Join Leta Merrill chef and pasta maker extraordinaire, for an morning of mixing, rolling, and shaping pasta! This class will focus on rolled pasta shapes, made with a dough containing 00 flour and eggs. We’ll be making dough from scratch, talk about different types of pasta doughs, cover info on sourcing the best ingredients, and get plenty of hands-on time to shape.
What to expect:
Class will include all instruction, tools, recipes and ingredients.
Our dough will contain wheat flour and eggs.
There will be some demo, and lots of time for hands-on pasta shaping.
Wine, beer and kombucha available for purchase.
Each participant will leave with a box of the pasta they made during class.
Please note, this class is priced per person. Please purchase a spot for each person attending. Class is great for kids aged 4 and up.
About our instructor:
Leta Merrill is a chef, mother, teacher, and pastaia. She discovered her love of pasta as a child over Sunday suppers at her Sicilian great-grandmother’s home. She decided to follow her passion for food and cooking and enrolled at the Oregon Culinary Institute. Upon graduating, she took a job as pasta cook at Union Square Cafe in New York, one of the city’s most popular restaurants. There, she honed her skills, grew a thicker skin, and continued her passion for pasta. Leta now lives in Portland, and spends her time cooking, eating, traveling, teaching pasta workshops, and preparing pasta from her designer kitchen. You can follow her work, sign up for workshops, and order custom pasta via her website and follow her adventures in pasta on Instagram @pastamaia.