The Center for European Studies at UF is now offering European cooking classes at Take Away Gourmet.
Take Away Gourmet, a shop in Gainesville that offers classes, catering and meals to go, will host four $25 cooking classes this fall, including a Greek food class Sept. 23, Polish on Sept. 30, Slovakian on Oct. 14 and Italian on Oct. 21. Lemon chicken, Slovak apple strudel, leek and ricotta pie are some of the dishes students will cook.
A maximum of eight students will be in each cooking class. Each student that comes to a class will receive the ingredients, a prepared appetizer, the final meal to eat and a copy of the cookbook used for instruction.
Darleen Randall, head chef at Take Away Gourmet, started her business a year ago and calls her food “upscale comfort food.”
In the European cooking classes, Randall will be cooking along with Lia Merivaki, Chris and Dorota Caes, Zuzana Vatralova and Georgia Bianchi, members of the CES.
“The more senses you experience, the more you’re going to remember,” Randall said.
