C'est Si Bon! Cooks Up Seasonable Feasts For Spring

C'est Si Bon!, a cooking school located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is pleased to announce its upcoming Spring Seasonable Feasts small group cooking classes.

Join Owner and Chef, Dorette Snover, on Saturday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m. as she unveils a superbly enclosed Provengale-style dining porch and guides you through preparing "Carolina Coastal Beauties." The menu will consist of: Cajun peppered soft shell crabs with lime aioli hunched over mizuna and heirloom lettuces; asparagus tris simple; chipotle black-eye pea and a cool watermelon pickle slaw; and strawberries frangaise.

On Saturday, May 6 at 7:00 p.m., you'll be transported to the "Hills of Chianti - Cibo Buono!" With support from Chef Dorette, you will prepare the following menu: antipasti of crostini misti (finocchiona); pinzimonio, a tuscan crudite; panzanella, the famous salad; frittata con zucchini (collect the eggs and chop the zucchini!); orecchiette con pomodori e pancetta, a spicy (or not!) pasta with local ossabaw bacon; fragole con vin rosso e zuccero (strawberries with red wine and sugar); and pecorino con miele e tartufi (soft pecorino with truffle honey).

C'est Si Bon! is devoted to teaching technique rather than recipes. Chef Dorette believes passionately in cooking by the senses rather than strictly by the book. She says, "Spring and soft shell crabs, images of the wide soft hills of Tuscany and the season's first and sassiest panzanella; that's some of what we're about. But being with you in the kitchen and creating these feasts, well, that ingredient is irreplaceable. It's divine. Won't you join us in this sybaritic revelry for spring? "

The cost for each of these succulent feasts is $65 per person. Each class is limited to 15 people so register now at http://www.cestsibon.net. Seasonable Feast classes are held at C'est Si Bon!, located at 1002 Brace Lane in Chapel Hill. For directions or more information, contact Chef Dorette at (919) 942-6550 or dorette@cestsibon.net.

About C'est Si Bon!: C'est Si Bon! Cooking School specializes in teaching cooking techniques rather than recipes. Owner and Chef, Dorette Snover, is highly regarded for the cooking camps she offers to children and teens each summer. She also leads both teens and adults on culinary journeys to Provence and Tuscany, and she is currently creating itineraries for tours to Napa/Sonoma and Copenhagen in 2007. Through C'est Si Bon!, Chef Dorette also offers team-building cooking classes, private cooking lessons and monthly small group classes. Her sommelier husband, Rich Snover, can offer wine tastings or pairings for any of these events. For more information, call (919) 942-6550 or visit http://www.cestsibon.net.

Between baking calzones in her wood fired oven, Dorette is also a writer. One of her essays, "In the Kitchen", was published in an anthology of North Carolina women, The Secret to Their Success. Dorette contributed "Aboyer: The Little Announcer," a story about a butter-maker in Paris, for Women Behaving Badly. And an excerpt from her novel, City of Ladies, will appear this spring in Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat an Eye.

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