The one food that is served at virtually every Mexican fiesta is the tamale. Our expert instructors will teach you how to handle masa, make sweet and savory fillings, prepare corn husks and roll and steam tamales. At the end of class, we’ll toast with a glass of the best sangria this side of Guadalajara. Salud!

SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES Making and handling masa; making tamale fillings; rolling tamales using a “secret” time-saving tool; folding, tying and steaming tamales.

Hot or Mild Beef Tamales… Continue

Wine & Dine Fantastic Fall Festival

(847) 486-9005 - phone
mindovina@thecookingexpo.com

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6pm – 8:30pm
Chauncery Banquets
At Columbus Center
365 Surryse Road
Lake Zurich, IL 60047
FREE PARKING

Sampling a distinctive array of fine wines

In celebration of FALL!
The night will feature:
Unlimited sampling of Food and Wine
• Butternut squash soup
• Sweet pota… Continue

You're invited to Sweet Collective's annual holiday party on Saturday, December 12. Come in and sample some holiday treats, sip champagne, and pick up some stocking stuffers!

Sweet Collective
5333 N. Lincoln
Chicago, IL 60625
773.293.0888

fall hours:
wed-thurs 11 am- 6 pm
fri-sat 11 am- 7 pm
sun 12pm - 4pm

Rich Chocolates & Candies has the perfect hostess gift for your Thanksgiving dinner! Our milk chocolate "turkeys"… Continue

Grab your sugar, grab your spice - and run, run, fast as you can!

The Aurora Regional Fire Museum (Aurora, IL) will host a gingerbread FIREhouse contest, exhibition, and charity raffle for the holidays. All entries must depict a firefighting themed architectural structure, real or imaginary — IE… Continue

The Beautiful Copernicus Center Theater at 5216 W. Lawrence Ave
in Chicago is now home to The Food Feastivals, kicking off on
Tuesday, November 17th from 6:00- 9:30pm. The Feastivals will
feature samplings at food vendor tables, as well as wine, beer,
and alcohol tastings. The Feastivals will center around
multiple food & cooking programs on various topics, recipes,
and food related themes. There will be spa treatments, crafts,
ladies accessories, kitchen gadgets, state of the art cookware,… Continue