SF/Bay Area Baking Class: April 22, 2007

**2007: For current classes, click here.**

**Sunday April 15: Registration for these classes is closed. Thank you for your interest-- both classes are full!**

Might you consider joining us Sunday April 22nd?

A baking class, a delicious afternoon.

We'll be in North Berkeley from 12:30-4 pm

I realize it's a lot of money to plunk down. For an amorphous title such as Seasonal Fruit.

But think of the possibilities......

In 3 and 1/2 hours we could cover  a number of these:

~ Tarts, soups, cakes, sorbet, ice cream, doughnuts, custards, meringues!

Today I had some of the best early strawberries I've ever eaten. Rhubarb tempts with its crunchy acidic self. Want to learn how to cook rhubarb to desired sweetness without making it into baby food mush? Play in a professional kitchen with a real pastry chef? Turn butter and flour into flaky pastry, eat all our results? Get your questions answered? Have real live hands-on experience to create your own body memories with?

Please consider joining this small class on April 22nd, if even to offer you Spring inspiration.

SUNDAY APRIL 22   

SEASONAL FRUIT DESSERTS
12:30-4 pm
North Berkeley
$100*

How To Sign Up:

To register for a class, pay by simply clicking on the Paypal link (located in the right hand column of Eggbeater). If you wish to send me a check, email me (Email link is in the upper left hand column of Eggbeater) and I will give you a snail mail address.

*There are 2 spots reserved for "assistant" positions, at half the cost. If you feel you qualify, please email me directly.

come one, come all. come hungry to learn!

 

Comments

[bwbradley]

Oh, how i wish i could, but Louisiana is a bit too far away. But it sounds absolutely delightful

[Marc]

Which Bay Area farmers' markets reliably carry rhubarb? I never seem to see it.

[shuna fish lydon]

Hello Marc,

Few people grow it here is what I've found. Unless you're Alice Waters it's close to impossible to get it from a "local" farm. I get mine at Monterey Market.

[Sara]

Shuna,

I so wish I could come, but Berkeley is definitely too far away for a weekend trip (live in Italy). If you offer classes in the summer, when my job brings me to the Bay Area, I'll come for sure!

[Michelle]

Hi Shuna,
First time posting here, though I've been lurking for quite some time. I'd love to take any of your classes, but alas I am 1) a poor grad student (sadly, $50 is still a LOT of money) and 2) attending a conference that weekend!

[sam]

Actually Happy Quail sell rhubarb at the ferry buildings on saturdays. They did sell it last year too, so being Sam Breach is just as good as being Alice Waters.

Their first batch of 2007 rhubarb was almost two weeks ago now and so I am hoping for some this weekend too.

They told me they are only going to bring it up every two weeks therby giving it the chance to grow in between visits.
they told me they should have it well into the summer.

Of course this is what they told me - things could change or not work out that way.

Their rhubarb is mostly green. they tell me the redness of rhubarb comes from the cold, the likes of which we don't have enough of in CA to turn the stems red, though today I might argue with it not being cold enough.