We started with tasting salts and sugars and we ended with spices and a brunch. The semester flew by and we had our last class this past Friday. We ended up combining two topics. I wanted to touch upon spices, show everyone how easy and economical it is to make a spice rub. By [...]
We had several non cooking classes after our class on Pasta. We were very lucky to have Ronna Kabatznick, the author of The Zen of Eating come and conduct a class. Ronna took us through the stages of mindful eating and posed some interesting questions for us to explore about our relationship with food. [...]
Last Friday the topic of the day was pasta. It's a great topic, one that everyone can participate in and like Pizza really get their hands in some dough. I chose two recipes. The first was Pasta Aglio Olio, a quick satisfying classic dish and the second was Spinach Pasta with Mushrooms and Fennel. [...]
And Class #5 Hmmmm....chocolate! Even the word sounds rich and round and satisfying. Chocolate came up frequently on the survey I sent to students before the cooking class began. We devoted one class to it, but in fact we could have devoted a whole semester to it. Chocolate is a very complex subject matter [...]
Class # 2 - Paella I took a survey of students prior to the class to see what folks wanted to learn. Many people said they wanted to learn more about seafood so I chose Paella as our topic since it would allow me an opportunity to discuss many food related things [...]
The cooking class that I’m teaching at Mills College started today. I devoted the first class to tasting different salts, sugars, vanilla’s, and butters. I wanted everyone to get an overview of the variation of flavors in these products so they can see how these differences can enhance their end product and hopefully [...]
