Summer CAFÉ
Culinary Arts Food Experience!
The Summer CAFÉ series features Fairbanks’ professional and celebrity chefs. Each class will be an opportunity to experience chef demonstrations in a wide variety of food genres. Recipe demonstrations come complete with delicious samples. All classes take place at the Hutchison Career Center Dining Room.
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The First Ever “Teflon Chef’s Competition”featuring June 25 Come watch Team “KUAC” take on Team “Daily News-Miner” in the 1st ever “Teflon Chef’s Competition”. Greg Petrowich (KUAC) and Marilyn Romano (Daily News-Miner) will lead their teams through the grueling battle of the “Teflon Chefs.” After each team prepares their special menu, both teams will be challenged to prepare a complementary dessert using a “secret ingredient”. Besides watching this spectacle you will sample their wares and participate in the selection of the winner.
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For Kids Only!
CAFE Youth Culinary Arts Academy
June 16–20
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Chuck Lemke, instructor
Ages 12–17 with a limit of 20 students
Fee: $275.00
Does your teen like to cook? Would they like to be self-sufficient in the kitchen? Utilizing the state of the art cooking facility at the Hutchison Career Center, students will learn to prepare and present delicious soups, salads, meats and desserts. The class will culminate with a lunch on Friday prepared and served by the students to guests invited by the students. (Limit of two invited guests per student.) . Students register on Secondary School Student Enrollment Form.
CAFE Kids Cooking Camp
June 23–27
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–noon
Chuck Lemke, instructor
Ages 7-11 with a limit of 20 students
Fee: $225.00
Does your youngster want to help in the kitchen? Do they enjoy being creative with their food? This course offers your budding chef an opportunity to explore cooking by learning basic health and safety skills in the kitchen. Students will experience the whole process of cooking from preparing dishes through presentation, consumption, and clean up. The class will culminate with a lunch prepared and served by the students to guests invited by the students. (Limit of two invited guests per student.) . Students register on Secondary School Student Enrollment Form.
And don't miss this cooking adventure:
First Ever—Culinary & Cultural Tour to the Heart of Traditional Mexico
January 24–February 3, 2009
UAF Summer Sessions invites you to join Mexico’s premiere cooking school in Tepoztlán,an hour outside Mexico City, for ten days of authentic hands-on cooking with village women, and excursions that will take you into the heart of pre-Hispanic and contemporary Mexican culture. The hotel where you will be staying is in the seductive village of Tepoztlán, an area known as the Valley of Eternal Spring.
Learn to make tortillas, tamales, mole, chilies rellenos, cilantro and squash blossom soup and our delicious array of original desserts. Try your hand at food writing with Cocinar Mexicano director Magda Bogin, novelist and the translator of Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits. Learn to mix the best margaritas with the great-grandson of the man who invented them. Explore the eight-barrio churches of Tepoztlán (built on the ruins of totemic pyramids) and the UNESCO World Heritage cathedral in the center of the market. Climb to the ancient pyramid that overlooks the village, one of only two hilltop pyramids in Mexico. Experience the intense relaxation of a traditional adobe sweat bath, or temascal, and buy classic Mexican pottery at the nearby village of Tlayacapan.