| Juzerm@gmail.com |
I wanted to present a 1/2 day to one day cooking class + meal as a
birthday present to someone in the Washington DC Area. Any tips on
where to search would be most appreciated.
J.
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| Pete Romfh |
Juzerm@gmail.com wrote:
> I wanted to present a 1/2 day to one day cooking class +
> meal as a birthday present to someone in the Washington
> DC Area. Any tips on where to search would be most
> appreciated.
>
> J.
Take a look at http://cookforfun.shawguides.com
There are others but Shaw's is probably the biggest list around.
--
Pete Romfh, Telecom Geek & Amateur Gourmet.
promfh at hal dash pc dot org
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| Chris Neidecker |
<Juzerm@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I wanted to present a 1/2 day to one day cooking class + meal as a
> birthday present to someone in the Washington DC Area. Any tips on
> where to search would be most appreciated.
>
> J.
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Nice idea! My mother-in-law has taken a few classes at L'Academie de
Cuisine and has enjoyed it tremendously. I've looked at their class
offerings before and have noticed that many of them are 2-3 hours long
(including eating the meal). There are participation classes as well as
demonstration classes.
http://www.lacademie.com/Recreational/Welcome/index.asp
Both of my in-laws have been to several demonstrations/meals at L'Auberge
Chez Francois, in Great Falls, VA (outside of DC). Although these demos are
not participatory, my in-laws say they are *lots* of fun. The food at Chez
Francois is excellent -- I've eaten there many times and also have Chef
Jacques Haeringer's cookbook _Two for Tonight_. I would expect whatever he
prepares in his demos to be nothing less than stellar.
http://chefjacques.com/Merchant2/me...ct_Code=CDW0501
The Washington Post Food section lists area cooking classes once or twice a
year. For some reason, I can only find the list from 2003 (link below).
I'm sure some of the links are outdated, but it's a starting point. And the
Judy Harris link is one I stumbled across -- I know nothing about her or her
classes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...6¬Found=true
http://www.judyharris.com/
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| Cryambers |
<Juzerm@gmail.com> wrote:
>I wanted to present a 1/2 day to one day cooking class + meal as a
>birthday present to someone in the Washington DC Area. Any tips on
>where to search would be most appreciated.
I don't know if it's the kind of thing you had in mind, but I've enjoyed taking
classes with Roberto Donna at his Laboratorio:
http://www.galileodc.com/events/cooking.asp
Those are about half a day and end with a meal.
pat
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| Chris Neidecker |
"Cryambers" <cryambers@aol.com> wrote in message
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> <Juzerm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I wanted to present a 1/2 day to one day cooking class + meal as a
>>birthday present to someone in the Washington DC Area. Any tips on
>>where to search would be most appreciated.
>
> I don't know if it's the kind of thing you had in mind, but I've enjoyed
> taking
> classes with Roberto Donna at his Laboratorio:
> http://www.galileodc.com/events/cooking.asp
>
> Those are about half a day and end with a meal.
Oh that looks great to me! I'd love to go to the class on Feb. 21 w/
Roberto Donna and Michel Richard. Hmmm....at $200 a pop, though, I wouldn't
be able to bring my husband with me. Hmmm...
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| Cryambers |
"Chris Neidecker" <cneidecker@verizon.net>
>Oh that looks great to me! I'd love to go to the class on Feb. 21 w/
>Roberto Donna and Michel Richard. Hmmm....at $200 a pop, though, I wouldn't
>be able to bring my husband with me. Hmmm...
They're likely booked up through the whole spring, but you might be able to get
on a waiting list. The classes fill up pretty quickly. I imagine the one
you're interested in is probably hard to get into, even with that high price.
I think you can ask them to put you on an email list to be informed when the
fall classes are announced, though.
pat
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| Chris Shenton |
Juzerm@gmail.com writes:
> I wanted to present a 1/2 day to one day cooking class + meal as a
> birthday present to someone in the Washington DC Area. Any tips on
> where to search would be most appreciated.
L'Academie de Cuisine does classes, both demonstration and hands-on; I
prefer the latter. The best class I've had there has been a
full-weekend "primary skills" class; I thought I was pretty confident
but had to unlearn a bunch of bad habits. You get to eat at all the
classes, hands-on or demo. They have beginner to advanced classes, as
well as professional training programs.
L'Academie also has weekend classes at the historic Mercersburg Inn,
in PA a couple times a year. Quite good, but not for the
inexperienced or thin-skinned -- it's pretty intense. Also probably a
bunch more expensive than you're planning.
Roberto Donna's classes at Laboratorio are excellent -- he's quite
personable, friendly, a good teacher. Cooking in this kitchen is
quite a treat. It helps to be a fairly confident cook because his
class recipes bear little resemblance to what you'll really be doing
-- but that's the fun of it: cook with what's fresh, improvise where
you need to, cook until done :-). Some classes are during the day,
for a bit more cost there are equivalent evening courses. You eat
what you make and they serve wine with.
Other restaurants, like Tosca, do classes but I haven't been to them yet.
Sur La Table in Pentagon Row also has classes. Their catalog makes
them sound similar to L'Academie's. I'm looking forward to taking a
couple classes there soon but haven't been yet.
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