Christy F.
Yelp
What a lovely space!!!!!!!!!!!! I was here for a canning class, hosted by Food Swap Tucson. Lorraine Glazar schooled us on traditional water bath canning. Water bath canning requires no fancy equipment and is easy to do at home. Lorraine shared her esoteric recipes for tomatoes, prickly pear preserves and an onion relish. We even got to take home the jelly and the onion relish....I was really lemming for the tomatoes too!
FAQ:
Q: What is Food Swap Tucson?
A: It is an uber cool group of bakers, gardeners, cooks who assemble and swap food! They also, host canning classes!!!!!!! I believe the next one is going to be on olives. I should mention, you may be swapping and hob nobing with some of the chefs who host underground supper clubs.
I was so jazzed to work inside of the 1, 300 sq. ft. commercial kitchen, something I had never done before. This kitchen is brand spankin new, sparkly clean, top notch equipment. 6 burners, 2 commercial grade ovens, plenty of preparation and packaging room, two steam trays, two chilled sandwich tables, 40 lb. fryer, broilers, and the refrigerator/freezer/dry storage space. What an asset to the community....esp. small craft local food businesses! Even many of our tasty food trucks use the space. They have lockers to store your equipment (you need to bring your own pots/pans) for the frequent patrons.
Get this! You can rent it between 5 and 20 dollars an hour! I seriously am considering putting on some Indian and Thai cooking classes to share my mad skills.
After class, I checked out the bakery, the taqueria, the brasserie, and sno cone place.....all looked really nice. People were noshing on pasteriesand scrumptous Mexican egg dishes in the open air courtyard under the cerulean sky, while two musicians merrily played some sweet tunes.
I spied some super cool locally-made products for sale, some really cool jewelry and some lucha libre pinatas that could festoon the best of the best shin digs!
Pictures coming soon.