Essen is a recreational cooking school based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that provides demonstration and hands-on classes for the home cook. The interactive classes are fun, intimate and mind expanding and focus on how to bring delicious, seasonal, and homemade food into our crazy busy lives.

Classes are led by Betsey Gerstein Sterenfeld, who brings her life-long passion and commitment of wellness, food planning and preparation, and bringing people together to Essen.