Sensational Soups

A hands-on cooking class culminating in dinner served with wine and beer.

Soup is widely considered a humble food. Indeed, many classic recipes stemmed from a desire to stretch scraps or small amounts of leftover meals. Yet humble needn't mean boring! In this hands-on class, Michelle McKenzie will show you how to make a simple bowl of soup truly sensational (and how to wield knife to get through vegetables safely and efficiently).

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duck pho
kabocha with caramelized chestnuts and pumpkin seed oil
tomato with coconut and curry leaf, crispy chickpeas
bright green with roasted brassicas, farro, fried capers, chile, mint

Michelle McKenzie is the program director and chef at 18 Reasons. She teaches cooking classes, curates the course calendar, and prepares the food for wine dinners and special events. She has a knack for making simple food seem special and is full of amazing tips for making every meal memorable. Michelle’s food seems at once healthy and hedonistic, elegant and effortless, and always attainable. 

Michelle graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in nutrition and a minor in biochemistry, giving her a deep understanding of food properties and their complex implications within the human body. She later graduated from The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, where she immersed herself in health-supportive cuisine prepared from whole, organic and seasonal foods. Michelle has worked at some of the best restaurants in the country, has been featured on the Cooking Channel, and has been a contributor for publications such as Sunset Magazine. 

Her first cookbook, Dandelion and Quince: Exploring the Wide World of Unusual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs, will be published by Roost Books in 2016.