Youth Cooking Class: Eat Like an Italian — Spring Feast!

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Youth Cooking Class: Eat Like an Italian — Spring Feast!

  • date: May 12, 2018
  • time: 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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  • This class is the perfect place for young cooks, ages 7-11, with minimal experience and a taste for Italian cuisine! We will whip up a spring asparagus risotto and roast a whole, fresh fish! Both recipes highlight seasonal foods and fundamental cooking skills needed by any Italian home chef. All ingredients are locally sourced from sustainable farms. Eat like an Italian while never leaving the Pacific Northwest! 

    Class prices include a meal. Accommodations for dietary restrictions upon request.

    This class will focus on “Italian sensibility + sustainability.”

    Skills:
    ●    Knife skills; we will practice on onions, garlic, asparagus, herbs, and other vegetables
    ●    Roasting skills
    ●    Cooking with rice
    ●    How to make a stock
    ●    Seafood sustainability and food chain

    Recipes:
    ●    Spring Asparagus Risotto
    ●    Whole roasted fish stuffed with seasonal vegetables and herbs

    Instructors: Alice Carli & Erica Weisman of Seattle Cucina Cooking School

    Seattle Cucina Cooking School leads creative, hands-on classes to improve students’ nutrition, how they relate to their families and community, and how they participate in sustainable food systems. Cofounders, Alice and Erica, teach in local schools, community centers and after-school programs in the greater Seattle Area.

    Alice received her degree in Public Health from the University of Washington and is interested in the intersection of cooking, nutrition, and childhood development. She has been cooking avidly for the past 10 years for friends and family!

    Erica has worked as a professional cook for the past few years, most recently at the James Beard Award nominated restaurant, Canlis. She has managed a food cooperative and loves working alongside peers to bring the greater Seattle community delicious, wholesome food.

    To register, make your selection from one of the choices in the registration box.

    Learn more about 21 Acres’ cancellation and refund policy.