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Sapphire Creek Winery’s executive chef Rick Bennett to give free cooking demo - cleveland.com

Posted: 13 May 2021 02:31 AM PDT

HUDSON, Ohio – Sapphire Creek Winery and Gardens' Rick Bennett will give a free live virtual cooking program focusing on fish through Hudson Library & Historical Society.

The program is 7 p.m. Monday, May 24. Bennett, executive chef at the Chagrin Falls winery, will demonstrate several dishes and guide viewers on cooking types of fish.

Bennett is a Ravenna native who has worked with Brandt Evans at Blue Canyon Kitchen & Tavern and Lola Bistro with Michael Symon, among other places.

Register online. Participants will receive a Zoom invitation. The program will be subsequently available on the library's Facebook and YouTube pages. For details, email askus@hudson.lib.oh.us or call 330-653-6658, ext. 1010.

Related coverage: Sapphire Creek Winery and Gardens reopens with new menu, same pleasant views (photos)

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A WWII cooking contest - The Concord Insider

Posted: 12 May 2021 05:47 PM PDT

By - May 12, 2021 |

The Kitchen Front

By Jennifer Ryan

(416 pages, fiction, 2021)

The year is 1942 in England and the country is reeling from Germany's attacks. The Blitz is going on in London, and people there and in the countryside are constantly on the lookout for enemy bombers. Losses of men – husbands, fathers, brothers and sons – are terrible, and hardships mount. Many foods are rationed. Some examples: each person is limited to four ounces of bacon, two pounds of mincemeat (like hamburger), four tablespoons of butter, 1 egg and a two-inch cube of cheese per week. If they could find them. People start growing extensive gardens, raising livestock, and foraging in the woods in order to find enough to eat.

To help raise morale, the BBC is sponsoring a wartime cooking competition. Each cook will provide a starter (appetizer), main course and dessert in the three rounds of the competition. Four women are chosen to compete: Mrs. Audrey Landon, a widow with three sons who cooks to support her family, Miss Nell Brown, a timid young cook from Fenley Hall, Lady Gwendoline Strickland, the wealthy sister of Audrey who needs to prove herself to her demanding husband, and single-minded Miss Zelda Dupont, once a chef in a London hotel, who is now working in a country pie factory. Each cook must stay within the strict rationing rules, but must also make a stunning and delicious dish that a housewife could replicate. The winner will become the first female co-host on the BBC radio program, The Kitchen Front.

Each cook has a compelling reason to win the competition. The story follows the lives of each woman as they come up with their creative dishes. Each one is struggling, and they see this contest as the answer to their troubles. This is a charming story about friendships, determination and food. Unusual recipes are included.

The author Jennifer Ryan did extensive research for this book, some of it in the UK's National Archives in London, and in the BBC's archives. There really was a BBC cooking show named The Kitchen Front. Wartime rationing began in England in 1940 and continued until 1954, which was nine years after the war had ended! Ryan's grandmother Eileen Beckley told her many stories about the food rationing and gave Ryan the recipes for her wartime dishes.

If you liked Jennifer Ryan's book The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Spies of Shilling Lane, I think that you'll really enjoy this book.

Visit Concord Public Library online at concordpubliclibrary.net.

Robbin Bailey

Learn How To Cook From Anywhere With These Online Classes - TAPinto.net

Posted: 12 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT

Cooking can be fun at any age, and learning new skills exercises your mind, especially as you get older. Whether you're just finding your way around the kitchen or you're a seasoned home chef, online cooking classes are a wonderful way to spend your day! From free courses featuring various dishes to lessons led by celebrity chefs, there are vast opportunities to satisfy just about any culinary curiosity.

Plus, the great thing about taking a virtual cooking class is you can learn to whip up meals from the comfort of your kitchen. That way, there's no pressure to deliver a mouthwatering masterpiece in front of fellow classmates. Of course, with a little patience and practice, even novice cooks can serve up something sublime in no time!

Here are seven fabulous online cooking classes you should sample the next time you want to explore your culinary side. Bon Appetit!

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America's Test Kitchen

America's Test Kitchen's award-winning cooking show has aired for 20 seasons. You can attend the ATK Online Cooking School on multiple digital devices and choose from over 320 courses to hone your cooking skills! Sign up for one or multiple classes, including cooking basics, technique lessons, recipe lessons, and more. Do you want to learn how to make flavorful Thai Dinners? Or how about baking some crusty baguettes or sharpening your Advanced Knife Skills?

There's so much to learn via expert instructors, 5,000 photos and 200 videos – and even classes you can do with your kids. Check it out with a 2-week free trial or grab an unlimited access paid membership.

Pasta with the Grandmas

Who can resist the palate-pleasing comfort of pasta – especially when you learn to make traditional Italian dishes from a village of women in Palombara, Sabina, Italy?

In Pasta with the Grandmas, a grandma and granddaughter team up to teach you a different recipe each night in a scheduled live stream class via Airbnb Online Experiences. Class fees are per person with group discounts according to the size of your group. Learn their recipe secrets while making dishes like Fettuccine Ragu, Ravioli with Ricotta and Spinach, Gnocchi Pesto, and Classic Lasagne. Fun extras include suggested wine pairings, Italian music selections, and more!

