Price: $20.00 Member Price: $15.00 18 Reasons is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! As a part of the festivities, we are hosting a brunch on Saturday, June 23 to celebrate and thank YOU for all of the amazing work that you've invested into our Cooking Matters programs. Cooking Matters in the Bay Area has flourished because of health promoters, volunteers, and community members like yourself, and we would like to take…

Price: $105.00 Member Price: $95.00 A hands-on cooking class culminating in a family-style dinner, served with a glass of wine or beer. Eating whole requires learning new skills, and one of the most useful for home cooks is butchering chickens. With boning knives in hand, we’ll work together in groups to cut up and bone Vietnamese “walking chickens,” a free-range variety much loved for their firmer flesh and sweeter flavor.…

Price: $105.00 Member Price: $95.00 This class is a mix of hands-on cooking and demonstration; it culminates in dinner served with wine and beer. Most of us are familiar with where our produce, meats, and bread come from, but fewer of us know how seafood gets to markets and restaurants. Living so close to the source of nutritious, flavorful fish in California, we fortunately have a way of learning more…

Price: $80.00 Member Price: $70.00 A hands-on, collaborative cheesemaking course; each participant leaves with his/her freshly made cheese. Includes a cheese tasting of burrata, and a seasonal salad and bread to enjoy eating with your freshly made cheeses, and a glass of wine or beer. The most exciting cheese on the cheese board needs little explanation: burrata is fresh mozzarella filled with luscious cream and more cheese. You get to…

Price: $15.00 Violeta Sandoval, one of our Cooking Matters peer educators, graduated from culinary school in El Salvador before emigrating to San Francisco, where she has raised her beautiful family and shared her love of delicious food for the past decade. We first met her in a class at the Women's Building, and she has become one of our most beloved teachers and chefs. We are pleased to feature Violeta…

To celebrate our 10 years of community building and empowering home cooks in the Bay Area, we are throwing ourselves a party in the style of one of our past traditions, 18th Hour Café! We'll have a menu featuring craft beer and amazing wine curated by John Lee, selected cheese and charcuterie from Bi-Rite Market by Heather Biscoe Tarman, small plates, and Tartine bread; prices range from $3-$20. You'll be…

Price: $105.00 Member Price: $95.00 A hands-on, collaborative cooking class culminating in a family-style dinner served with wine and beer. Located in the South of France, Provence is widely known for its rolling hills of lavender, vineyards of celebrated rosé, and aromatic clusters of rosemary, thyme, oregano, and tarragon (herbes de Provence). Yet there is an unpretentious and practical side to the region, and such values can be seen in…