In my 6 years of teaching children to cook, I have encountered countless parents who wistfully express their desire that their children would eat more vegetables.  After a few classes, those same parents enthusiastically report that their kids are eating better and are more open to tasting new foods.  What’s the secret?  Nothing surprising –

Link:
Teaching Knife Skills to Kids and Suggestions for Cutting Tools

Join Celine Turenne as she hosts a wine tasting evening combined with Riedel glass education and food pairing at Cookworks , 1548 West Broadway, on South Granville this coming Monday, August 23rd, 2010 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm . This will be a very special evening as you will be sampling some reserve wines from [yellow tail] while at the same time the Cookworks’ representative from Riedel will provide education about the proper wine glasses to be used. You will have a chance to taste the difference between a wine poured in the wrong glass compared to one in the right glass and you can judge for yourself whether the proper wine glass makes a difference

The rest is here:
Cookworks on South Granville presents Wine Tasting 101, Monday Aug 23

When I worked in the restaurant business, if you happened to walk in during staff meal, you could always tell who were the pastry people: we were the ones dousing our food with vinegar and salt. That is, when we had time to sit down and eat. I like sweets, but I like them tempered with something not-necessarily sweet, which is why sometimes you’ll see a squeeze of lemon juice added to a fruit ice cream base or bakers like me include a pinch of salt in batter, to balance things out.

Original post:
Salted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Because the question comes up from time to time, I thought I’d answer some questions about making substitutions in my recipes and swapping out ingredients. The short answer is: When you substitute or swap out ingredients, results will vary and won’t be the same as mine. Some will work, and others won’t.

Read more:
Baking Ingredients and Substitutions

Today’s workshop was great. We made heaps of delicious raw vegan dairy alternatives– nut milk, three nut cheeses, plus cheesecake and ice cream. Rather than just have a cheese tasting, we turned them all into delicious dishes to make a raw vegan feast

View post:
Raw vegan dairy alternatives workshop

Join Celine Turenne and Cookworks , 1548 West Broadway on South Granville , every Saturday for an in-store live cooking demonstration. Walk-in and join the fun from 12pm – 4pm . No reservation required

See the article here:
Canning 101: In-Store Cooking Demo Saturday Aug 14, at Cookworks on South Granville

August is packed with culinary events, from a gourmet cooking expo in Mexico City to a gastronomy summit in Guanajuato and even a Guinness-worthy ‘World’s Largest Chile en Nogada” extravaganza in Atlixco, Puebla. Expo elgourmet.com 2010: Organized by the Spanish-language cooking channel elgourmet.com, this three-day expo gives viewers a chance to get up close and personal with some of their favorite Latin American chefs and wine experts, including Paulino Cruz (host of own cooking show), Enrique Olvera (all-round celebrity chef, owner of groundbreaking Mexico City restaurant Pujol, and host of own cooking show), and Eduardo Osuna (host of own cooking show). Last year’s event drew as many as 20,000 visitors from throughout Mexico and Latin America, according to the organizers.

See original here:
August Month for Culinary Travel in Mexico

The New Orleans Cooking Experience is a culinary school that offers personalised cooking classes for small groups of no more than ten people. Most classes involve learning how to prepare a four-course Cajun or Creole meal. …

Go here to read the rest:
New Orleans Culinary Schools – Southern Cooking on Vacation

The biggest problem is how many years do you have to go this cooking school to become a chef and get a good paying chefs job? Apparently it is more than one and with the fact that most of these for-profit cooking schools give financial …

More:
Learning to Cook – Cooking Schools and Getting the Best Return For …

If we’re lucky, the BP Gulf disaster could soon be over (at least the oil gushing part of it), but the damaged local communities will need help for a long time to come. That’s where the Pepsi Refresh Project’s ” Do Good for the Gulf ” initiative comes in.

See the article here:
Pepsi Refresh Project’s "Do Good For the Gulf" Campaign Takes Off

Here’s what CSR has learned from our first Win a Date contest we held last week: LOTS of our home cooks need a night out with their honey. After reading all of the comments that came in about why YOU need a  Dinner Date  Cooking Class for two, we have chosen the winner to be Deborah! In Deborah’s entry she wrote, “After a quick evening of throwing together dinner, baths, practicing school work, walking the dog, feeding the cats, brushing teeth and convincing our two year old that he really does need to sleep tonight…we’re spent.

Continued here:
Who Won a Dinner Date at CSR?

The goal of the O’ngo Culinary School is nurture a sense of culinary culture in Seoul. In the coming months we’ll continue to do culinary tours and cooking classes . In addition, we’ll start inviting homestyle chefs to share their native …

Read the original post:
Seoul Eats: The O'ngo Culinary School is Officially Open

A few years ago, I was extremely fortunate to meet Gina DePalma , the pastry chef at Babbo in New York City, thanks to the matchmaking efforts of Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg . Being bakers, we struck up a friendship and she gave me a copy of her gorgeous book, Dolce Italiano . And after we had dessert and coffee together, we ambled the streets of New York City a little and made plans to meet in Rome, where she was moving to work on her second book.

Excerpt from:
Zucchini Cake with Crunchy Lemon Glaze

Thinking of taking a cooking class in Italy? How to decide which class to take – Amateur or expert, young & old – here’s what to expect at La Tavola Marche Cooking School:

Original post:
Top 3 Italian Cooking Classes in Italy – Slow Food Inspired, Farm …

By Sarah Blecher CSR’s Office Manager & Social Media Strategist Some of you may remember (but don’t worry, I don’t expect you to) back in April I wrote a guest, guest blog post about my new obsession with gardening.

Here is the original post:
Hello, Mr. Cucumber.

Univision asked us for ideas, so we decided to give [the kids] classes for healthy cooking .” During this morning’s live news broadcast, the chefs focused on incorporating ingredients that a lot of the children didn’t much like, …

Read the original here:
La Casita Mexicana Chefs Teach Healthy Cooking Classes for Kids on …

After hours of recipe testing and deliberating, we’ve selected a 2 nd place winner in CSR’s Splendid Scoops Ice Cream Contest! Splendid Scooper, Sarah, created a creamy Colorado Sweet Corn & Fresh Cherry Ice Cream.

More:
Another Splendid Scoop – Colorado Sweet Corn & Fresh Cherry Ice Cream

Full Day Cooking Classes —starts mid-morning and continues all day normally ending around 6pm; includes meal, snacks and house wine as well as an apron and The Little Recipe Book from the Kitchen of La Tavola Marche as a gift for € 185/ …

Go here to see the original:
La Tavola Marche: Top 3 Italian Cooking Classes in Italy

I’d not heard of Eggplant Caviar ( caviar d’aubergine ), until I moved to France. I’m not sure why that was—perhaps in the states it’s called something different when I was served it

Read the original:
Eggplant Caviar

CSR received an overwhelming array of delicious ice cream recipes over the past few weeks.

See original here:
Splendid Scoops Ice Cream Contest Winner Has Been Churned!