Nov. 24th: Wood-fired Pizza
Nov. 24th: Wood-fired Pizza
November 24th, 3pm to 5:45pm at Gracie’s Apizza
Our third Cooking by Hand workshop for November, inspired by the Paul Bertolli cookbook that has inspired Gracie’s restaurant, our setting for these workshops, and consequently its staff.
Join Brennan Johnson of Gentle Rhythms for a one-day class on making pizza. We’ll be covering all the fundamentals of the process, from the naturally leavened dough, to shaping and topping, and firing in the wood-fired oven.
Brennan will be demoing how to mix, ferment, and shape pizza dough. Participants will then have the chance to shape and assemble their own pizza before it gets baked in the oven. A couple of light snacks will be provided that participants can enjoy alongside their pizza. Wine by the glass and NA beverages from the Gracie’s drink list will be available for purchase on site.
We’ll also cover the basics of wood-fired baking and sourdough fermentation, and participants will be able to take home a small container of sourdough starter.
Capacity: 13 students.
Location: Gracie’s Apizza
7304 N Leavitt Ave, Portland, OR 97203
Time: November 24th, 3pm to 5:30pm
Instructors:
Brennan Johnson
Brennan’s fascination with food culture and history was catalyzed by a trip to Western Europe in 2009 to study communal brick ovens. He began baking bread soon after, baking out of his father’s own brick oven and selling at local farmers markets during his high school summers. He has a degree from Whitman College in Environmental Humanities — which, for him, meant exploring our culture’s relationship to food — an herbalism certificate from Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine, and has worked in restaurants and bakeries across the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Gentle Rhythms is a way to piece together those disparate experiences, combining his curiosity in food studies with his love of hands-on cooking. These days, he lives in Portland, Oregon, but is usually found on the road learning about foodways wherever he is.
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