Event

Food Craft: Urban "S'mores" with Karen Solomon

Friday, October 25, 6:00-9:00PM
A hands-on cooking class and family-style dinner; wine and beer will be served.

Channel your inner child!

What happens when homemade graham crackers collide with homemade marshmallows, and together they get dunked in dark chocolate? Taste buds have been known to explode. Call it a homemade Mallomar or an urban s'more; however you name it, it will be outrageous, over the top, and delicious. While all of the components could be made in your own kitchen, it will be far more fun and social to craft these luscious treats as a group and enjoy them ensemble - no campfire required. A sticky, silly time will be had by all.

We don't think that picnics should be reserved for summer months and park lawns; this is San Francisco after all! To that end, this class will culminate in a family-style dinner reminiscent of a classic outdoor meal: Bi-rite market's bbq chicken, a salad of early autumn vegetables, olive oil potato chips, local pickles, and, of course, homemade s'mores!

Karen Solomon has been a well-published food writer for over a decade. In addition to the Asian Pickles series, she's also author of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It and Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It (Ten Speed Press/Random House). Additionally, she's the author of The Cheap Bastard's Guide to San Francisco (Globe Pequot Press) and contributing author to Chow! San Francisco Bay Area: 300 Affordable Places for Great Meals & Good Deals (Sasquatch Press) and a former contributing editor to Zagat Survey: San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants.

Her edible musings on DIY cooking, the restaurant scene, sustainable food programs, culinary trends, food history, and recipe development have appeared in Saveur.com, Fine Cooking, Prevention, Yoga Journal, Vegetarian Times, Food52, Organic Style, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and elsewhere, all of which showcase the diversity of her word-wrangling plate.