French apéro cooking series with chef Cécile Penot Dietrich

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 From 5:00 PM To 7:00 PM Add to Calendar 2023-09-26 17:00:00 2023-09-26 19:00:00 French apéro cooking series with chef Cécile Penot Dietrich What is more French and fun than enjoying an apéro with your friends? With this series, you will learn how to make 3 essentials of the apéro time: les choux, les verrines et les tartelettes. French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 From 5:00 PM To 7:00 PM Add to Calendar 2023-10-24 17:00:00 2023-10-24 19:00:00 French apéro cooking series with chef Cécile Penot Dietrich What is more French and fun than enjoying an apéro with your friends? With this series, you will learn how to make 3 essentials of the apéro time: les choux, les verrines et les tartelettes. French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 From 5:00 PM To 7:00 PM Add to Calendar 2023-11-14 17:00:00 2023-11-14 19:00:00 French apéro cooking series with chef Cécile Penot Dietrich What is more French and fun than enjoying an apéro with your friends? With this series, you will learn how to make 3 essentials of the apéro time: les choux, les verrines et les tartelettes. French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

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What is more French and fun than enjoying an apéro with your friends? With this series, you will learn how to make 3 essentials of the apéro time: ''les choux, les verrines et les tartelettes.''

French chef Cécile Penot Dietrich will teach you how to create 3 perfect recettes apéritives 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!

Tuesday, September 26 from 5pm to 7pm / SOLD OUT
Au menu: Les Choux

Gougères
Choux au saumon & crème chantilly salée

Tuesday, October 24 from 5pm to 7pm / SOLD OUT
Au menu: Les Verrines

Carottes parfumées & chèvre
Avocat, pamplemousse & crevettes

Tuesday, November 14 from 5pm to 7pm / SOLD OUT
Au menu: Les tartelettes

Quiches Lorraines
Tartelettes à l’oignon

All the workshops are in French

Series Pass

$185/$235

Session 1: Les Choux

$70/$85

Session 2: Les Verrines

$70/$85

Session 3: Les tartelettes

$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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