Event

18@12

A new addition to the 18 Reasons calendar, 18@12 is a weekly cooking class and lunch in one sweet 60-minute package. The menu will change every week, but will always feature fast, informal fare composed of seasonal, local produce. This class is a combination of demonstration and hands-on.

This week's menu:

toasted rye berries, shaved kohlrabi, spring allium, pea shoots, pistachios
rhubarb "fool" with sheep's milk yogurt + rose sugar

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.