Registered dietician Melanie Loschiavo will teach a free cooking course tonight and Feb. 22 at Oxbow High School in Bradford.
The monthly Cooking Fresh! course, supported by Hannaford and the Upper Valley Community Health Team of the Vermont Blueprint for Health, offers participants the chance to prepare and eat several seasonal recipes.
January’s recipes include: red rice salad with pecans, fennel and herbs; crunchy turnip, apple and Brussels sprout slaw; veggistrone soup; glazed carrot coins and spinach and feta quiche with a sweet potato crust.
The class is open to anyone looking to broaden their cooking skills and expose their taste buds to new things.
It will take place in the family and consumer sciences room from 6 to 7:30 p.m. To reserve a spot call 802-866-5511 or email melanie.loschiavo@gmail.com. Find more information at uvnutrition.com.
Let Them Eat Soup
More than a dozen hot, homemade soups, accompanied by bread, dessert, cider and coffee, will be available at the Meetinghouse at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley on Route 5 in Norwich on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The cost is $10 at the door for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.
Lessons in Food
Personal chef Ali Price will lead a course in making vegetarian soups at the Open Door Studio on North Main Street in White River Junction on Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon. Price will lead participants in the preparation of a vegetarian soup stock from scratch and two more soups. Participants will go home with recipes, broth and soup samples in containers brought from home.
The cost for the course is $90. To register, call 603-726-0646 or email chefalirose@gmail.com.
Kathy Maieli, of Vagabond Vintner, will hold a wine blending workshop in Hanover on Feb. 10 and 11. She will teach participants about wine blends from Bordeaux, Cotes du Rhone and California, and how to make their own custom blend. The workshop, including tastings, food, materials and equipment, costs $75 per person or $125 per couple or pair working together.
For more information or to sign up for the workshop, which will take place at the World Peace Center at 10 Buck Road, contact Kathy at 802-233-1270 or vagabondvintner@gmail.com.
Emmy-winner and cookbook author Raghavan Iyer will share recipes from his latest book, Smashed, Mashed, Boiled and Baked — and Fried, Too! in a baking demonstration and book signing at King Arthur Flour in Norwich on Feb. 17. The demonstration, which will include samples, will cover potato leek pie with roasted jalapeno sauce, Moroccan potato stew with saffron biscuits and chocolate sweet potato pound cake.
The free book signing will take place in the retail store at 4 p.m. It will be followed by the demonstration, which costs $50, at 5 p.m. For more information or to register, call 802-649-3361 or visit kingarthurflour.com/baking-school/calendar.
Representatives from Vermont state agencies will offer a Brewery Day to help new and expanding breweries avoid common compliance issues on Feb. 23 at Langevin House at Vermont Technical College in Randolph.
The cost for the event, which will run from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., is $30 per person. For more information or to register by Feb. 10, visit dec.vermont.gov/environmental-assistance/compliance/brewery. Checks can be sent to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Megan Cousino, 1 National Life, Davis 2, Montpelier, VT 05620.
Cheers in The Green Mountains
Tunbridge’s Brocklebank Craft Brewing will host a brew-ski adventure at the Strafford Nordic Center on Feb. 4. For $10, plus a trail fee, participants over 21 can participate in tastings along the trail and in the lodge. They’ll also get a pint glass to take home. The event will take place from noon to 3 p.m. For more information, visit brocklebankvt.com/events.html or straffordnordicskiing.com/brewski.
A celebration of Vermont-crafted libations will take place on Feb. 18 from noon to 4 p.m. in Quechee. Products from across the state will be available to sample and buy, including from Hall Home Place, Citizen Cider, Stonecutter Spirits, Red Barn Brewing, Groennfell Meadery, Mad River Distillers, Silo Distillery, 14th Star Brewing, Tretap, Vagabond Vintner, Saxtons River Distillery, Barr Hill Gin and the Norwich Inn. The event will also include raffles, contests and prizes, as well as snacks from the Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co.
The event at Ski Quechee Base Lodge on Quechee Main Street is for people over 21, and will cost $5 at the door. For more information call 802-295-9356 or email info@quecheeclub.com.
Food for Good
Dine at Peyton Place Restaurant in Orford on Feb. 19 and March 19, and the restaurant’s owners, Heidi and Jim Peyton, will donate one-third of the evening’s revenue to the Orford/Fairlee Food Shelf. Reservations requested, 603-353-9100. The restaurant accepts cash or check only.
Recovery Assistance
Those struggling with food addictions are invited to participate in a 12-step recovery group that meets every Wednesday, including tonight, in Hanover.
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is geared toward those suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia.
Meetings take place at the Hanover Friends meetinghouse, next to Hanover High School, at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, call 603-630-1495, email kimhfromnh@gmail.com, or visit foodaddicts.org.
Nora Doyle-Burr can be reached at ndoyleburr@vnews.com or 603-727-3213.
