Enjoy time in great kitchens while pumping up your cooking skills with guidance from Atlanta’s best chefs and cooking teachers.
Don't forget - there's a right way to dress for any hands-on cooking class: wear closed toe shoes with non-slip soles, tie your hair back and dress casually.
The Preserving Place in Atlanta's Westside Provisions District offers hands-on classes throughout the year. Our pick for February is "Family Meal: Roast Chicken Dinner." This is the first in a new series on classic recipes and what's more classic than a delicious roast chicken? You'll roast a chicken and make vegetable side dishes as well. 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Thursday, February 4. $65. Preserving Place, 1170 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Register here.
Sur la Table stores at Phipp's Plaza and North Point Mall offer hands on cooking classes geared to all cooking tastes. In February, both locations will host "Delicious Dumplings from Around the World." In the two-hour class you'll work in teams of four to make Pork and Green Onion Potstickers, Panamanian Beef Empanadas and Ricotta Gnudi with Brown Butter, Proscuitto and Sage – and the sauces that go with them. And you'll eat what you make. 10 a.m. – noon, Saturday, February 6. $69. Sur la Table, Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Road, Atlanta. Same class offered on other dates and at North Point Mall as well. Register here.
Jonathan Kallini, chef de cuisine at Bacchanalia, offers hands-on cooking classes at Serenbe. He teaches one class a month and in February, he's setting you up with success with winter soups. He'll teach the basics of making broth and then how to use it in purees and soups. 2 – 3:30 p.m. Sunday, February 7. $55. Serenbe, Bosch Experience Center, 10640 Serenbe Lane, Chattahoochee Hills. Register here.
The folks at the Cooking School at Irwin Street in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward say they specialize in taking the fear and frustration out of cooking. Classes come in all shapes and sizes from a series on international flavors to their perennially popular Friday night "Date Night" classes. This month we're all about their class on basic knife techniques, the essential skill for anyone who wants to hang out in the kitchen. 7 p.m., Wednesday, February 24. $80. The Cooking School at Irwin Street, 660 Irwin Street, Atlanta. Register here.
They say laws are like sausages, you don't want to see them being made. We can't speak to laws, but in this case, you really do want to watch sausage being made. And get your hands into it as well. Avondale Estate's Pine Street Market is offering a three hour class (and tasting) where you'll grind your own sausage, put it into casings and get tips for cooking. Enjoy a lunch of beer-braised smoked sausages, country sides and a beverage and take home two pounds of your own handmade sausage. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Saturday, February 27. $125. Pine Street Market, 4 Pine Street, Avondale Estates. Register here.
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