Cooking Locally - Unless You Visit a London Bookstore!

A bookstore in London allows you to utilize the vast selection of cookbooks for a recipe which you can then try in their kitchen!! Books for Cooks - the cookbook shop  "In this shop we really do cook the books – cookbooks are put to the test in our café at the back of the shop, while cookery classes take place in the demonstration kitchen upstairs."

While we have not heard of a similar option at any bookstore in Southern California there are numerous resources to attend and participate in a cooking class:

Gio Cucina Napoletana Cooking Classes | 15826 Ventura Blvd. Encino

Gio Cucina Napoletana Last 2025 Cooking Class October 27th 5:30pm last class for 2025

Sur La Table - Woodland Hills In-Store Cooking Classes  

Rustic French Comforts Cooking Class -  10-28 4pm
Fall Flavors of Italy Cooking Class 10-28 7pm
Chocolate Desserts from Scratch Cooking Class 10-29 10am
French Bistro Fare Cooking Class  10-29 4pm
Homemade Pasta Workshop Cooking Class  10-29 7pm
All Things Pumpkin Cooking Class - 10-30 10am
Family-Style Mexican Cooking Class - 10-30 1pm
Cut Like a Pro Cooking Class - 10-30 2pm
Exploring Spain Cooking Class -10-30 4pm
Date Night: Autumnal Steak Dinner Cooking Class 10-30 7pm
Classic French Croissants Cooking Class - 10-31 9am
Rustic French Comforts Cooking Class - 10-31 1pm
Date Night: Taste of France Cooking Class 10-31 4pm
Date Night: Taste of France Cooking Class - 10-31 7pm

"How Vienna Changed Global Baking" by Rick Rodgers

• Saturday, November 8, 2025 Culinary Historians of Southern California  L.A. Public Library Downtown
•  Join Rick Rodgers, author of Kaffeehaus, on a journey to the cafés of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as told through their iconic desserts. In his presentation, Rick discusses how a Viennese (and it was not Marie Antoinette) brought the crescent roll (kipferl) to Paris, its transformation into the croissant, and how laminated desserts subsequently conquered the pastry world. In Europe, what we Americans call Danish are Viennoiserie, but what is the story behind the discrepancy? What famous dessert was the basis of a long and expensive lawsuit to determine the legal owner of the recipe? Who were the Hungarians whose commercial leavening transformed home baking? What is the difference between “masculine/feminine” and “sugar/flour” desserts on Viennese menus? Learn the many distinctions between Austro-Hungarian and Franco-Italian desserts.

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