Classes

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Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes from Chef Mary Ellen Rae at Personal Touch Gourmet

08/30/2014 |

I went to my first cooking class taught by Chef Mary Ellen Rae in April of 2010. My photos of…

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Thai Beef Salad from Patricia Rose at Fresh Food in a Flash Cooking Class

07/14/2014 |

I am a cooking class junky. I love going to cooking classes. So imagine my happiness when I was recently…

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Patricia Rose and Fresh Food in a Flash ~ Presents Weekday Dinners Cooking Class

03/26/2013 |

I love going to cooking classes, especially when they are participation and the students do the cooking. So when my…

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Cool Watermelon and Hatch Chile Gazpacho ~ From Grace-Marie’s Kitchen at Bristol Farms

08/26/2012 |

Last Saturday I attended The Red Hat Society Tea at Grace-Marie’s Kitchen at Bristol Farms in Manhattan Beach. I was…

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Studio Lighting Food Photography Class with Professional Food Photographer Christina Peters

04/02/2012 |

Isn’t this an outrageous photograph? The size? The colors? The sharp focus? This photo is not about a recipe, although…

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Natural Light Food Photography Class with Christina Peters and Amy Paliwoda

01/30/2012 |

This past Saturday I had the great pleasure of attending the Natural Light Food Photography Class taught by professional food…

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Camp Blogaway Bootcamp Revisited

05/23/2010 |

It was one week ago today that I returned from Camp Blogaway Food Blogger Bootcamp and I have been thinking…

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Camp Blogaway Food Blogger Bootcamp

05/09/2010 |

Next weekend I am going to be attending the Camp Blogaway Food Blogger Bootcamp, which is taking place at Camp…

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A California Avocado Day at Ciudad Restaurant for Cinco de Mayo with the Too Hot Tamales

04/26/2010 |

Last Saturday the California Avocado Commission hosted a Food Bloggers lunch and cooking demonstration at Ciudad with Mary Sue Milliken…

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Caesar Salad and Mary Ellen Rae’s Cooking Class

04/18/2010 |

As I have mentioned numerous times, I love to go to cooking classes, so when Mary Ellen invited me to…

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A woman with glasses smiling for the camera.Hello! My name is Lynne Hemer, and I am a woman obsessed with food and cooking, in search of new, unusual, exotic, and sublime ingredients and recipes. I love reading cookbooks, taking cooking classes, going to restaurants, photographing food, and blogging about it all! I hope you enjoy my website as much as I enjoyed creating it.

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