The Food Studio offers free virtual classes

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A Charleswood-based cooking studio is offering a taste of its offerings through a series of free virtual culinary classes.

The Food Studio, located at 3200 Roblin Blvd., recently received provincial support through the Safe at Home Manitoba program to offer hour-long free classes that focus on cooking, baking and healthy living.  

“I’m trying to choose recipes where people will probably have most of the ingredients at home or they’re fairly inexpensive so it’s not a huge burden,” said owner Maria Abiusi. “It’s been really good so far.”

Health coach Ashley Pharazyn is offering a series of healthy living classes through The Food Studio. She has already taught sessions focused on bone broth, fermented foods, healthy soups, and veggie pasta. Coming up, she will teach participants on topics that include glowing skin and hormone health.

“We’re also doing a series on how to cook different proteins, such as fish and chicken in parchment paper,” Abiusi said.

“Participants will also learn how to break down a whole tenderloin and save money that way. As well, we have a session on quiche coming up.”

For youngsters, The Food Studio is offering free virtual Kids in the Kitchen classes throughout spring break.

“We’re trying to do two per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. We’re still adding more sessions as we go during spring break for the kids,” Abiusi said.

“These classes are geared for older kids who are independent in the kitchen but also younger kids whose parents can participate and help them out.”

The kid-friendly cooking classes will teach young cooks how to make homemade chicken fingers and dip, spaghetti and meatballs, cinnamon buns, artisan quick bread, energy balls and more.

So far, the virtual classes have proven to be even more popular then Abiusi anticipated.

“It’s been unbelievable. I set a maximum of 100 per session, and I’ve had 100 on half of the sessions that we’ve done already. They’re filling up days in advance. The cool thing about doing these online events is that people can participate from wherever they have an internet connection,” Abiusi said.

“I’m running everything through Eventbrite, which gives me the analytics. The majority of people signing up are from Winnipeg and Manitoba, but I’ve had people from the southern States, from New York, from Singapore, from all over the place. It’s amazing.”

For more information about the free cooking sessions, visit The Food Studio website at www.foodstudio.net and click on the Virtual Classes tab. Information is also posted on Facebook and Instagram.

Advance registration is required through Eventbrite. A class link and any other details will be shared before each class.