Basic Knife Skills
A hands-on in-person cooking class culminating in a dinner served with wine and beer. Chef knives will be provided to students for in-class use. This class is limited to 12 students. Review our registration and cancellation policies here.
Join Chef Helena Zindel for a class in the basics of using your chef's knife at home. We will discuss the ins and outs of knife use, care and safety. You will walk away knowing how to maintain a sharp edge and the best way to cut vegetables and herbs. This is a great class for beginners.
This class includes our Knife Skills manual for reference when cooking at home. The vegetables cut in this class will be used to create a delicious salad, with a shared buffet of vinaigrette, fried shallots, minced chili, roasted peanuts, and optional roast chicken meat to garnish. Wine, beer and bread will also be served.
If you have allergies or dietary restrictions that concern your ability to cook along, please e-mail info@18reasons.org before purchasing a ticket.
Let’s Cook Together!
Helena Zindel’s work at 18 Reasons is driven by her belief that access to nutritious and affordable food is a human right. From a young age, Helena’s family couldn’t keep her out of the kitchen; she chose to write and self-publish a cookbook at age twelve and began working at her neighborhood bakery a few days after she was old enough to be legally employed. Her work as the Chef and Teen Culinary Arts Program Manager at Soil Born Farms ignited her passion for teaching cooking in community settings. Helena continued to pursue her passion for food justice while working to increase food access & security for newly arrived refugees with the Internal Rescue Committee in Sacramento. Helena has been catering independently since she was in High School and runs her own catering company to this day, when finds time outside of her work as the Assistant Program Manager for Cooking Matters at 18 Reasons. When she's not busy making a big pot of beans or baking sourdough loaves for her neighbors, Helena can usually be found catching up on cookbook reading, bike riding through Golden Gate Park, and hunting for the best breakfast sandwich in the city. Helena is someone who deeply believes in the power of home cooking in changing people's lives for the better and is thrilled to be a part of the team here at 18 Reasons.
