How fun is it to make bread? Bread is the staff of life and it is always delicious. If you are intimidated by making homemade bread, this hands-on class is for you. Breadbaker extraordinaire Margi Kahn demystifies the art and science of beautiful breads on Wednesday, December 12 from 10 am to 1 pm. Learn […]

the razor’s edge

eating local

The weather may be 85 degrees and muggy outside, but inside Kitchen Conservatory, it is ginger-spiced! Today we baked the gingerbread pieces for all the houses for our Gingerbread House classes in December. Since we make 200 houses, and each house has six pieces (four walls and two roofs), we baked 1200 pieces of gingerbread. […]

essential culinary skills

fresh peas from the garden

Wed, May 9, 2007

The Summer Cooking Class Schedule at Kitchen Conservatory is now posted online. Don’t miss out on some exciting new classes featuring grilling, vegetables, fresh herbs, fish, and much more. New chefs on the schedule include southern cook Carmen Collor, cookbook author Kristin Enkvetchakul, Darren Garmer of L’Ecole Culinaire, Chef Scott Oglesby of Truffles, Natalia Penchas […]

Tonight, the Riverfront Times hosted an “Iron Fork” competition among four great St. Louis chefs. The secret ingredient was Grand Marnier orange liqueur, a surprising choice and a difficult ingredient to use in savory dishes because it is so sweet. Flames were shooting up as the chefs liberally added Grand Marnier to their saute pans […]

Chef Mike Johnson has a number of successful restaurants (Roxane, BARcelona, Cyrano, Boogaloo, and more), because he has a magic touch in the kitchen and cooks extraordinary food. Johnson has taught many, many cooking classes at Kitchen Conservatory and has graciously shared the secrets of his memorable dishes: lemon mashed potatoes, crispy chicken quarters, coconut […]