Baby it’s cold outside. Let's warm up with a Northern Italian après ski class! Together we’ll learn some of Italy’s most delicious winter dishes, including:

• Casunzei, a beet and ricotta ravioli with poppy seed butter from Cortina, the famous ski resort town in the Dolomites.
• Polenta Concia con Salsa di Fungi, an enriched corn porridge finished with lots of cheese and topped with sautéed mushrooms, typical of the Alpine regions of Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont
• Frico Croccante, essentially Parmesan crisps, of the Friuli Venezia-Giulia region– the perfect snack while we cook together.

In the spirit of the Italian gastronomical ethos of comida nostrana (local food), we will utilize beautiful ingredients from our neighboring farms and producers in and around the Hudson Valley. Even in the dead of winter, there are still ways to incorporate provisions of our land.

This hands-on class (plus lunch) is limited to ten people.

Leah Guadagnoli is an artist, chef, and homesteader living in Hillsdale, NY. She is the founder of Fancy Feast Supper Club, a creative dinner series that brings people together through homegrown globally inspired vegetarian meals she prepares from her garden with passion, love, and a genuine curiosity for the overlapping flavors and techniques our expansive universe has to offer. Through extensive research and an ethically conscious appreciation of other cultures through food, her goal is to celebrate our commonalities and unique differences to form connections and better understand the world we share. When she's not busy in the kitchen, you can find her working in the studio making abstract sculptural paintings she's been exhibiting internationally over the past decade or tending to her garden with the company of her beloved flock of chickens.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware and cookbook purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY - at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.