Literally Literary Cooking...

I have been invited to do a series of cooking classes with a book theme and I have having *way* too much fun thinking about it. The current plan is:

- The Joyce of Cooking (meal drawn from the pages of Joyce and/or the cookbook of the same name.

- Death for Dinner (mystery theme ala Someone's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, Thou Shall Not Grill, etc.)

- Call of the Wild (London, et al...I'm thinking venison in a fig sauce with wild mushroom and a starter of rattlesnake or something similar)

- Treasure Island/Robinson Crusoe: Jewels of Caribbean Cuisine

- Passage to India (pretty clear)

- Art of Cooking: Sun Tzu in the Kitchen (principles of Art of War for bringing complex meals to the table with ease)

- Sherlockian Smorgasbord (a buffet from the pages of Holmes)

I am still in the very early stages of planning the classes, but it should be really fun. I will have assistants who will do the shopping and prep (and cleanup) and get products for “menu development” It will be interesting to see how it works from a marketing standpoint…it seems likely that the people who attend this dinner/class series overlap solidly with my target market. More as it evolves.