A new store that will teach basic cooking skills to culinary amateurs and more advanced skills to gourmet cooks is preparing to open this month in Westgate Mall in San Jose.
Judith Ets-Hokin's HomeChef Cooking School and Kitchen Store plans to open Aug. 23. The new store will show how to turn ordinary cooking into extraordinary treats for the eyes, nose and taste buds, said a store spokesperson.
HomeChef was founded in 1972 in San Francisco by Ets-Hokin to offer Bay Area cooks the knowledge, tools and equipment to enjoy food at home. Since that time, she has taught more than 25,000 students at locations in San Francisco, Marin and Palo Alto.
HomeChef teachers all use a unique conceptual method to teach cooking. Teachers come from both professional and home environments and are certified at HomeChef through a training program.
A sampling of classes includes: basic cooking, seafood, baking, pizza, pastry, canning, French, Italian and Pacific Rim cooking.
The staff of the new store and cooking school has scheduled 13 complimentary tastes of HomeChef for local residents to find out more about the cooking school while learning to make roasted butternut squash and sage risotto.
The first class is planned for Aug. 23, 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Call the store, 374-3191, to register.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, August 21, 1996.
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