Homestead offeres Italian cooking classes

From staff reports

Local writer Kim Schneider penned this great piece for the Grand Rapids Press titled “Get a taste of Italy during cooking classes at The Homestead Resort” about Italian cooking classes that the local resort will offer during Saturdays in March.

Read this excerpt below, or check out the entire piece here.

After a tasty and entertaining cooking class at The Homestead Resort in Glen Arbor recently, I now know you should never cook with wine you wouldn’t want to drink (ie: there’s no such thing as “cooking” wine) and you don’t dare substitute for San Marzano tomatoes a generic Roma that didn’t grow in the terroir at the base of Mount Vesuvius in Naples.

The resort’s first series of Italian cooking classes are as much about food history, tasting and fun as they are about technique as run by Italian-trained chef and history buff Chef John Piombo. The resort’s head chef for most of the past eight years, Piombo was trained at L’alberghiera Maria Mazzini in Genoa, Italy, where he also spent much of his childhood being inspired by whatever was cooking on his mother’s stove.