Join Leta Norton, chef and pasta maker extraordinaire, for an evening of mixing, rolling, shaping and eating delicious pasta! This class will focus on handmade dough with semola flour and water. We’ll be making dough from scratch, talk about different types of pasta doughs, cover info on sourcing the best ingredients, and get plenty of hand-on time to shape.
What to expect:
Class will include all instruction, tools, recipes and ingredients.
Our dough will contain wheat flour.
There will be some demo, and lots of time for hands-on pasta shaping.
Class will end with generous samples of pasta, and each participant will leave with a box of the pasta they made during class.
CLASS DATE: Tuesday, March 13th — 6:00 - 8:00pm
About our Instructor:
Leta Norton 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 with her husband and their two energetic boys. She 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 Instagram @lemneats.