Prepare your kitchen for the upcoming holidays with practical advice and effective strategies with Chef Fran Costigan. She has tips for organizing and optimizing your cooking space, and suggestions for dessert components that you can make ahead.
From smart storage solutions to time-saving kitchen trucs, she’s got you covered. Plus Chef Fran will help you stock your pantry with essential ingredients and holiday staples, ensuring you’re well-prepared to make recipes with ease. Here’s to getting our kitchen holiday-ready, for festivities without stress.
Plus, bring your best question for the Q&A session at the end to ensure your holiday desserts are the best they can be!
About Fran Costigan
Fran Costigan is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Trained at the New York Restaurant School and Natural Gourmet Institute, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching over 20 years ago. A lifelong chocoholic and long time vegan, Fran’s latest book, Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy Free Desserts, (Running Press 2013) is for all who madly, deeply love chocolate desserts, whether or not dietary considerations are an issue.
Her previous cookbook, More Great Good Dairy-Free Desserts Naturally (Book Publishing Company 2006) is the basis of the Costigan Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive®.
For more information, www.francostigan.com.
Tuesday, December 19th
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