Learn How to Cook Smarter with Martie from Sweet Basil Cullinary Center
Scott introduces us to Martie, from the Sweet Basil Culinary Center located at Pinnacle Peak in Pima. He believes the center, with its cooking classes and a range of kitchen gadgets, could be an appealing solution for people approaching retirement and looking for new hobbies. Martie gives Scott a tour, demonstrating a wide range of kitchen tools, including a revolutionary carrot peeler, garlic peeler, and an efficient garlic mincer. They then explore sections of the store dedicated to Southwest cuisine, breakfast items, and high-quality cookware. Martie introduces gourmet food items like sauces, marinades, pasta, gourmet chocolate, and a unique bread mix called Soberdough. She also showcases their cooking school, equipped with induction cooktops and ample seating for classes. The center offers private parties, cooking events, and even couples’ gourmet classes paired with wine. Scott emphasizes that cooking together could be a great communal experience, helping people to open up and bond.
About Scott Gaertner

Scott Gaertner
Since 1984 Scott’s real estate career has always been committed to exceptional results and his business philosophy has always been “If you want extraordinary results, find out what the ordinary do – and then don’t do it!” Consequently his career has been a trail of astonishing successes created from ground-breaking methods.
His first year in real estate selling new homes for a large builder, Scott sold 101 homes and became the first recipient of the Arizona Homebuilders Association’s “Most Net Units Sold Award.” The Association created the award that year because they said nobody had ever heard of that many homes being sold in one year before! Later, due to his continued successes, he became the first recipient of the Homebuilder’s Association’s “Lifetime Achievement Award.”
In the resale home business, Scott continued his innovative trends by opening Scottsdale’s first real estate company devoted solely to representing real estate buyers. This pioneering event in 1990 was long before most had ever heard of the term “buyer’s agency” or considered buyer representation. After years of teaching classes and bringing much needed media exposure to the cause, buyer’s agency has become the accepted standard of practice. That cause complete, Scott moved on to a more traditional role with Keller Williams Northeast Realty. But of course, not in an ordinary way . . .
Shunning the conventional wisdom in resale real estate that says “Specialize in everything!” Scott adopted one small corner of the Scottsdale market to call his own. Using typically unconventional marketing methods and strategies, he became the dominant agent in one zip code of Scottsdale North. Dominant not only in numbers of sales, but in pricing successes for his clients.
By 2018, Scott’s techniques have proven so successful that he is now guaranteeing his results, and expanding his business to a much larger market in the North Valley.