Cooking Demonstrations

Chef Dustin Ronspies, owner of Wallingford's Art of the Table, cooking up a storm during the market's Eat Local for Thanksgiving campaign, November 2008. Photo copyright 2008 by Zachary D. Lyons.

Ballard Farmers Market occasionally presents cooking demonstrations featuring Seattle’s top chefs showing the public how to prepare extraordinary dishes simply, using fresh, delicious and nutritious local ingredients from the market. If these chefs can make such incredible dishes on a folding table using a butane burning on a cold, windy November day, you can certainly do it at home.

Chef Peter Birk from Ray's Boathouse, Ballard's venerable seafood restaurant, explains to market shoppers how to make winter squash gnocchi. Photo copyright 2008 by Zachary D. Lyons.

For upcoming scheduled cooking demonstrations, check back here. Please note, though, that do to the large crowds Ballard Farmers Market draws during the peak season, we tend only to schedule cooking demonstrations in November and December, for the holiday cooking season, but this is not set in stone. For recipes from past cooking demonstrations, click on the Recipes – Chefs category.