Here’s your chance to combine three of the best things – time with friends, fabulous food and an exquisite setting.  Up to ten (10) people will gather in the beautiful Lake of the Isles home of Wendy Lovell-Smith and Colin Smith to cook with Zehorit Heilicher.  Learn about and help prepare delicacies with a Mediterranean flavor.  Menu will be customized to your group to make it a perfect fit.  Sit in the elegant dining room to enjoy the fruits of your labor, as you sip wine during the course of this memorable evening.

Zehorit was born in Israel to a Yemenite immigrant family. Growing up in multi-cultural Givat Olga, she experienced Israel’s rich ethnic diversity through food and celebration. Following high school, Zehorit served in the Israeli army, and then majored in English Literature and Political Science at Tel Aviv University.  After meeting her husband Matt, she relocated to Minneapolis.  Zehorit brings to the kitchen her Mediterranean roots, her passion for healthy and flavorful dishes and her love of people and storytelling. Teaching in the Twin cities for the past 10 years, she shares her appreciation for the way in which culture, geography and history shape our food and the way we gather to eat it. 

Zehorit is known to say:  “Food is a vehicle to creating community, to shaping memory and to sharing cultural richness.”