Unlike taxidermy, cooking classes encourage people to share a newfound skill at dinner parties. Treat friends, family, or character actors portraying your friends and family to the fruits of your labor with today's Groupon: for $45, you get a basic pasta-making techniques class at Cooking Fools in Wicker Park (an $84 value including taxes).
At Cooking Fools, you get a hands-on experience creating delicious recipes from scratch, learning helpful cooking techniques along the way. Basic Pasta Making Techniques is a hands-on class that teaches aspiring line cooks to make pasta from scratch, along with a variety of tasty, easily crafted sauces and accurate, full-sized reproductions of the Statue of Liberty out of fettuccini. A mid-class tasting will whet your whistle for the post-class pasta dinner, and you'll depart with a handout of helpful tips. You can also purchase wine, beer, and sodas before the class. See the class schedule for dates and times.
The friendly staff at Cooking Fools wants to make the learning experience a fun social event where you may meet your next best friend, lover, or tiny chef imprisoned inside the cupboard of your soul. Because Cooking Fools focuses on teaching cooking techniques and principles rather than particular concoctions, you'll be equipped with new skills that extend beyond the recipes learned in class, increasing your overall confidence in the kitchen and during back-alley chef competitions.
Reviews
Yelpers give Cooking Fools a four-star average, and all eight Urbanspooners recommend it:
- In a relaxed, almost domestic setting, with our aprons donned and with some expert chef instructions, we chopped, stirred and sauteed our way to produce some pretty good stuff and had a lot of fun doing it. – Deepa J., Yelp
- We were…brought to the classroom to learn how to make stuffed chicken breasts and great sides…Nobody felt rushed, nobody left hungry and we all had a great time. – Michelle H., Yelp
- The staff is really friendly, even took pictures for us, and the chefs were walking around helping when needed, laid back, etc. – Melissa W., Yelp
Groupon Says
The Wisdom of Fools
Today's deal garners you the wisdom of fools, which, as William Shakespeare's plays have taught us, is actually secret double-reverse wisdom. Theater buffs are most likely familiar with the Fool who speaks cryptic truths to King Lear, or the impish Puck who hides the audience's shoes during A Midsummer Night's Dream, but what about these more obscure Shakespearian fools?
- Lupin, the Juggling Otter of A Fairly Fine Situation
- The Whistling Lye Peddler who appears in Two Gentleman of Macedonia and Their Erstwhile Gamblings
- Falstaff, the man-impersonating bag of writhing insects who appears in Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and the third one where they're cowboys
- Theodore Ogelvie of The Apple Dumpling Gang
- Clownelius Fallsdown Blunderfoot, a 7-foot-tall anthropomorphic swallow that only Hamlet can see and hear
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