Culinary Workshop: Vegan Cheese, Please!

Vegan Cheese, Please!

Wednesday, September 3, 2016, from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM (PDT)

This is your opportunity to learn how to make amazing, gourmet, whole-foods, vegan cheeses! Your guide Chef Beth Love, author of the upcoming cookbook series Tastes Like Love, will share recipes and tecniques for making cashew cream cheese, several flavors of semi-firm cheeses, and Parmesan-style cheese. Here is what you will get in this hands-on workshop:

• Recipes for several delightful nut-based cultured cheeses

• Techniques for masterfully implementing the recipes in your own kitchen

• Information about obtaining high quality, humanely-produced ingredients

• Overview of needed equipment and alternatives

• The opportunity to practice all the required skills for making phenomenal dairy-free cheeses

• A cheese tasting "party" including multiple varieties of cruelty- and cholesterol-free cheeses, crackers, and assorted tasty additions

• A ceramic mold for making your own cheese at home

• A small whole cheese to take home

• Follow up technical assistance after the workshop

• All ingredients and equipment provided, though you are welcome to bring an apron if you like.

All ages welcome and encouraged to attend.  Invite your friends!