Love food but not so confident when it comes to navigating your own kitchen? Cape Fear Community College’s Division of Continuing Education is ready to help take your culinary stills to the next level.
 
Internationally trained and award-winning chef Gwen Gulliksen will lead a series of summer classes in which students will participate in hands-on food preparation and learn new cooking and plating techniques.
 
Two summer series will be featured. In the Hands-On Kitchen Basics series, Gulliksen will share culinary tips and techniques for a variety of basics from homemade pasta and pesto to biscuits, seasonal relishes and fresh fruit tarts. This series begins May 31, and classes will meet Tuesday nights 6-8 p.m. for seven weeks. Each two-hour course costs $40, and registration fees include the class, samples and/or take-away food.
 
The Seasonal Summer Supper Series will feature local family farm products and fresh seasonal recipes. The menu will change weekly, depending on what’s available from the farmers market. Classes begin June 1 and will meet on Wednesday nights 6-8 p.m. for seven weeks.

Gulliksen has 30 years’ experience as a chef and culinary teacher in California, Virginia and Maryland. She has cooked in Italy, Mexico and Japan and has worked with Robert Mondavi, Jean Louis Palladin and Madeline Kamman. She was also selected as the 2000 recipient of the Julia Child grant to study culinary arts in France. She currently teaches full-time in the CFCC culinary arts program.
 
For more information, or to register for these classes, click here or call 362-7254.
 
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