Six Month Membership (2024)

Want to be more confident in the kitchen? Let's cook!JoinMarcia Smart in the kitchen. She'lltake 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 tobuildconfidence. You’ll go from stressed to master chef!

Register for awhole year ofDELICIOUS 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 andexecutedelicious, healthy, and satisfying meals.She can't wait to shareher monthlyrecipe classes, with lessons that will change your game in the kitchen.

What's Included:

• (6) Monthly Zoom cooking class
• Recipes galore!
• A video lesson library of cooking classes
• Knife skills lessons
• Kitchen equipment checklist
• Pantryessentials 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:

1. Purchase the gift just like any other product on The Dowry.
2. Check your email after you complete the purchase. You will receive an email witha coupon code for a 6-month membership.
3. Forward your confirmation email to the gift recipient.The email willcontain the coupon code and a link to set upa password for their membership.

And that's it. Your newly weds (or favorite chef) will be cooking in no time!

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 selfactualizationto 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.

Butthe aboveis 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 downitems 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'tfeel 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 newplace I discover more endless beauty, but also become moreaware of endless struggle and suffering. One of those daily sufferingswitnessed is thevictimization by cultural dowry practicestowardswomentoday.

Though the centuries-old custom has been outlawedit is still putting women and young girls at great risk today. The Dowryis 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.