Live Online Events

Chef, author and sustainable seafood expert Barton Seaver discusses how to support your local and small-scale fisheries by buying directly (virtually) from the dock. He will also share recipes and tips for understanding how to cook the catch of the day, no matter what the catch or the day.

Stuck at home and not sure what to cook? Join Chef Fran Costigan as she focuses on how to use what’s already in your pantry, fridge and freezer to make tasty, comforting treats.

The ‘stone soup’ folktale tells of a community of people where each member only has a small amount of food, but who are brought together to enjoy a large meal of ‘stone soup’ by coming together and sharing what they have. The moral of the tale revolves around the importance of sharing, power of community, and the promotion of the common good. This live event will highlight some things you can do in your own community to help bring people together, alleviate suffering, and offer hope to those in need through kindness and generosity. Whether it’s a restaurant supporting healthcare workers with free or reduced cost meals, individuals preparing food for their neighbors, or restaurants finding creative ways to use the product they have, there are many ways to engage and lift others during these challenging times. Please bring your ideas, examples, best practices - and be prepared to share.

Join Chef Rick Moonen and Chef Ken Rubin for a live web event to support those impacted by Coronavirus Covid-19. They will address how to get help, how to deal with insurance claims, getting legal guidance, renegotiating contracts and how to inspire your team to do more with less. Please bring your questions, links to resources you’ve found to be useful and examples of best practices.

Join Chef Barton Seaver in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Barton is ready to answer them all.

Join Chef Ken Rubin in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Ken is ready to answer them all.

Join Chef Rick Moonen and Chef Ken Rubin for an interactive live event that will highlight some of the significant and emerging developments within the food and hospitality sectors as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Rather than a formal presentation or lecture, Rick and Ken will share some opening remarks about the state of the industry, where help is most needed, and offer some perspective, guidance and inspiration for others.  We ask our audience participants to bring questions, suggestions, and resources to share with the group. We know that many in our audience will bring their own expertise and experience so we will invite everyone to contribute and add to the conversation with the goal being to help promote best practices and find ways to support those who are immediately impacted by the pandemic.

Join Chef Eric Wynkoop for this discussion of how different cooking techniques can develop the flavors of your meals in new and surprising ways. Like to broil? Try braising instead. Have you tried steaming or oven roasting your vegetables instead of pan frying? Chef Eric will explore which techniques can make your flavors reach new heights.

The secret sauce of unapologetically delicious, reliable desserts is recipe development and testing-testing-testing. Join Vegan Pastry Master Fran Costigan for an exploration of all the ways you can make your recipes better. Start with a reliable recipe from a trusted source. Then test to see if different plant milks, sweeteners, even the fat content in different cocoa powders and strengths of batches of agar powder matter. Sifting, grinding, kind of electric appliance or hand mix? It can feel endless. But the process is always rewarding and interesting. How far are you ready to go to refine your recipes?

Join Chef Ken Rubin in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Ken is ready to answer them all.