QUICK BITES
Top Island chefs will teach classes

By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor

Now two local businesses that do event management and web development have launched a joint venture, Gourmet Cooking Hawaii, offering just this kind of class — Saturday morning courses at restaurants around town.

Instructors include chefs Donato Loperfido (Donato's, pictured) Goran Streng (Hawaii Prince), Mariano Lalica (Meritage) and Pierre Padovani (Padovani's). Other participating restaurants include Chef Mavro, Tiki's Grill & Bar and Sam Choy's. Each three-hour class is limited to 30 people and includes instruction, copies of the recipes, a food sampling, a certificate of completion, a $20 restaurant gift certificate and gifts. Cost is $85. Classes begin Jan. 10 and are scheduled throughout 2004; more are being added. Check the schedule at www.gourmetcookinghawaii.com or call 550-2585.

Cuisine at Home is kitchen-friendly

Cuisine at Home is a magazine you might want to put on your holiday wish list. It thinks like a home cook: It's hole-punched so you can keep the magazine, or individual pages, in a ring binder. Every recipe is illustrated with photos and generally confined to a facing pages so you don't have to turn the page with messy fingers. The December issue has easy and elegant retro holiday dinner ideas (Baked Alaska, Beef or Pork Wellington, stuffed lobster tails). To subscribe ($24 a year): www.CuisineAtHome.com or (800) 311-3995.

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