The Mezze Table with Miriam Rubin

Often the most delicious and beloved tastes at Middle Eastern restaurants are the small, shared plates of salads and dips, the Mezze. In this class Chef Miriam will prepare an array of Mezze, displaying different techniques and methods to make these flavorful dishes. They’re all vegetable or dairy-based, so besides delectable, they are quite healthy. Once everything is made, we’ll have shared meal of dips and spreads with fresh vegetables and griddled pita bread. Menu to include: Whipped Spiced Feta Matbucha Tzatziki Creamy Hummus with Zhug Muhammara Spiced Labneh Chunky Eggplant Salad Griddled Pita & vegetable dippers This demonstration class (plus lunch!) is limited to ten people. CLICK HERE TO SAVE A SPOT About Miriam Rubin: A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Miriam was the first woman in the kitchens of NYC’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. She’s a former food editor of Weight Watchers Magazine. Her first cookbook, Grains, was published in 1995. For nine years, she wrote a food and garden column “Miriam’s Garden” for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has contributed features to their food pages for about two decades. Her work has appeared in Prevention, Organic Gardening, Redbook, Working Woman, Working Mother and Woman’s Day. She was line-editor for Gil Marks’ Encyclopedia of Jewish Food and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Appalachia and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink Vol. 2. She’s Americanized several cookbooks and reworked and Americanized British recipes for websites. Her book, Tomatoes, grew out of a love of planting and devouring a favorite vegetable (fruit). She presented on the book at the Harvest Festival at Monticello and at Beard on Books at the Beard House. Miriam and her husband have recently relocated to the Hudson Valley from Southwestern Pennsylvania. Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets. Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware 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. HGS Home Chef – 2635 NY-23, Hillsdale NY – 518-325-7000. Plentiful parking behind the shop.