The High Holiday Table: Cooking with Michelle

Join Michelle Dodek for this 3-part series (or select your preferred classes) featuring recipes, cooking, stories, tradition and history from Sephardic and Ashkenazy traditions. The final class will feature recipes using local and in-season ingredients.

The classes are open to adults and mature teens who can work independently.

Registration Deadline: August 28th

Class 1: The Sephardi-Mizrachi High Holiday Table

Tuesday September 2, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Discover the fascinating symbolism behind the traditional foods on the tables of Jews
from Spain to Persia and everywhere in between. These colourful delicious foods are a gateway to spirituality, community and religious observance while being satisfying and tasty. In this class we will prepare three dishes which we will sample during class with recipes to take home.

Class 2: The Ashkenazi High Holiday Table

Tuesday September 9, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Go beyond pickled tongue and fish heads. We’ll dig into the European Jewish foods
important symbolically and practically for high holiday observance. Prepare 3 dishes that may be evocative of your Bubbie’s table or are brand new to you that you’ll take to your family and incorporate into your tradition.

Class 3: The Local High Holyday Table

Tuesday September 16, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Rosh Hashanah is about new beginnings. This year, embrace your local food scene and
learn how to incorporate locally available seasonal produce into your high holiday celebration. We will make something new from traditional ideas imbuing the kind of Jewish reasoning that has kept the Jewish people both rooted in tradition and relevant to our current time and place.

Early bird pricing available until Monday August 18

$50 per class

$135 for the series

Pricing after August 18:

$55 per class

$150 for the series