Our cooking instructors come from a wide range of backgrounds from professional chefs and cookbook authors to passionate instructors. What they all have in common is the ability to create amazing dishes and explain to you, step-by-step how it’s done. Katy Kinsolving ticks all those boxes and after each class we revel in the deliciousness of her beautiful food.
Katy has taught cooking in Europe and the United States for over a decade and is co-author of Essential Flavors (Viking 1994). She is a blue-ribbon graduate of Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School (now the Institute of Culinary Education) and holds a certificate in health counselling from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She writes about sensible, delicious eating in her blog, Good Food Naturally. Katy has worked in special events, food public relations and in the test kitchens of major American food publications. She is active in conservation and sustainability issues in her community and has lived and eaten all over the world while raising two boys who eat (almost) anything.
Our kitchens are always buzzing with brilliant cooks taking us through exciting culinary explorations from the classic to the exotic, and Katy Kinsolving is a perfect addition to our stable of instructors.
Some of Katy’s upcoming classes:
Festive Breakfast Fare
Is it breakfast if you serve it at 2 pm? Katy doesn’t know, but her family eats this up when they are home for the holidays. No matter what you call it – breakfast, brunch or lunch, this menu is perfect for holiday or cold weather weekends with house guests or family. The dishes in this demonstration class are both familiar and homey, yet glamorously delicious!
Menu will include:
– Homemade turkey sausage
– Composed Winter salad
– Venetian bread pudding
– Citrus Melange
This demonstration class is limited to 12 people.
Holiday Desserts
What would the holidays be without a special dessert (or three)? Join us for a celebration of sweets that are festive and out-of-this-world scrumptious. From the British classic Sticky Toffee Pudding, to a divine Chocolate Double Layer Cake where the bottom layer is almond-y and chewy while the top layer is like a sunken chocolate-orange souffle. Yummmm! In this demonstration class you’ll learn the tricks to baking the following treats that are great any time of year.
Menu:
– Sticky Toffee Pudding
– Two tiered, Chocolate Almond Orange Cake
– Walnut Torte with Winter Fruit Compote
This demonstration class is limited to 12 people
Cleansing New Year’s Menu
Many of us like to start the New Year with a cleansing diet. Rather than subjecting your body to dietary punishment, Katy suggests adding more legumes and old-fashioned grains to your diet. Are lentils ever sexy? YES, when paired with pomegranates and feta, they are! Add diversity to your diet in 2019. Join this demonstration “lunch and learn” class and find out how to clean up your diet with never, ever giving up of great flavor.
Menu to include:
– Chicken Tagine with Preserved lemon and Olives
– Lentils with Feta and Pomegranate
– Deliciously Fluffy Millet
This demonstration class is limited to 12 people.