Summer Fruit Extravaganza with Miriam Rubin

Some of summer’s sweetest, juiciest fruits will be starring in this new class hosted by chef Miriam Rubin and HGS Home Chef proprietor Matthew White. Fruit will fly as Miriam prepares your lunch of Watermelon-Cucumber Soup and a gorgeous fruit salad with a ginger-spiked dressing. Miriam will then teach you the secret of the perfect Crème Anglais followed by Matthew composing the the show stopping dessert, summer’s most spectacular (and easiest) creation: Summer Fruit Trifle. This elegant dessert is be perfect to serve at your next summer celebration. And yes, we’ll share some shortcuts that won’t heat up the kitchen. Please join us.

Menu to include:

• Watermelon-Cucumber Soup
• Ginger-Spiked Fruit Salad
• Summer Fruit Trifle

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This demonstration class (plus lunch) is limited to ten 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 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.