Event

The Flavors of Hungary: Summer

Join instructor Michelle McKenzie as she pays homage the cuisine of Hungary. These amazing summer recipes uphold tradition while integrating a contemporary aesthetic and fresh creativity.

This three-hour hands-on course, will include the following dishes:

whipped farmer's cheese with pounded anchovy + toasted caraway, sprouted rye bread, summer vegetables

Transylvanian "bandits' beef" with heritage bacon, cornmeal dumplings, crispy shallots, paprika + dill

a simple salad of wild greens + heirloom lettuces

walnut cookies, powdered Four Barrel, vanilla sugar
fresh, seasonal fruit

Michelle McKenzie is 18 Reason's Program Director and Chef. She has a knack for making simple food seem special and is full of amazing tips for making every meal memorable. Michelle's food seems at once healthy and hedonistic, elegant and effortless, and always attainable. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in nutrition and a minor in biochemistry, giving her a deep understanding of food properties and their complex implications within the human body. She later graduated from The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, where she immersed herself in health-supportive cuisine prepared from whole, organic and seasonal foods. Since then, Michelle has worked at some of the best restaurants in the country and, most recently, spent five years directing NextCourse's Eat Ur Veggies program at Mission High School.