Sofra Bakery and Cafe
- When
- November 7, 2024
- Where
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Sofra Bakery and Cafe
210 North Harvard Street
Allston, MA
Join Chef Ana Sortun in a cooking class about one of her favorite products, olive oil. Guests will taste a few different oils and Chef Ana will demonstrate four easy sauces. Recipes include: olives and Za’atar, carrot tershi, ezme and baked feta with walnut and sesame, raisin and caper kerkennaise with Atlantic Salmon from Chile.
Highlights
- Event includes wine, and a recipe book to take home
- Event is a demonstration-style class. Sofra’s chefs will do the cooking and baking and you will get to do the eating and drinking.
- Proceeds will support the Jacques Pépin Foundation. Your ticket purchase helps transform lives through culinary education, and we deeply appreciate your generous support.
Details
- Event takes place from 6:00 to 8:30 PM
- For more information or to be added to the wait list, please contact Sofra Bakery and Cafe
- Jacques Pépin proudly supports our 90/90 Celebrations. While he can’t be present at all of them, we invite you to check our website for details on the events where he will joining in celebration.
Event Host
Ana Sortun
Chef, author, co-owner of Oleana, Sofra Bakery and Sarma
Hailed as one of the country’s “most creative fusion practitioners,” Ana Sortun was named the Best Chef Northeast by the James Beard Foundation in 2005 and has been lauded as “a culinary genius” by Boston Magazine and in Saveur. In 2015, 2016 and 2017 she was a James Beard semi-finalist for Outstanding Chef. In 2020 she was a James Beard finalist for Best Chef, general excellence.
Trained at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine de Paris, Sortun opened Moncef Medeb’s Aigo Bistro in Concord, and then honed her skills at 8 Holyoke and Casablanca in Harvard Square. She opened Oleana in 2001 where her creative take on the rustic-traditional cuisines of the Middle East and her interpretation of the flavors of Turkey continue to receive rave reviews. Ana and her business partner, Executive Pastry Chef Maura Kilpatrick, opened Sofra Bakery & Café in 2008. Then, in 2013, Ana, with chef Cassie Piuma, opened Sarma, a Turkish-style meze tavern.
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