Join accomplished knife-wielder Matthew White, owner of HGS Home Chef, in his HANDS-ON knife skills workshop. Matthew will show how to attack a variety of vegetables and fruits skillfully and safely with a knife - then we’ll practice together. The results of your handiwork will go into a sauté pan along with fresh salmon to […]

Join Tess Kelly, freshly back from teaching a series of cooking classes in her beloved France as she brings her favorite French dishes to our kitchen at HGS Home Chef. In this class Tess will share secrets of The Tart – both savory and sweet. (Spoiler alert, it’s going to be yummy.) Tess will demonstrate […]

  Latke lovers! Join food writer, chef, and cookbook author Miriam Rubin for a demonstration class exploring delicious fried potato pancakes. Are latkes only made with white potatoes? No! We’ll make the classic, of course, but will also learn a fabulous sweet potato version, plus a riff on the standard, adding sautéed spinach and carrots […]

Gnocchi is often a misunderstood Italian dish on this side of the ocean. Some feel it can be heavy, or flavorless, but that’s only because they haven’t had this wonderful Italian food done the proper way. Enter Sylvia Becker to show us how it’s done. Great gnocchi are light, pillowy dumplings consisting of egg, potato, […]

Have you had enough turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie? Join Chef King Phonjanakong in our kitchen on Thanksgiving Saturday as he demonstrates and teaches the basics of classic Thai cooking from the land of his father. On the menu will be: Classic Thai Stir Fry with Chicken, Tofu, Basil and Chilies Veggie Pad Thai Sautéed […]

Tess Kelly spent the summer teaching cooking classes in France and is happy to be home in the Hudson Valley just in time to start holiday baking. And what a delectable class she has concocted for you! In this special pre-holiday baking class you’ll learn to make four classically French, small-bite sweets. Included in this […]

In this partially hands-on class, Miriam Rubin will teach how to make Grandma Rubin’s delicate, delicious, sweet cheese blintzes. Learn the simple batter and the technique to make beautifully thin crepes. These crepes will then be filled and rolled up before sauteing in butter until just brown and warmed through. To spoon atop the blintzes, […]

What do steamed fish, egg dumplings, and savory sticky rice cakes have in common? They’re all symbols of prosperity. The Chinese culture is full of symbolic representations in literature, arts and, of course, food. It’s important for the family’s Chinese New Year dinner to include dishes with as many of these auspicious symbols as possible. […]