Culinary Calendar

FRIDAY

Healing Heart Gourmet Cooking, a cooking demonstration featuring a potpourri of heart-healthy foods prepared by chef Kusuma Cooray, 6:30 p.m. at Kapi‘olani Community College. A grazing of foods follows. Sponsored by the Queen’s Medical Center Heart Institute; free with the Healing Heart Coupon Book, others $20. Reservation deadline is Feb. 28. 547-4466.

SATURDAY

French Cooking: The Basics, a series of four hands-on classes on the basics of French culinary tradition. Classes will be held each Saturday March 3-24, from 8:30 a.m.-noon. Chef George Bouillon, founder of the French Institute of Hawai‘i, teaches under the sponsorship of Kapi‘olani Community College. $175. 734-9211.

What to Serve at Your Wine Tasting Party, a class with executive chef Elmer Guzman, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at Sam Choy’s Diamond Head Restaurant. Sponsored by Kapi‘olani Community College; $30. 734-9211.

Sanitation certification courses for working professionals in the food industry, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. today and March 10 at Kapi‘olani Community College. Course follows the National

Restaurant Association textbook; registration through Workforce Development Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, 586-8715.

Vegetarian Cooking Class, 2-3:30 p.m. at Down To Earth Lifestyle Center, 2515 S. King St. Free. Call 947-7678 for information.

A Connoisseur’s guide to the True Balsamico, 10:30 a.m., a tasting with Lynne Rossetto Kasper at Baci restaurant at Restaurant Row. Sponsored by Hawai‘i Public Radio in conjunction with the KHPR Wine Classic Auction and Tasting. $30. 955-8821.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper signs her books "The Splendid Table: Recipes From Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food" (William Morrow and Co. 1992, $35) and "The Italian Country Table: Home Cooking From Italy’s Farmhouse Kitchens" (Scribner 1999, $35) at 3:30 p.m. at Borders-Ward Centre.

BYOB-Pinot Noir, a wine and food event at 7 p.m. at the Pineapple Room. Bring your own bottle of pinot noir and share it with other guests while partaking of a five-course dinner by chef de cuisine Steven Ariel. Guests will include Chris Whitcraft and David Hirsch of Hirsch Vineyard. $49. 945-8881.

Huckleberry’s Health Happening, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., a live on-location radio broadcast on KHVH 830 AM featuring David Snow of Doctor Health Radio and Dick Allgire of KITV 4 news. The radio health party will take place at Huckleberry Farms, 1613 Nu‘uanu Ave., featuring contests, recipe demonstrations and fitness demonstrations. Free.

SUNDAY

KHPR Wine Classic Auction and Tasting at the Hilton Hawaiian Village hotel. "A Connoisseur’s Guide to the King of Cheeses: Parmigiano Reggiano," 11 a.m. with Lynne Rossetto Kasper; $30; Hirsch Vineyard Tasting, 11 a.m., $50; 1998 Pinot Noir tasting, 1:30 p.m., $50; Grand Tasting and Silent Auction, noon-3 p.m., $55 for HPR members, $65 at the door. 955-8821.

COMING UP

Spring Beer Dinner, 6:30 p.m. at the Parc Cafe at the Waikiki Parc Hotel. Pyramid Brewery provides select beers to accompany a five-course Euro-Asian dinner by chef Don Maruyama. $42 plus tax and tip. 931-6643.

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