The Responsible Carnivore: Hands-On Cooking with Sustainable Meat

The Responsible Carnivore: Hands-On Cooking with Sustainable Meat

with Emily Peterson

Location: The Kitchen
Price: $125.00
Date: Sun, May 23rd, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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This class is part of the Intermediate Cooking-package.

Has Michael Pollan gotten you thinking about the impact your food choices have on the planet? Perhaps you saw Food, Inc. and swore of factory farmed meat for good. If so, congratulations! You've taken a huge step towards being an enlightened consumer.

But what now? There's no need to regift your steak knives. In this class Chef Emily Peterson will teach you how to make sustainable choices in the meat department and teach you some techniques for preserving the farm-based flavor. Taste grass-finished steak hot off the grill, rare breed pork from happy pigs and roasted chicken raised the way nature intended. We will discuss special cooking concerns and why it initially seems that "good" meat is so much more expensive. (*Hint: It isn't.) You'll return to the meat department an educated buyer and even better cook.

Our sustainable menu will include Crostini di Fegatini (Chicken Paté on Toast), Spicy Asian-style Pork in Butter Lettuce Purses, Chef Emily's Secret Family Recipe Lemon Chicken, and Grilled Marinated Hangar Steaks with Fresh Herb Chimmichurri. And, as no meal at Astor Center is complete without wine, a resident wine expert will lead you on a tasting tour of some organic, biodynamic, and natural wine pairings for your culinary creations.
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