Are your knives dull and neglected?

**2007: For a calendar of my current classes, click here.**

KNIFE SKILLS CLASS

the buying, the using and the keeping sharp of your now and future knives

Sunday May 15

2-4 pm

Fourth in a series of private classes taught by Shuna Lydon {bio at bottom of email}, this knife skills class will give you an overview of different knives and their usages, how to buy and hold a knife, and make useful and whimsical cuts. Practice using various knives and learn how to keep yours sharp. The class is a mixture of lecture, questions and answers, and practice. To see photos and descriptions of Shuna's other classes, visit:

http://eggbeater.typepad.com/shuna/

or click on: PAST AND FUTURE CLASSES on the eggbeater site.

SPECIFICS:

Sunday May 15th

2-4pm

Fatemeh's house

of Gastronomie:  www.gastronomie-sf.com

Oakland, The Jack London area

{exact location to be sent upon confirmation}

$40

Email me if you are interested and I will send you more information about how to send in payment to reserve your spot. The size of the class will be limited by the size of the kitchen. Thank you so much for your interest, I look forward to hearing from you!

--- Shuna Fish Lydon

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Shuna Lydon is a fruit inspired pastry chef. Lydon's style seamlessly links savory and sweet ingredients and methods, creating familiar and innovative desserts with a focus on local, seasonal and sustainable produce. My career has spanned thirteen years, working in New York City and Northern California. I have worked in such notable kitchens as Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan, The French Laundry and Bouchon in Yountville, and Citizen Cake and Aziza in San Francisco.

Shuna Lydon's work has garnered attention in The SF Chronicle, Gourmet magazine, among others, and the most recent press was as a featured chef in 7X7 magazine.

Shuna Lydon, most recently, has focused attentions on teaching, privately and through Sur La Table, and working for different farmers and food artisans at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market.

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Comments

[Margie Krystofiak]

Dear Ms. Lydon, First I would like to send you condolences on the death of your mom. I loved your Mom's book Knitting Sutra and recently picked up her other book Knitting Heaven and Earth. Much to my surprise it starts out in Summerhome Park. I am a long time residnet of SHP and everyone knows everyone else there. I was amazed to learn that she spent so many summers up there and our paths had not crossed. It is a VERY small community and nothing or no one gets by without everyone knowing. (Much like a Peyton Place) I would have loved to engage a dialogue with her about most anything from knitting to her interesting life to the fun card games her and her friends enjoyed in the evening. I am sorry I did not discover that she was a small part of our community sooner. I have shared her book with others from SHP and we can't figure out who her good friends could possibly be. Do you mind sharing their names? I am sure I must know the one who she visits with and would like to offer her my condolences also.

Sincerely,
Margie Krystofiak
[email protected]

[char abeyta]

Greetings.
Once again I finished your Mom's first book and ordered a half-dozen to give to my recovering friends. I first read her book in 1996 when I had 14yrs. clean. Again and again I thought of her and picked the book up. It is the best account of addiction and recovery I have read since I began my journey from addictions in 1979.
My grief hangs over my celebration of her--and your-- wit, endurance and recovery. While ordering more of her books, I came upon the notice of her transition.
I needed to let you know your Mother has kept another addict alive a day at a time.
Thanks for not giving up on her/us.
Congratulations on your achievements.
In the Spirit of Recovery,
char abeyta