containers (a nice detail that other culinary schools did not get their hands on).

"U men have time to properly serve all the dishes when women have already lost
enthusiasm along with manicure»

The bottom line is a bunch of delicious food that you can't eat up, and an old friend who is somewhat dumbfounded by the amount of information. At a common table decorated with candles, everyone eats in silence, but everyone will remember this Valentine's Day for a long time. Far-sighted women, of course, would hardly dare to cook so many dishes, they would rather prefer lace underwear and a bottle of champagne. But cooking together at the pace of the march for a change is very useful.