Event

Unsung: Chicories & Nettles

{A hands-on cooking class culminating in dinner served with wine.}
Tuesday, February 25, 6:00-9:00pm
$55 for members, $65 for the general public

Unsung illuminates the idea that some of the most delicious, enjoyable and memorable things to cook and eat are the foods most neglected in the modern kitchen. These ingredients are unlikely to make it onto your weekly shopping list, so our Program Director, Michelle McKenzie, uses her passionate voice and professional culinary skills to convince you to peruse without one.

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nettles
nettle + potato soup, whipped creme fraiche, chive
braised nettles with coconut oil, chile and brown mustard seeds, flatbread, cilantro

chicories
roasted cauliflower, Treviso, crispy speck
spelt and radicchio risotto
radicchio and chicken salad, walnuts, pickled golden raisins

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.

You can find Michelle at18 Reasons, or on her blog, Flavor in Spades.