Using Spices to Enliven Your Cooking with Mimi Beaven

Understanding spices can broaden your cooking in surprising ways. Join us as we fearlessly delve into the world of spices in this special class led by Mimi Beaven. Spice, by the way, doesn’t always mean hot spicy heat, so fear not! Once you understand the basic properties of various spices, your world and your senses, will open up. Whether you are looking to explore middle eastern, north African, Mediterranean or any number of spice profiles, this class will help guide you into exciting culinary worlds.

Besides learning, and tasting, the different ways spices can enhance your cooking, we will make our own spice mixes together. Spice rubs are an ideal way to add flavor and change the direction of your food. As summer begins, you’ll love how these rubs enhance warm weather meals. Ingredients like meat, fish and poultry are easily transformed using different spice combinations, and you can also use spices with vegetables in a multitude of ways. This is just a bit of what Mimi will address in this class.

While Mimi cooks we will talk a little about the historical spice routes and how they influenced different cuisines. Each student will create two custom spice rubs to take away, and you will get to taste everything made in the class, including steelhead trout and chicken with different spice mixes and rubs, vegetables and dips using spice, and we’ll finish it off with a pain d’epices – a French spice cake.

This part demonstration, part hands-on workshop is limited to ten people.

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About Mimi Beaven

Mimi grew up surrounded by French and English food as her parents had a restaurant in the Cotswolds, England and her grandparents and French family had restaurants in Lyon, France. After studying Agriculture, she started working front of house in restaurants and then raised two daughters with her husband Richard. After moving to the US in 2002 and then having a house in Ghent from 2005 Mimi cooked more and more. Richard and Mimi founded and built Made in Ghent at Little Ghent Farm in 2014 and operated it successfully until 2021. They had a loyal following who loved Mimi’s bread, cakes, soups and preserves along with the pork, chicken, and eggs they raised on the farm.

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.

This is one of more than 30 events that are part of The Workshop Experience Weekend, Jun 3-4, 2023, in and around Hillsdale, NY. Join us to learn from experts in crafting, cooking, nature, gardening, floristry, textile arts and more. Browse the entire program, or visit TheWorkshopExperience.org.