FOOD
Parents And Kids Cook It Up Parents and children 8-14 years old will cook it up in the kitchen, preparing green salad and fresh dressing, turkey cutlets with honey mustard pan sauce, buttered green bean casserole with garlic bread crust, mango bar cookies and more. $50 for 1 adult and 1 child. 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at Home Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin. 727-736-6400 www.homegourmet.cc.
Chef Webber Bar-B-Q's Chef Eric Webber is back with his unique style of barbecue. Join him as he prepares basil-rubbed chicken pizza with red lentil hummus and asiago cheese, as well as maple-chipotle barbecue salmon with asparagus. $30. 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at Home Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin. 727-736-6400 www.homegourmet.cc.
Chef Bret Barbecues Join Chef Bret Mailhot as he teaches you to barbecue spice-rubbed filet mignon with sage oil, roasted garlic oil rubbed red bliss potatoes, cedar-planked mahi mahi with cranberry chutney and grilled asparagus. $30 includes class, food and recipes. 6:15-7:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, at The Big Green Egg Outdoor Kitchen Store, 3925 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. For reservations, call Bob or Greg at 813-875-3447.
Soy Suppers Vegetarian chef Debby DeGraaff teaches you to prepare super suppers using soy as the protein ingredient in these free classes. 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, and again 10-11 a.m. Thursday, May 24, at Nature's Harvest Market, 1021 MacDill Ave., Tampa. 813-873-7428.
Let's Have A Dinner Party Join Chef Dawn in this hands-on class and prepare a great dinner party menu of salmon cakes with ginger aioli and vegetable slaw, roast pork with red currant sauce, porcini risotto and maple-peach puff pastry. $45. 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, May 23. Home Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin. 727-736-6400. www.homegourmet.cc.
Comfort Foods With A Kick Chef Bret teaches you to prepare fried red tomatoes with shaved parmesan and basil drizzle, sauteed herbed carrots, lamb, gruyere mashed potatoes, roasted corn and caramelized shallots in casserole and more. $35. 7-9 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at Home Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin 727-736-6400 www.homegourmet.cc.
WINE
Merlot Mayhem Savor the tempting tastes of merlot in this dazzling array of five pure merlots and five savory blends of the beguiling grape. $10 per person. 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 25, at Vintage Wine Cellars, 3629 Henderson Blvd., Tampa. 813-879-2931
The Grape Escape Sample from a wide selection of over 2,000 wines from around the world with Jack Kocak, The Grapevine's Wine Professor, every Friday 4-7:30 p.m. and Saturday afternoons. Tastings are complimentary, informative and fun! The Grapevine at Westchase, 12125 W. Linebaugh Ave., Tampa. 813-818-9463.
Save The Everglades Tell the folks at Native Seafood you want to save the Everglades, and they'll give you a free bottle of wine! Native Seafood will serve a free bottle of Banrock Station chardonnay or merlot with every order for two dinner entrees, any Monday through Thursday until May 31. Banrock Station will donate a portion of its sales to the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation to promote and restore Florida's historic river of grass. Native Seafood is located at 5901 Sun Blvd., inside the Shopping Village of Isla Del Sol. Open for dinner only 4-9:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, and 4-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday. 727-866-8772.
This article appears in May 17-24, 2001.