Karen

Meet Karen

You are coming to my home, not a cooking school. There is a garden, and if the season is right I will pick a grapefruit off the citrus tree for you before you leave.

I offer two different cooking classes at home: one focused on vegetarian Chengdu dishes, and the other on the Zigong cold noodle and wolf-tooth potato I grew up making with my mother.

I was born in Zigong. Both my parents worked at the salt factory there, the one that produces well salt, and my grandfather was a boiler man in it. My mother ran a food stall for years selling cold noodle and wolf-tooth potato, and when I was home from school I helped her cut and fry the potatoes and steam and cool the noodles. That is the cooking I know. It is the Zigong way, and you will not find it in any other kitchen in Chengdu.

We cook together. You will make each dish yourself with me guiding you, and you do not need any cooking experience at all. Then we eat what we made, and we talk.

I am not a chef. I learned everything from my mother.

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