Santa Fe School of Cooking

The Santa Fe School of Cooking has been around for 30 years, sharing cooking skills from top-notch chefs such as Noe Cano, who has been teaching there for 23 years, Allen Smith, Lois Ellen Frank, and Michelle Chavez. During the restrictions caused by COVID-19, they moved their popular classes online and now offer curbside pick-up of meals created by their talented chefs. Instead of attending a class in their state-of-the-art classroom, you’ll receive a video download that you can watch … Read More

Chef, cooking instructor, and cookbook author Deborah Madison recently turned to writing about her life and experiences with food in a memoir entitled An Onion in my Pocket. The title refers to having such a deep connection with food, it’s not unusual to show up at Spanish class with an onion in your pocket left over from making pizza with a friend, or to have your carry-on “luggage” be berries or rhubarb you’re taking home to enjoy. Deborah grew up … Read More

Karen Walker loves to bake and whip up desserts. Husband and retired oil executive Mike Walker always dreamed of owning a hardware store. Looking for a business to purchase when the pair decided to move to Santa Fe in the late 1990s, what could have been a finer match than a small kitchenware shop called Las Cosas? They immediately started putting their own stamp on it, relocating it from a sleepy end of DeVargas Center to the north side mall’s … Read More