Newport Cooks! welcomes special guest Chef Bill Reichman of the Cooking Skills Academy in Itasca, IL, located just outside of the culinary mecca of Chicago.
Bill the Baker will teach his hugely popular 2-hour class on making the perfect bagel as well as variations of cream cheeses to accompany them. In this class you will learn the secrets to making a New York style chewy bagel and the proper shaping techniques for bagels. We’ll cover the following bagel types: Cinnamon Raisin, Poppy Seed, Sesame Seed, Whole Wheat & Plain Bagels. We’ll also make Vegetable, Honey Almond and Berry-Berry Cream Cheese to accompany these tasty treats. Come to class with an apron, a notebook and an appetite for some of the best bagels you've ever tried! This is a BYOB class. Class fee: $60.
Bill has been baking break for over 30 years and, although most of his working career was spent in many different facets of the computer industry, his passion has always been baking bread. Along the way he has tried baking other products but always kept coming back to breads. He enjoys that the same four simple ingredients of flour, salt, yeast and water can produce an endless variety of bread products. Not only does each variation of bread look different, but each truly has a different taste as well. Bill loves the smell of his fresh bread baking in the oven and the look on people’s faces when they taste what he has created. He is currently an active member of the Bread Bakers Guild of America.
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