Classes & Tastings

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From Chef Becky Selengut, a four-course dinner and demonstration cooking class for four either at the Chef's Table on Beacon Hill (Chef's home) or in the comfort of your own home. Included in the meal is a copy of one of Chef Becky Selengut's signed cookbooks and wine pairing suggestions by sommelier April Pogue.

The Chef's Table will feature local, seasonal ingredients on a constantly-changing menu that is custom designed for your group of four, a 1-1/2 hour cooking demonstration, and after, a sit-down meal that we all share together. Becky instills in students an appreciation for the raw materials that form the backbone of every good dish. She also stresses the healthful aspects, both for you and our environment, of buying locally grown, organic produce and meat that is produced humanely.

Becky Selengut is a 1999 Seattle Culinary Academy graduate where she was awarded the Outstanding Culinarian of the Year. Selengut's culinary career began in restaurants, with stints at La Medusa, La Spiga and 3 years at the internationally acclaimed Herbfarm Restaurant working under her mentor, Chef Jerry Traunfeld. Since 2004, her career has moved beyond the traditional restaurant into everything but the restaurant, taking on such diverse jobs as cheffing on a yacht tour of the Inside Passage to teaching cooking to immigrants and refugees and finding them work in the food industry. In 2004, she started her private chef and culinary education business, Cornucopia Cuisine. A regular instructor for PCC Natural Markets since '04, Selengut is also an adjunct professor in the culinary/nutrition department at Bastyr University. A prolific writer, Selengut co-authored The Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook  in 2008, and wrote Good Fish in 2011 with wine pairing contributions from her wife, Sommelier April Pogue. Good Fish was an IACP book award finalist, one of Seattle Magazine's best cookbooks of 2011 and an NPR-notable read. In 2012, Selengut was given the Seafood Ambassador Award by the Monterey Bay Aquarium for her commitment to ocean conservation and sustainable seafood education. A former freelancer for Seattle Homes and Lifestyles Magazine, she currently writes a two time "Eddy" award-nominated humor column for Edible Seattle Magazine. Selengut also runs the blog Chef Reinvented and co-leads springtime foraging tours.

Item Special Note

Mutually agreeable date; expires 2/7/14.