Jan. 27, 2000



Live & Learn Offers First-Ever Winter Mini-Session

CHICAGO - The first-ever Live & Learn winter mini-session is now underway at The Latin School of Chicago, offering nearly two dozen adult education classes. The classes will be held through mid-March and are open to the public for a fee.

This session's courses include a host of unique offerings including "Keep Warm with Russian Cuisine," on March 4, and "Vegetarian Cuisine is NOT an Oxymoron," on February 26. As usual through Live & Learn, adult students can also chose from a variety of fun-filled dance, art, fitness and language classes.

Instructors donate their time and resources to Live & Learn and proceeds from the program are gifted to The Latin School in support of scholarship and faculty grant programs.
Registration for all courses is required. To register or receive a free catalogue, call the Live & Learn Office at (312) 573-4698, or visit the Live & Learn portion of the Latin web site at, www.latinschool.org.

The following is a list of some of the more interesting single-session classes that are expected to have openings at press time:

Chinese Cooking: Basics and Beyond
Date: Saturday, Feb. 19, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: Last Minute Gourmet Catering, 1300 W. Hubbard St.
Course Fee: $25 Lab Fee: $15
If you've always loved Chinese cuisine, this is your chance to learn the basics and to use them to create many of your favorite dishes. A native of Hong Kong, Chef Benay Cheung of Last Minute Gourmet, will share his love of his native cuisine and teach you to prepare an appetizer (chicken cakes with soy glacee) and two main courses (braised Chinese vegetables with Chinese sausage and shrimp fried rice).

Vegetarian Cuisine is NOT an Oxymoron
Date: Saturday, Feb. 26, 1-3 p.m.
Location: Last Minute Gourmet Catering, 1300 W. Hubbard St.
Course Fee: $30 Lab Fee $10
Vegetarian cuisine is not an oxymoron - and, we've got the chef to prove it! You don't need meat for a nutritious and delicious dinner. Chef Jennifer Scherer of Last Minute Gourmet will share her own vegetarian creations. One taste will tell you that you don't have to give up flavor to live as a vegetarian.

Keep Warm with Russian Cuisine
Date: Saturday, March 4, 1-3 p.m.
Location: Last Minute Gourmet Catering, 1300 W. Hubbard St.
Course Fee: $25 Lab Fee: $15
Remember those winter scenes from Dr. Zhivago? Russians know how to create meals that warm the body as well as the soul. Join Chef Scott Bright of Last Minute Gourmet as he teaches you to prepare Russian specialties including kulebiaka (salmon, caviar and brioche); gowapki (stuffed cabbage); samsa (sweet walnut fritters) and kvas domashnii (a popular Russian beverage).

Royal Desserts
Date: Saturday, March 11, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Location: Last Minute Gourmet Catering, 1300 W. Hubbard St.
Course Fee: $30 Lab Fee: $10
If you like to treat your guests like royalty, join us when Last Minute Gourmet Corporate Chef David Dodd provides a morning of dessert recipes and stories from his years as Special Commitment Chef at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. You'll learn to prepare the Queen Mother's choice for favored guests, frozen lemon souffle, the almond créme that Margaret Thatcher offered heads of state at 10 Downing Street and the dessert Lady Monkton requested for King Leopold and Princess Lillian of Belgium - frangipan and cherry pie.


If you have any questions please feel free to give me a call at, (312) 573-4646.


Evelyne Girardet
Assistant Director of Public Relations