I highly recommend Sur La Table's cooking class
I just had my first cooking class with Sur La Table Palo Alto as a Christmas gift from my wife (which I asked for as I am retired and wanted to learn how to cook). It was a basics class for beginners like me (although they have more advanced classes too) and it was great fun as well as educational. Both the staff and my three cooking mates were very friendly, and we had fun collectively creating a great meal of seared steak with herbed butter, "truffled pommes puree" (truffled mashed potatoes), salad, and "the best chocolate chip cookies" many of which I took back to my family. The resulting meal was one I don't think you could buy in Palo Alto for the $99 price of the class (if only they had a license to add a nice red wine!). As a person who is best known for his toast I do expect to go back for another class or two. The only problem is that you may not have all the equipment to do all that they teach you...but I'm sure you can buy it from them. Anyway, it was a great experience, and I highly recommend it.