MANSFIELD — Altered Eats is cooking up something special for the summer.
The restaurant on wheels is going to offer cooking classes and a local food dinner series at the Mind Body Align Entrepreneurs’ Kitchen.
The first cooking class will be on June 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Entrepreneurs’ Kitchen, located in the lower level of the Barrington One Building at the corner of Park Avenue West and Walnut Street.
During this inaugural class, Anne Massie, owner of Altered Eats, and Desra Wells, owner of Blackbird Bakery, will walk participants through the basics of baking with a bread-making demonstration and lesson on how to make the “perfect” cookie. Participants will have the chance to sample baked goods and take home printed recipes.
The other classes include “Cooking For Your Health” and “The Secrets of Scratch Pie Making,” which will be Aug. 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Oct. 7 from 7 to 10 p.m., respectively.
Classes cost $80.
The dinner series kicks off July 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. Nicholas Copley, co-chef and forager with Altered Eats, will join Massie in creating a four-course dinner using locally sourced ingredients. Each dinner will highlight a farm, the first being Front 9 Farm in Lodi.
“All of the dinners will be in a lecture format where we’ll talk about how came up with the menu items with the farmers, our thought process behind it, and then they’ll (the farmers) talk about local foods and their farm and tell funny stories,” Massie said.
Other dinners will be July 29, featuring Joan and Reed Richmond of Meadow Rise Farm; Aug. 12, featuring Cindy and Steve Shasky, of Shasky Family Farms; and Sept. 23, featuring Jon and Autumn Fogle, of Blackfork Farm. Each dinner costs $80.
“I think we just really wanted to show people that there’s all of these wonderful farms right around the corner from us,” Copley said.
There will also be a Harvest Celebration, a casual evening with appetizers and refreshments, on Oct. 21 from 5 to 8 p.m. The cost to attend is $30. Participants of a cooking class or local food dinner are admitted free of charge.
“This is just a start of something that’s going to be really, really awesome to be forefront pioneers of changing the food scene in Mansfield, Ohio,” Copley said. “I’m really excited to be a part of it.”
Tickets for the classes or dinner series may be purchased at www.mindbodyalign.com.
