Have you ever wanted to learn how to make pasta at home? Then come spend a morning at Cookshop learning how! Our pasta guru, Leta Merrill, will be leading this class, and will show us how to make several different shapes using dough containing water and semola flour. This workshop will be very family friendly, and is great for kids as young as 4.
Please note, this class is priced per person. Please purchase a spot for each person attending.
What to expect:
We’ll make dough, shape, and cook a variety of pasta shapes.
Cocoa and tea during class.
Each family will take home the pasta they make.
Dough will contain wheat flour.
About our instructor:
Leta Merrill is a chef, mother, teacher, and pastaia. She discovered her love of pasta as a child over Sunday suppers at her Sicilian great-grandmother’s home. She decided to follow her passion for food and cooking and enrolled at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Upon graduating, she took a job as pasta cook at Union Square Cafe in New York, one of the city’s most popular restaurants. There, she honed her skills, grew a thicker skin, and continued her passion for pasta. Leta now lives in Portland, and spends her time cooking, eating, traveling, teaching pasta workshops, and preparing pasta from her designer kitchen. You can follow her work, sign up for workshops, and order custom pasta via her website and follow her adventures in pasta on Instagram @pastamaia.