Georges Guest Chef Series

DATE: January 14, 2009
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Georges’, 503 W. Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
PHONE: 610-964-8744
COST: $65.00

Aliza is honored to act as guest chef at Georges’, Chef George Perrier’s answer to casual stylishness on Philadelphia’s Main Line for a special dinner featuring recipes from her books Starting with Ingredients and Starting with Ingredients: Baking. This dinner is the first in a series to be held at the restaurant, which presents global cuisine with varied selections along with unique presentations. Cost: $65.000 All Inclusive (Dinner, Tax, & Gratuity). Wine Flights will be available. To book your reservation, please call Len Boris at 610-964-8744. For more information…

Georges’ Guest Chef Series

Baking Up Indulgent Delights

DATE: December 20, 2008
TIME: 2:00-4:30 pm
LOCATION: Foster’s Homeware, 399 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
PHONE: 215-925-0950 or 800-734-8511

In this free demonstration class, renowned chef and cookbook author Aliza Green comes to Foster’s demonstration kitchen to make recipes and sign copies of her new book Starting with Ingredients: Baking: Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Bake. Aliza will share her tips for a make-ahead holiday party featuring Cranberry-Ginger Upside-Down Cake, savory Stilton Scones, and a lusciously indulgent Cocoa Nib and Pecan Praline Chocolate Roulade. For more information…

Foster’s Homeware

International Baking for the Holidays

DATE: December 12, 2008
TIME: 5:45-7:45 pm
LOCATION: La Cucina At The Market, Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19107
PHONE: 215-922-1170

Join Aliza Green, celebrated chef and author, as she takes us on a personal tour of her new book, Starting with Ingredients: Baking. This international baking book is a guide to the world’s most delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, and tarts along with savory breads and pies with more than 350 recipes. Aliza will delight us with her recipes and her experience as a world traveling student of culinary history. You will also learn her easy techniques for successful baking using a digital scale. She will be making savory Cheddar and Chive Gougères, sweet Turkish Carrot-Hazelnut Phyllo Pastry Rolls, and choco-indulgent Chocolate-Kahlúa Silk Pie in Pecan Crumb Crust. Cost: $65.00. For more information…

International Baking for the Holidays

Savory & Sweet Holiday Fare

DATE: December 6, 2008
TIME: 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
LOCATION: The Cooking Company, In The Kitchen Cooking School, 10 Mechanic Street, Haddonfield, NJ 08033
PHONE: 856-489-1682 or 609-206-4511

In this hands-on class, students will learn to make four savory and sweet treats perfect for holiday celebrations from Aliza’s new book, Starting with Ingredients: Baking. A Date in a Blanket (curried-cheddar pastry wrapped dates filled with almonds): perfect with cocktails. Alpine Mushroom Pizza: an assortment of wild and exotic cultivated mushrooms top a pizza made from dark and delicious Potato-Rye Pizza Dough. Cicerchiata: small, fried bits of puffy egg dough are simmered in honey syrup with toasted nuts then formed into a festive wreath. Rigo Jansci: thin layers of chocolate sponge cake filled with dark chocolate-dark rum ganache are topped with shiny Mocha Glaze and cut into small squares. Cost: $65.00. For more information…

In The Kitchen Cooking School

Mediterranean Favorites Class

DATE: November 9, 2008
TIME: 6:30 pm
LOCATION: The Willows Cooking School, 3347 Old Stage Road, Central Point, OR 97502
PHONE: 866-665-3020

Aliza will be teaching her Mediterranean Favorites from Starting with Ingredients: Baking at The Willows Cooking School. The Menu includes Wild Oregon Mushroom Pizza with Potato-Rye Crust; Moroccan B’stilla of Chicken; Sesame Spinach Borekas, and Andalusian Bittersweet Chocolate-Sherry Cake served with warm Sherry Custard Sauce. The cost of the class is $60. For more information…

The Willows Cooking School

Mediterranean-Inspired Baking

DATE: November 6, 2008
TIME: 6:00-9:00 pm
LOCATION: Cook’s Pots & TableTops, 2807 Oak Street, Eugene, OR 97405
PHONE: 541-338-4339
EMAIL: info@cookspots.com
COST: $65.00

If you love the foods of the Mediterranean, this class at Cook’s Pots & TableTops is a chance to learn some wonderful new baking recipes and a salad featuring Oregon hazelnuts just in time for the holidays. Aliza is an excellent teacher and loves questions from students. The menu from Starting with Ingredients and Starting with Ingredients: Baking includes Autumn Apple-Hazelnut Salad, Wild Oregon Mushroom Pizza with Potato-Rye Crust; B’stilla of Chicken; Spanish Empanadas; and Spanish Orange and Olive Oil Cake. The cost of the class is $65. For more information…

Cook’s Pots & TableTops

AM Northwest

DATE: November 5, 2008
TIME: 8:30 am
LOCATION: KATU-TV ABC, Portland, OR

Aliza will be appearing on ABC television’s AM Northwest to talk about Starting with Ingredients: Baking, great holiday recipes, and making baking easy with a digital scale.

AM Northwest

Copperfield’s Books

DATE: November 1, 2008
TIME: 3:00-4:00 pm
LOCATION: Copperfield’s Books, 104 Matheson Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448

Meet Aliza Green, bring her your culinary questions, and get personally signed copies of her books including Starting with Ingredients: Baking and her Foodie’s Field Guides at Copperfield’s Books, just down the street from Relish Culinary School in Healdsburg. The book makes a perfect holiday gift for that curious baker while her Field Guides to Produce, Meat, Herbs & Spices, and Seafood are considered lifesavers by culinary students, food writers, chefs, and home cooks. For more information…

Copperfield’s Books

Global Baking In The Wood Fired Oven

DATE: November 1, 2008
TIME: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Relish Culinary School, 14 Matheson Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448
PHONE: 707-431-9999
COST: $85.00

Come learn how to bake in a wood-burning oven at this hands-on class at Relish Culinary School with recipes from easy-to-learn, outstandingly delicious recipes from Starting with Ingredients: Baking. The hearty, Mediterranean menu includes Simit (Turkish Sesame Bread Rings) served with Feta Cheese, Yogurt and Honey, and Black Olives, Lahmacun (Armenian Lamb Flatbread) with Pomegranate Molasses, Paprika and Pine Nuts, Turkish Feta Cheese and Egg Pide, Coccoi Prena – Sardinian Potato Torta with Pecorino Sardo, Feta and Mint, Spanish Apple Torta. The cost of the class is $85. For more information…

Relish Culinary Adventures

The Battle of the Beans

DATE: October 31, 2008
TIME: 3:30-6:30 pm
LOCATION: Tierra Farms, 651 Airport Blvd., Santa Rosa, CA 95403
PHONE: 707-837-8366

Are you a bean lover? If so, be sure to attend and/or participate in the Battle of the Beans to be held at Tierra Vegetables Farm Stand. The event features a Bean Cookery Contest with celebrity judges Aliza Green, award winning chef and author of Beans: More than 200 Delicious, Wholesome Recipes from Around the World, Steve Sando, owner, Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Foods and author of Heirloom Beans, and Mateo Granados, chef owner, Flavors of the Yucatan Catering. The event is co-sponsored by Ruthy’s Real Meals Home Delivery. Aliza will be personally autographing copies of her authoritative bean cookbook at the event. For more information, call Tierra (707-837-8366) or Ruthy’s (707-888-0128).

Tierra Vegetables