In this special fall class, we’ll be joined by two local artists to make useful and edible art! We’ll learn to make egg pasta from Leta Merrill, and Anna VonRosenstiel of Carter + Rose will lead everyone in creating their own pasta bowl out of clay. This class will focus on shapes made with rolled dough like farfalle (pictured above), garganelli, fettucinni, etc, made with a dough containing eggs and pasta flour. Your clay creations will be fired in a kiln and available for pick up a few weeks after class.
What to expect:
Class will include all instruction, tools, recipes and ingredients.
Our dough will contain wheat flour and eggs.
Everyone will get to make their own pasta bowl, to pick up and use at home in a few weeks.
There will be some demo, and lots of time for hands-on pasta shaping.
Wine and beer available for purchase.
Class will end with generous samples of pasta, and each participant will leave with a box of the pasta they made during class.
About our instructors:
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.
Anna VonRosenstiel is the founder and creative mind behind Carter + Rose, a store and studio in Portland, Oregon centered around making beautiful and functional ceramic wares.
Anna has worked as a classroom art teacher, and started experimenting with clay so she could do ceramics with her students, and from there, her love of clay grew! Since then, she has focused on making handmade ceramic products, while running and growing Carter + Rose.
