# 53 Calling All Locavores: Homemade Bread and Market Menu ---Live From Union Square!
market tour and partial participation
Join Chef Instructor and cookbook author, Jay Weinstein, for a true market-to-table culinary adventure. You'll start this 6-hour class by preparing dough for focaccia. Then, while it's rising, Jay will lead the way to the Union Square Greenmarket where you'll learn to shop the way market- driven chefs do---by choosing what's fresh, local and seasonal. The ingredients you select will determine the menu. You'll learn to improvise rather than solely rely on recipes. Market purchases might include healthfully raised grass-fed meat, freshly-caught wild fish, farm-fresh eggs and dairy, wine, and a bounty of locally grown produce. When you return to the classroom, you'll focus on technique as you help the instructor prepare a balanced seasonal meal with dessert. And the focaccia dough will have risen, so you'll learn how to bake it off to perfection. Then the best part: sitting down to enjoy and savor everything with a glass of wine, feeling content with the knowledge that you have just supported your local farmers. Choose either June or August or both! Each menu will be entirely different.
a) Saturday, June 20, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
b) Saturday, August 29, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: Jay Weinstein
Fee: $150; Two People: $290
# 54 Learning and Dining in Little India
tour of Indian markets, dinner at Vatan
Until now, the sights, sounds and smells of India may only have flitted about in your imagination. Now you can embark on a tantalizing tour of India here in Manhattan. Join Geetha Ghai, our culinary interpreter, as she guides you through the shops that are part of the bustling bazaar of Little India. She will discuss the wide variety of kitchenware specifically used by traditional Indian cooks as well as the various spices, dhals, grains, condiments and other truly unique ingredients. We will then continue on to Vatan, a vegetarian restaurant serving food that replicates a typical Gujurati feast, where we will sit down to savor the luscious and richly spiced food of this region. Geetha will explain the different components of our meal and answer any questions you might have. If you are passionate about Indian food but yearn to know more about what you're eating---or perhaps you have yet to sample this complex cuisine and are uncertain where to begin---why not come to this wonderful learn-and-dine opportunity. Students meet in front of Kalustyan's at 123 Lexington Ave. (28th St.) and after shopping tour will walk 1 block to Vatan at 409 Third Ave. (29th St.). Price- fixed dinner included in class fee. Dinner is at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 18, 3:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Instructor: Geetha Ghai
Fee: $85
# 54 Learning and Dining in Little India
tour of Indian markets, dinner at Vatan
Until now, the sights, sounds and smells of India may only have flitted about in your imagination. Now you can embark on a tantalizing tour of India here in Manhattan. Join Geetha Ghai, our culinary interpreter, as she guides you through the shops that are part of the bustling bazaar of Little India. She will discuss the wide variety of kitchenware specifically used by traditional Indian cooks as well as the various spices, dhals, grains, condiments and other truly unique ingredients. We will then continue on to Vatan, a vegetarian restaurant serving food that replicates a typical Gujurati feast, where we will sit down to savor the luscious and richly spiced food of this region. Geetha will explain the different components of our meal and answer any questions you might have. If you are passionate about Indian food but yearn to know more about what you're eating---or perhaps you have yet to sample this complex cuisine and are uncertain where to begin---why not come to this wonderful learn-and-dine opportunity. Students meet in front of Kalustyan's at 123 Lexington Ave. (28th St.) and after shopping tour will walk 1 block to Vatan at 409 Third Ave. (29th St.). Price- fixed dinner included in class fee. Dinner is at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 18, 3:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Instructor: Geetha Ghai
Fee: $85
