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Hamptons Cuisine
Summer 2005
Cooking Classes
With chef, restaurateur, food consultant and expert
Cynthia Sestito
If you have spent time in the Hamptons over the last fifteen years, most likely you have experienced the food of celebrity chef Cynthia Sestito. In her own restaurants (Webb City, 1 Ocean Road, Under the Clock) or with the menus she has created for (The Farmhouse, The Independent, The Star Room), she has kept diners dazzled and critics applauding…
“This is the most unbelievable experience I’ve had in the Hamptons†-The Southampton Press
“The hottest chef to put on a pair of mitts in the kitchenâ€- Hal Rubenstien, Details
“The Hampton’s Number One Chef †-page six, New York Post
“Innovations dot a menu, great hot weather match-ups from Thailand, Philippines and Mexico†-New York Times
In July – August, Cynthia is offering small, private classes, limited to eight students for six sessions. You will spend three hours each week mastering technique and preparing some of Cynthia’s signature dishes in a hands-on
environment and that concludes each session with a sharing of your sumptuous summer banquet.
“Hamptons Summer Cuisine†captures the unique and unadulterated resources of the eastern tip of Long Island. A true Hamptons cuisine –is the daily catch of fish, fresh heirloom vegetables from the local family farms, indigenous herbs, sea grasses, wood and cheeses. Created by nature, clean and simple taste conveys a sense of this unique place.
The course is designed to develop one’s instincts and feelings for food and in its preparation: from color to smell to touch...
Classes will include various grilling techniques, as well as Pale-smoking® a process developed by Cynthia that employs several cooking techniques working in concert in combination of local plant and herb life to perfume the food.
Classes meet once a week for six weeks, beginning July 2006
Scheduling begins the first week in April, which will be posted
here and a website to posted soon!
Course price which includes 6 classes = $ 570.00
A deposit of 35% to reserve your place (non refundable)
Payment to be paid in full 2 weeks before classes begin (non refundable)
If at all possible a make up class may be arranged at a charge of $35.00 per
missed class
Charge per class if you want to bring a guest is $125.00
Please message me if interested!
The New York Times/Virginia Heffernan
"Like Bravo's fashion winner "Project Runway," the channel's promising "Top Chef" flaunts terms of art and insiderism to give it authority."
Los Angeles Times/Paul Brownfield
"Top Chef" seems like a no-brainer, an extension both of the interactivity of TV cooking and the art-and-craft side of reality shows, in which people are actually making things as opposed to just asses of themselves."
San Jose Mercury News/Charlie McCollum
"The series has a familiar format, but the opening episode suggests it may have some real spark to it."