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  • Saturday, November 7, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Food for Celebration: Vegetable Focused Share-Fare with Alana Chernila

    Want to go beyond pigs in a blanket and cocktail shrimp? Join cookbook author and Guido’s Marketing Manager Alana Chernila for a hands-on class to bring vegetables to the party. We’ll start with chickpea salad in endive boats, move on to broccoli raab and cheddar party toasts and finish with sweet potato latkes with roasted applesauce. All Berkshire Botanical Garden cooking classes are sponsored by Guido’s Fresh Marketplace. 

    Alana Chernila is the author of three cookbooks, The Homemade Pantry, The Homemade Kitchen, and Eating From the Ground Up: Recipes for Simple, Perfect Vegetables. She also writes, cooks, teaches cooking and cheese making and blogs at EatingFromTheGroundUp.com. Alana is the marketing and special events manager for Guido’s Fresh Marketplace in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.

    Masks required. BBG members $40, nonmembers $55. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/food-celebration-vegetable-focused-share-fare-alana-chernila

  • Saturday, March 2, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Winter’s End: A Feast to Celebrate the Transition of the Seasons

    Eating seasonally can get a little tricky in the time between the seasons. On March 2 from 2 – 5 at Berkshire Botanical Garden, join cookbook author Alana Chernila for meal to the transition from winter to spring with a menu from her three cookbooks. This will be a hands-on class, so push up your sleeves and get ready to make Winter Borscht, Herb and Goat Cheese Popovers, Radicchio and Chickpeas with Creamy Lemon Dressing, and Baked Apples with Maple Ice Cream. We’ll discuss how to find and store the best vegetables, as well as tricks to bring out the best in every root and leaf. We’ll wrap it up with a light meal together, to truly celebrate the bounty of the Berkshires.

    Alana Chernila is the author of three books: The Homemade Pantry, The Homemade Kitchen, and Eating From the Ground Up: Recipes for Simple, Perfect, Vegetables. She also writes, cooks, teaches cooking and cheese making, and blogs at EatingFromTheGroundUp.com. Alana is the Marketing and Special Events Manager for Guido’s Fresh Marketplace in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.  Sponsored by Guido’s Fresh Marketplace. $45 for BBG members, $55 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/winters-end-feast-celebrate-transition-seasons

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  • Saturday, September 22, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Dinner from the Ground Up: A Menu to Welcome Fall

    Join cookbook author Alana Chernila on Saturday, September 22 from 2 – 5 in the Center House at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge for a meal to honor the gorgeous vegetables of the New England Fall with a menu from her new book, Eating From the Ground Up: Recipes for Simple, Perfect Vegetables. This will be a hands-on class, so push up your sleeves and get ready to make watermelon radishes with herb compound butter, scarlet turnip galettes with from-scratch pie pastry, miso greens, and butternut squash custard with bourbon pecans. All vegetables will be sourced locally and at their peak. We’ll discuss how to find and store the best vegetables, as well as tricks to bring out the best in every root and leaf. Students will share a light meal together to truly celebrate the bounty of the Berkshires. All participants will receive a free signed copy of Eating From the Ground Up.

    Alana Chernila is the author of three books: The Homemade Pantry, The Homemade Kitchen, and Eating From the Ground Up: Recipes for Simple, Perfect, Vegetables. She also writes, cooks, teaches cooking and cheese making, and blogs at EatingFromTheGroundUp.com. Alana is the Marketing and Special Events Manager for Guido’s Fresh Marketplace in Great Barrington and Pittsfield.

    Kitchen classes are sponsored by Guido’s Fresh Marketplace.

    Advance registration is highly recommended, but walk-ins are always welcome, space permitting. $55 for BBG members, $65 for nonmembers. Register at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

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  • Wednesday, November 18, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure

    How do we help our children become more confident, able, and independent in the kitchen? Join Alana Chernila for an evening of exciting ideas, strategies, and simple ways to empower kids in the kitchen. This night in the Parkman Room of the Elm Bank Education Building at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, will be useful for parents, caregivers, and educators of children of all ages.

    Alana Chernila writes, cooks, sells fresh vegetables, and teaches cheese making. She is a graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe and lives with her husband and two young daughters in western Massachusetts. Her first cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making, was published by Clarkson Potter in Spring 2012. Her second book The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes For Cooking With Pleasure, will be published by Clarkson Potter in Fall 2015. Visit Alana online at eatingfromthegroundup.com. Proceeds will help support the Garden to Table Program. Lecture Fee: Mass Hort Members $20, Non-Members $25. Register on line for this November 18 lecture, which begins at 7 pm, at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/198/422|427|430|433/the-homemade-kitchen-recipes-for-cooking-with-pleasure?filter_reset=1