Kochkurs Primo: Italiens erster Gang

In the organizer's words:

Cooking course in German
Primo: Italy's first course
with Lisa Shoemaker

One tactic to reduce your meat consumption is to dine the Italian way, i.e. to start with the filling side dishes, i.e. to prepare a primo.

You will cook all 3 primi (minestrone, polenta, risotto) in pairs. Anyone who thinks that minestrone and polenta are not for me is mistaken. Here's your chance to change your mind:

Minestrone: Completely undervalued, minestrone is a great vegetable soup. We make a tasty broth from the vegetable scraps as a base for the fresh vegetables.

Polenta: I readily admit that polenta often doesn't taste good. This is usually because butter and cheese are used too sparingly.

Risotto: we will have different ingredients on hand so that you can adapt the risotto to your taste

Lisa Shoemaker

Born a German-American in upstate New York, Lisa grew up between bread dumplings and hamburgers and now lives in Berlin, where she cooks and bakes with children, teenagers and adults. She also writes and translates cookbooks. Her own works: Let's Cook (for young people) and Cooking English and Cooking American from the series Dishes and their History. She has translated Cynthia Barcomi's books, among others.

Lisa Shoemaker won 2nd place in the ideas competition organized by the state of Berlin as part of its Zero Waste Strategy 2021. The sustainable use of food and energy is very important to Lisa and she enthusiastically passes on her experimentally acquired knowledge in all her cooking courses. And, of course, she cooks with organic food, using seasonal and regional produce wherever possible.