Café Pinot‘s popular and personable executive chef, Kevin Meehan, is returning to Venice’s St. Joseph Center to teach a class called Learn How to Prepare an Elegant, Seasonal Meal. Proceeds from the cooking class go to support St. Joseph’s Culinary Training Program, a ten-week vocational class designed to help unemployed men and women get job skills. St. Joseph has a gleaming professional teaching kitchen that works as well for hands-on job training as it does for more casual cooking classes.

Students will learn how to make pan-seared scallops and spring pea broth with garlic essence; grilled sea bass with smoked herbs and farmers’ market vegetables; hanger steak sous-vide and sweet potato puree with blue cheese crumble; and chocolate lava cakes.

Of course, you get to eat the meal after you prepare it!

Culinary Experience for a Cause
Monday, May 24, 6 to 9 p.m.
Culinary Training Kitchen, St. Joseph Center
204 Hampton Dr., Venice
stjosephctr.org
Fee $120 per person or $200 for two; 50% of fee is a tax-deductible donation