Chef Kevin Chassi will demonstrate how to create flavorful meat and vegetarian tacos for your upcoming summer soirée. This taco class is mostly demonstration, but will include the hands-onmaking of homemade tortillas, using fresh masa harina. Chef Kevin will show how to prepare and cook carnitasusing local pork. While the meat is cooking slow and […]

Explore the many flavors and uses of fresh herbs from root to leaf with James Beard award-winning cookbook author Sarah Owens. Guests will receive tips on how to grow, purchase, store, and use an array of fresh herbs from the herbaceous chervil to the woodsy sage. Each guest will go home with a jar of […]

In this workshop, 12 lucky guests learn how to incorporate the bounty of the seasons into home baking with James Beard award-winning author, professional baker, and horticulturist Sarah Owens. Students will learn what edible flowers (both foraged and cultivated) are in season and how to both decorate and preserve them for use on cakes and […]

Falafel is that delectable and much-loved Middle Eastern street food that creates true craving once you tasted it. Serge Madikians is famous for his falafel which is among the most popular appetizers at his restaurant Serevan, nearby our teaching kitchens in the Hudson Valley-Berkshires area (though traditionally it makes an entire meal). Attendees will participate […]

Just in time for Summer, Olivia Krywucki will teach a demonstration class featuring pies (savory and sweet) plus the perfect accompaniments for the ultimate picnic. In this class you will learn the fundamentals of making the flakiest, most reliable, undeniably delicious and beautiful-to-look-at pie crust. That technique will go into a deep-dish pie, plus savory […]

Join us in our first Friday Night Supper Club, where we celebrate great food, both in the making and in the eating. Limited to just 6 people, this event will take place in our upstairs kitchen and dining room right here in the Hudson Valley-Berkshires. Come and participate in a brief cooking class before dinner, […]

There are all sorts of foods that qualify as pancakes and waffles, most of which Americans don’t readily think of when hearing those words. Of course, we have traditional (and delicious) American pancakes and waffles which we will make in class, but Olivia will take this topic beyond the familiar to explore a whole world […]

Oaxaca is famous for its Mole and in this demonstration class you’ll learn to make a rich and authentic Red Mole that will accompany our grilled lunch. Kathleen learned these recipes from her Mexican aunt and has studied extensively in Mexico the secrets of various reginal cuisines there. She is an expert on the endless […]