🧑🍳 Tempe bakery Tracy Dempsey Originals will hold a gnocchi-making class from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23.
Attendees will make three preparations: Cacio e pepe gnocchi; gnocchi with browned butter, butternut squash, and kale; and gnocchi in creamy harissa sauce with chèvre.
Cost is $70 person. Email your reservation with the name of the class in the subject line to tracy@tracydempseyoriginals.com by Friday, Sept.15.
🥑 Z’Tejas will offer a margarita and guacamole class at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, at its Scottsdale location (sign up here) and 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at its Chandler location (sign up here).
A mixologist will teach participants how to create Z’Tejas’ signature margarita with a take-home shaker. A Z’Tejas chef will provide tips on perfecting America’s favorite dip.
The class costs $50 per person.
🇪🇸 ‘‘Summertime Tapas,’’ a hands-on cooking class, will take place from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at Tracy Dempsey Originals in Tempe.
What: Can’t head to Spain this summer? Bring a bit of Spain to you with easy and delicious tapas, perfect for the hot summer days ahead.
The tapas: Partipants will enjoy a traditional vermouth cocktail with the bites they create:
Note: Partipants are asked to bring their favorite apron from home.
Cost: $70 per person.
RSVP: Email tracy@tracydempseyoriginals.com by Friday, June 16.
The Phoenix Chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier, a philanthropic organization of women leaders in the food, beverage, and hospitality industries, is offering a ‘‘Cook Like a Dame’’ series virtually this summer from a pair of acclaimed experts.
The instructors: Candy Lesher, former editor-in-chief and TV host for Food & Life Magazine and an Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame member, and Tamara Stanger, former chef of Helio Basin Brewing and Cotton & Copper and now chef at Hell’s Backbone Grill & Farm in Boulder Utah.
The classes:
The lowdown: Each live class will have 50-60 minutes of instruction, followed by an opportunity to interact with and ask questions of the instructor. Recipes will be provided five days in advance so participants can cook alongside the chefs.
Cost: $35 per class or $100 for all four. Participants are welcome to “share the screen” with friends and family. Sign up here.
Fresh off his sixth-place finish at the World Food Championships, El Palacio owner and chef Anthony Serrano will teach a tamale-making class at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Chandler Mexican restaurant.
The class is $15, which includes lunch and a drink.
Rather just buy your tamales? El Palacio is offering a dozen tamales for $25, or a dozen tamales, a pint of salsa, a pint of guacamole, and a bag of tortilla chips for $34.
Salsa and guacamole also can be purchased separately for $4 per pint. Bags of chips are $5.
Cuisine & Wine Bistro in south Chandler will hold a class on debunking some of the misconceptions about wines from the U.S., France and Spain at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The three-hour class, led by sommelier Chris Jeffers, will taste and discuss white wines, red wines, and a dessert wine. Cost is $28 per person.
Class size is limited, so reserve your spot by calling 480-275-6700.
After the class, attendees can enjoy $2 off any glass of wine from the evening’s class, and also purchase a special $12 cheese and meat board.
After a summer hiatus, cooking classes return to El Palacio Mexican Restaurant & Cantina in Chandler next weekend.
From 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct. 1, chef-owner Anthony Serrano will teach you how to make four items:
The class is just $15, which includes lunch and a cocktail. RSVP here.
Lauren (pictured) and Eric Salazar, New Belgium Brewing’s wood beer specialists, will kick off their five-city Sour Symposium tour Friday, Deb. 13, at Culinary Dropout in Tempe.
Attendees will learn the art of blending beer – from grain to glass – focusing on techniques the Salazars use in the Colorado brewery’s cellar while enjoying a pint of New Belgium’s La Folie.
They also will get to blend their own sour beers using different samples of unblended base beers kept in individual foeders in the brewery’s cellar.
Two-hour classes will be held at 5 and 8 p.m. Cost is $50 per person. Get your ticket here.
Zappone’s Italian Bistro in Gilbert will host a holiday cooking class at noon Saturday, Dec. 13.
Attendees will learn how to make five dishes:Â Creamy mushroom soup (pictured), braised pork roast, creamy parmesan polenta, creamy puffs with hazelnut drizzle, and panna cotta.
The class, taught by owner and chef Sal Zappone, runs about two hours and costs $35 plus tax and 18% gratuity.
Reservations are required because classes do sell out. RSVP:Â 480-218-2338.
