Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/04/2017
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Sweet Auburn Municipal Market
Categories
Have confidence in your ability to safely and accurately use a sharp knife, know what to look for when purchasing a good knife, and learn how to keep it sharp and maintained.
You will learn how to identify and understand the uses of various types of knives. Learn the best safe knife handling practices in a kitchen and your correct hand position and stance.
You’ll get to use several different knives and discuss sharpening tools (chef’s knife, paring knife, other bladed tools), handling basic knife cuts: slicing, dicing, chopping, and mincing.
We’ll use our skills to prepare and then eat the Crudite and Salsa Fresca we made in class.
$55.00 each.
Christine Seelye-King is a professional Chef Instructor and Cookbook Author, teaching culinary skills to students of all ages from small children through senior citizens. She is the co-author of Easy Gluten-Free Entertaining, and author of the ebook Mrs. Claus Cooks for Holiday Entertaining. She has worked with the Hope Scholarship Program through Chattahoochee Technical College, teaching the first year of culinary basics and management to advanced placement high school students, and as a Chef Instructor to the public at the Viking Cooking School and Cook’s Warehouse. She is a certified ServSafe instructor and proctor for the National (and Georgia) Restaurant Associations.
Christine served a 3-year chef’s apprenticeship through the American Culinary Federation, becoming the first woman to graduate from the program in the SE in 1984. Since then her job titles have included Restaurant and Bar Manager, Personal Chef, Health and Education Coordinator for Sevananda Natural Foods, Mad Scientist, and Mrs. Claus. She currently teaches with the LEAD Homeschool Organization as a Chef Instructor and teacher of Living History and Domestic Sciences.
