Celebrating Fall Fruit with Miriam Rubin

Fall’s comforting flavors of apples, pears and sweet spices take center stage in this demonstration cooking class led by chef Miriam Rubin. First, she’ll show how to create an Italian-style freeform tart, known as a crostata, but this one has the all-American flavors of crisp apples, spices and a super easy cheddar cheese crust. While the crostata bakes, Miriam will roast some pears with wine, honey, and aromatic spices to make a truly elegant dessert you’ll want to recreate at home. Then Miriam will create a batch of tender, flaky hand-formed pear, vanilla, and nutmeg cream scones. Just the thing to make when friends drop in for brunch or afternoon tea. For counterpoint, we’ll enjoy a fresh autumn fruit salad and eat together. Miriam will share which pears and apples work best for each purpose and point out some of her favorite varieties.

Menu to include:

• Hudson Valley Apple Crostata with Cheddar Crust
• Pear & Nutmeg Cream Scones
• Roasted Autumn Pears with Honey & Sweet Spice
• Autumn Fruit Salad

This demonstration class is limited to ten people.

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About Miriam Rubin:

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Miriam was the first woman in the kitchens of NYC’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. She’s a former food editor of Weight Watchers Magazine. Her first cookbook, Grains, was published in 1995. For nine years, she wrote a food and garden column “Miriam’s Garden” for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has contributed features to their food pages for about two decades.

Her work has appeared in Prevention, Organic Gardening, Redbook, Working Woman, Working Mother and Woman’s Day. She was line-editor for Gil Marks’ Encyclopedia of Jewish Food and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Appalachia and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink Vol. 2. She’s Americanized several cookbooks and reworked and Americanized British recipes for websites.

Her book, Tomatoes, grew out of a love of planting and devouring a favorite vegetable (fruit). She presented on the book at the Harvest Festival at Monticello and at Beard on Books at the Beard House. Miriam and her husband have recently relocated to the Hudson Valley from Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets. Persons who notify us at least seven (7) days in advance that they cannot attend may receive credit and register for another class of equal value held within the subsequent two months if a class is available.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY – at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.