Fun French Cooking with chef Cécile Penot Dietrich

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 From 5:00 PM To 7:00 PM Add to Calendar 2024-05-21 17:00:00 2024-05-21 19:00:00 Fun French Cooking with chef Cécile Penot Dietrich What is more French and fun than enjoying cooking with your friends? With this series, you will learn how to make essentials of the French cuisine: les financiers et les choux à la crème pâtissière. French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

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What is more French and fun than enjoying cooking with or for your loved ones? With Fun French Cooking series, you will learn how to make essentials of French cuisine: ''les financiers et les choux à la crème pâtissière''

French chef Cécile Penot Dietrich will teach you how to create perfect recettes that will impress your family and friends. After the cooking part, it is the apéro time! You will eat what you made while enjoying a glass of wine and chatting with your fellow French food lovers. As we say in France: santé!

Financiers et Choux à la crème pâtissière

$70/$85

Cécile Penot Dietrich

Cécile Penot Dietrich is a professional Chef graduated from CSCA professional Chef’s program. She created French in the Kitchen, a cooking class business in Arlington, MA, in 2015. She is passionate about sharing her decades long love for cooking with kids and adults by teaching a variety of classes including after school, corporate events, thematic classes.

Originally a French attorney by trade, changed my career path after her relocation to the Boston area, 15 years ago.

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