Food.Fun.Stuff: Cooking with Lauren & Bumble Bee Treats

>JKGF loves Lauren DeSantis!! (*Even though she beat us in the Chicken Pot Pie contest...) Well now she is bringing her talents to area cooking classes. On July 8th, DeSantis will be teaching a class on how to cook famous Moroccan dishes in a two-hour event starting at 7:00 pm. The event will take place at the famous Hill’s Kitchen, an independent gourmet kitchenware store located in the historic Capital Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC.

*How to get involved??: For more information or to reserve a space, log onto www.hillskitchen.com or send an email to events@hillskitchen.com with number of attendees, email address, and phone number.

>Buzz bakery, coffee shop, and dessert lounge will celebrate National “Don’t Step on a Bee Day” on July 10th to help raise public awareness of the crisis in U.S. beekeeping and the potential implications for the nation’s food supply. On Friday, July 10th, Executive Chef Josh Short will offer his Bumble Bee cupcakes, a signature creation of vanilla cupcake filled with a chocolate center, iced with vanilla butter cream and topped with a bumblebee, for $2.75 each. Other honey-themed treats flying out of Short’s kitchen will include, wildflower honey ice cream for $2.25 a scoop, “Bee Hive” sugar cookies for $2.25 each and Tupelo Honey panna cotta with fresh berries, priced at $3.95 each. Buzz will also give kids free “honey cups” - mini vanilla cupcakes with housemade honey frosting – available first come, first serve in honor of the special day.

*All for a good cause: Since October 2006, the American Beekeeping Federation has received reports from commercial beekeepers of a disquieting number of honeybee colonies dying in the eastern United States. The alarming die-off of honeybees has beekeepers struggling for gainful survival, and farmers wondering whether bees will be available to pollinate their crops this year.

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