BY C.W. CAMERON
Starting off January with New Year's resolutions to channel your inner butcher, biscuit baker or kombucha maker? Here are five classes that will give you a new skill for a delicious new year.
Fermented foods such as kimchi and miso are delicious and add beneficial bacteria to your diet. In this class from Homestead Atlanta, you'll learn the basics of making your own kombucha, or fermented tea, and milk and water kefirs, a natural alternative to sodas. 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10. $60. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta. Register here.
If you've decided eating local this year means eating right from your own deck or back yard, get your hands dirty with Homestead Atlanta and Mike Cunningham of Country Gardens Farm. You'll learn how to get your seeds off to a good start and go home with potted seeds and everything you need to know to get your spring garden off to an excellent start. 10 a.m.-noon. Saturday, Jan. 23. $50. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta. Register here.
Make Biscuits That Will Melt in Your Mouth
The Preserving Place in Atlanta's Westside Provisions District will teach you to make buttermilk biscuits that will melt in your mouth and impress the pickiest Southern grandmother. You'll learn to make variations both sweet and savory, and when the baking's done, you'll sit down to enjoy your biscuits with jam and a glass of wine. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. $55. Preserving Place, 1170 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Register here.
Janet Zimmerman wrote the book on pressure cooking, "The Health Pressure Cooker," and she'll be at the East Cobb location of Cook's Warehouse to walk you through making hummus from dried garbanzo beans, pressure cooking baby back ribs and more. 7 - 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27. $45. The Cook's Warehouse, 1311 Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta. Register here.
Turn a Pork Belly into Pancetta
Avondale Estate's Pine Street Market offers a world of classes for working with meat. Want to butcher a whole pig? Take their class on January 16. Ready to make your own sausage? That's January 23. Or you can join P ine Street's Rusty Bowers and Twain's Brewpub's Savannah Haseler and season and stuff your own salami and dry cure pork belly to make pancetta. Class includes lunch of smoked meats and country sides. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Register here.
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