Cooking 101: Six Weeks to More Joyful, Improvisatory Home Cooking (Southwest)
In this fast-paced class, enhance your confidence using amazing ingredients from the farmers' market or small and terrific local butchers and grocers. You will focus on basic techniques: build soups by layers, improve your knife skills, make pan sauces, pan-fry, sear, stir-fry, braise, high-temperature roast and make pizza. Learn the basics of food safety, storage, and use herbs and spices, and kitchen tools that make prepping faster, more effective and fun.
If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available or we are able to add additional sections.
Janice Grover
JAN ZITA GROVER has cooked, catered, run a professional kitchen, and taught classes for more than 30 years. An historian by training, she is particularly interested in the cuisine of other countries and the foods eaten by early settlers. Growing up in San Francisco, Jan was exposed to the food traditions of many Asian and European cultures. She loves teaching the basic techniques so people can improvise joyfully and skillfully on their own. In 2008, during the Great Recession, she created the “3 Days, 3 Ways” program of thrifty recipes for St. Paul's Mississippi Market.
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- Janice Grover
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| Thu, Apr 16th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Thu, Apr 23rd 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Thu, Apr 30th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Thu, May 7th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Thu, May 14th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Thu, May 21st 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
AE-62020-S26-SW-1
Online registration is overInstructors:
- Janice Grover
| Date | Time | Location |
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| Wed, Apr 15th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Wed, Apr 22nd 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Wed, Apr 29th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Wed, May 6th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Wed, May 13th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |
| Wed, May 20th 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Southwest High School |