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South Restaurant b Coffeehouse

South Restaurant & Coffeehouse is located at 11124 Old Seward Highway in Anchorage and offers a variety of opportunities to learn from local experts, such as the restaurants popular Gin + Tonic Class, where South's bartenders "share their secrets to crafting the perfect Barcelona Style Gin + Tonic," Class participants sample small batches of gins and tonic waters complemented with fresh and dry botanicals, all while enjoying appetizers. South also offers classes for cooking beginners ages twelve through sixteen, pasta making classes, and other opportunities to learn from South's professional staff, southak.com

Marx Brother's Cafe

Marx Brother's Cafe officially opened their doors In 1979 in a small house, 627 West Third Street In Downtown Anchorage. One of the restaurant's original founders. Van Hale, offers classes and shares his decades of culinary experience. Private classes are available for groups of fifteen or more to learn how to make Caesar Salad once a month January through May. In addition Marx Brother's Cafe offers a Food and Wine class, where participants learn to pair food with wines, sampling eighteen foods and nine wines, also once a month January through May. Once a month from February through May, the restaurant provides a class titled Wine and Cheeses of the World. marxcafe.com

Sons of Norway Bernt Balchen Lodge

Sons of Norway is the largest Norwegian-American organization In the world; its goal is to preserve and promote Norwegian heritage and culture. The organization's Anchorage branch offers cooking classes In Norwegian cuisine at Viking Hall, located at 8141 Briarwood Street in Anchorage. Classes are held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and cover a variety of foods, Including vaffler (waffles), pannekaker (a think pancake), and ertesuppe (pea soup) in March and syttende mal kaker (cake) and polser and potetstappe (mashed potatoes) in April. Sons of Norway, christieak@DmaH.com, 907-602-0673

Allen & Peterson

Allen & Peterson offers a variety of scheduled classes and opportunities for private classes for the Anchorage community to Improve their cooking skills. Located at 3002 Seward Highway In Anchorage, March scheduled classes include Essential Knife Skills, Soupy Tuesdays, Street Foods from Around the World, International Cuisine-Turkish Delights, Girls Night-Moroccan Delights, La French Cafe Goodies, Bring on the Brisket-Advanced Slow 24 Hour Cook, as well as kid and teen classes for making...