Gordon Ramsey's Ultimate Cookery Course

World-renowned chef, restauranteur, and star of multiple TV cooking shows, Gordon Ramsey, demonstrates how to cook a wide range of easy, delicious dishes in his free online Ultimate Cookery Course on YouTube. Not only does he teach you to cook, but Ramsey gives tips like the best and easiest way to slice peppers (spoiler alert: slice them on the flat side!). Overall, his goal is to help viewers learn to "cook with confidence" in a multi-video series featuring "100 Recipes to Stake Your Life On." You'll bake, pan sear, chop, dice, fry, and more.

ChefSteps

If you'd like to learn some fun, unconventional cooking methods from a group of chefs, writers, and video professionals, check out ChefSteps. A monthly Studio Pass fee of $7 or $69 annually grants you access to new cooking guides, "scientific food insights," a wealth of behind-the-scenes videos – all to help you "level up" your cooking.

Studio Pass members can access a large lineup of step-by-step instructional recipes and Premium Classes. Have you ever wanted to make homemade milk chocolate bars? Why not take a tasty spin on a Tornado Omelet? Or you can get really creative with a "Reuben-Esque Smash Patty Melt." Only one word sums up these culinary delights – yum!

The ChefSteps crew films videos from the famous Pike Place Market in Seattle - a perfect spot for virtual lessons that will help you serve up some incredible food!

Publix Aprons Cooking School Online

National grocery store chain Publix teaches you how to make various scrumptious dishes in its online Publix Aprons Cooking School. Watch cooking lessons on YouTube that contain recipe ingredients you can buy at a local grocer. Some of the easy-to-make, delicious offerings include Chicken Scaloppini, Spicy Fried Shrimp Tacos & Avocado Salsa, and a lesson on building an amazing Fresh Cheese Board.

CakeFlix

No online cooking class list is complete without a baking specialty course like CakeFlix. You'll learn how to make and decorate an array of gorgeous cakes and luscious desserts, ala some of the dazzlers on "The Holiday Baking Championship." Choose your skill level from Easy, Intermediate, and Advanced, then learn via a series of easy-to-follow tutorials. There are Free, Premium, and Pro memberships.

MasterClass

Taking an online cooking MasterClass means you'll learn from a lineup of renowned master chefs, including Gordon Ramsey, Wolfgang Puck, Alice Waters, and Gabriela Cámara. Each famous chef teaches with a unique culinary flair or specialty. The great thing about learning via MasterClass is that you can watch the lessons On-Demand, and a monthly fee billed annually allows access to the entire Masterclass online course library.

We've armed you with some great choices, so let's get cooking!

Bryan and Michael Voltaggio Go Head-to-Head In New Cooking Show Battle of the Brothers — Watch - PEOPLE

Posted: 12 May 2021 08:37 AM PDT

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What to Cook This Week - The New York Times

Posted: 09 May 2021 07:30 AM PDT

Good morning. Happy Mother's Day to all those women who've shouldered so much parental work during these last 14 months, and happy Mother's Day personally to Dorie Greenspan, who brought us an incredible new recipe for gâteau Basque (above) this week. We all ought to make it today in honor of maternity, or Basque culture, or just because it's delicious: two disks of rolled-out airy-crumbly dough with a baked-in filling of pastry cream or jam. It's a cake that resembles a cake, Dorie writes in her column, as much as Boston cream pie resembles a pie — which is to say not at all. Eat it with your fingers for dessert tonight.

You can make the meal that precedes it Basque as well, if you like. We've got a fine recipe for fish with clams in salsa verde that would make most mothers proud. Florence Fabricant recommends making the dish with hake or halibut. Cod would work as nicely, as would haddock or flounder.

But you don't have to. We have a load of recipes for a Mother's Day dinner to peruse, or you can follow my lead and make kimbap, Korean "seaweed rice," sturdy, nori-wrapped rolls of rice and fillings. Darun Kwak calls for fish cakes, Spam, eggs and vegetables in hers. I've swapped in imitation crab and Alaskan smoked salmon, myself. Kimbap is what you make of it.

So that's Sunday. On Monday, how about trying your hand at baked rajma, Punjabi-style red beans with cream? It's a dead-simple recipe that we've called "the indisputable king of bean dishes."

We are as always standing by to help, should something go wrong with your cooking or our technology. Just write cookingcare@nytimes.com. Someone will get back to you, I promise.

If you've got some time before brunch today, or if you find yourself idly scrolling your phone while your gâteau Basque bakes, check us out on Instagram, and on Facebook as well. On Twitter, you'll find links to our news articles. And you should absolutely visit us on YouTube. (I'm on Twitter and Instagram myself: @samsifton.)

Now, it's a fair distance from cheese curds and blackberries, but Parul Sehgal got me excited for Alison Bechdel's new book. Get on that, would you?

It's slight, but I still really liked this brief history of car keys, in the magazine published by AAA.

Would you live in an apartment in a Quonset hut? That's happening in Detroit, according to Fast Company. (You can read more about the project here.)

Finally, music from a mom who is so much more than a mom to play us off: Kim Gordon, "Sketch Artist." Enjoy that and I'll be back on Monday.


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