Bread Camp Day 1: Focaccia
Focaccia
It’s Day 1 of Bread Camp – and we’re making Focaccia! This one-bowl, sheet pan bread that can double as your dinner and takes about 3 hours from start to finish. Join us for a 30-minute class filled with …
Take ‘Bread Camp’ Online
During this Stay-At-Home order, we have missed our students and the energy of cooking and baking side by side, watching our fellow chefs teaching through the glass doors, and working with our awesome team of assistants and dishwashers. It’s been …
“Beurre Noisette” How To Brown Butter
Brown Butter is a simple sauce, perfect to toss with cooked vegetables, pasta or potatoes. It’s versatile and can also be used as your base to sauté fish, meat or poultry.
In a heavy bottom pan, melt butter over medium
Meze: Middle Eastern Small Plates
ARTICLE BY: JOHN PITBLADO
The anticipation of your steak frites is palpable. You poured over the menu, waffled a few times between the meat and the branzino and finally pulled the trigger. The waiter approaches, makes eye contact and swings
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A Collection of Passover Macaroons
ARTICLE BY: RUTH KENNISON
How often does one cookie transcend holidays, food allergies and requires little else than a bowl, a spoon and 20 minutes of your time? The classic coconut macaroon is both gluten free and Kosher for passover,
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The Sweetest Valentine’s Day Gifts from Santa Monica’s Independent Cooking School
The Gourmandise School shares a few ways to get romance cooking in the kitchen with the perfect selection of experience gifts.
Make & Take Valentine’s Confections & Gifts
Monday, February 12th at 6:00 P.M.
In this four-hour class, students will …
5 Classic Kitchen Must-Haves for Gift Ideas
Stumped about whether to get the sold-out computerized coffee maker or spaceship-shaped pressure cooker? We prefer good, classic tools and ingredients to make your kitchen and cooking shine. Here’s five of our favorites, some of which you can purchase at
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Our Top 10 Chocolate Tips & Recipes
Chocolate is the most ever-present ingredient in our kitchen, and we only discriminate in its quality. I happen to adore the silky, malted textures and flavors of milk chocolate as much as the tannin-rich bittersweet ones, but each has its
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Your Thanksgiving 2017 Turkey Tips
The star of any Thanksgiving meal is and has always been the turkey. Crisp, brown skin and juiciness throughout are the hallmarks of a well-prepared bird. But very often, the turkey is bland, bone-dry and, quite frankly, disappointing. Fortunately, these …
The Grain Conference Keynote Speech by Dave Miller
Thank you all for coming and thanks to Clemence and the team here at Gourmandise School for asking me to speak. I’m honored to be here
I remember the first grain fanatic I ever met. I was managing a bakery …