1. Every Day Gourmet is a series of cooking classes offered by Let Them Eat Cake and taught by Chef Jason Lucas. 
Tonight’s focus is “Summer Salads.” 6:30-9:30 p.m., 3805 S. West Shore Blvd., Tampa, $40 per person, 813-480-5466.
2. St. Petersburg Free Clinic – which provides temporary assistance for families and individuals in need of food, shelter, health care, limited financial assistance and referral information – offers a volunteer orientation session every third Tuesday of the month (today) at 3:30 p.m. The clinic seeks volunteer physicians and ARNPs for its Health Center as well as maintenance volunteers, and individuals to answer the phones and help serve food at the community kitchen. For more info, call Rebecca Russell-Gootee at 727-821-1200, ext. 114, or e-mail her at rrgspfc@yahoo.com.
3. Linda Taylor signs copies of her book, Great Women Exploring Nature: How Wild Florida Influenced Their Lives, at Nature’s Food Patch today. Attendees also enjoy organic wine and cheese. 4-7 p.m., 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater.
4. Stageworks Theater presents a staged reading of Texas, Religion and Murder: A Contemporary Tall Tale. The new play – about a Dallas minister with amnesia – is by 2007 Florida Longjohns Playwriting Competition winner Ed Stevens. 7:30 p.m., Shimberg Playhouse-Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, downtown Tampa, $5 (cash only).
5. MLB’s 2008 All-Star Game, the 79th Midsummer Classic, airs live at 8 p.m. on Fox.—Summer salad photo courtesy of toastforbrekkie.
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2008.