Comfort-Food Soups with Miriam Rubin

Now that we have accepted that winter is truly here, let’s make soup!

In this class Miriam Rubin will teach three classics with a few sides. Rather than soup as a starter, this demonstration class treats soup as the main course it deserves to be. What’s better than tomato soup with a cheesy side, or chili and cast-iron skillet cornbread? And we simply cannot talk soups without learning how to make a comforting chicken soup that heals all woes. Miriam will teach how to make a quick chicken soup using easy-peasy homemade stock, and you’ll get two extra recipes for chicken soups to expand your soup repertoire.

So join us in our Hudson Valley-Berkshires kitchen, where we’ll eat everything made in the class. Come hungry!

Menu to include:

• Tomato Soup & Toasted Cheese
• Firehouse Chili & Cast-Iron Skillet Cornbread
• Quick & Savory Chicken Soup (with two bonus recipes)

This demonstration class is limited to 12 people.

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 will receive credit and may register for another class of equal value held within the subsequent two months.

Notes: Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware purchases on class day. Classes are geared to adults unless otherwise noted. However, children 9 and over are welcome to attend this special baking class with an accompanying adult.