COURTESY OF NAUSET REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL’S CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM.
Students making pasta from scratch.
EASTHAM – A fundraising event will be held this weekend for the Culinary Arts Program at Nauset Regional High School.
The Farm & Sea-to-Table Dinner & Silent Auction will feature food from the school’s culinary arts students and local eateries.
Nauset Regional High School Culinary Arts Instructor Norma Jean Anderson said the funds raised will benefit several parts to the program.
“We really need to renovate and get this kitchen up to shape,” she said. “It needs a lot of work and a lot of appliances.”
The money will also be used toward the programs Eat Local/Eat Clean food initiative along with restoring the garden.
“I spend a lot of time telling my students to eat healthy, organic local foods but that’s a little tough on the budget we have,” Anderson said. “I’m hoping to increase the amount of those kinds of foods in the program so they can work with them.”
The Cape Cod Fisherman’s Alliance is donating some dogfish, also known as “Cape shark,” and the students will be using it to make fish cakes.
The students will also be making a cranberry chutney with cranberries and peaches from local farms and bogs and pulled pork with a slaw made from local ingredients.
“We’ve got a lot of local farms contributing which is really exciting,” Anderson said. “We are trying to make that connection with the farms and the foods that we are eating.”
Restaurants that are contributing to the event including Karoo Restaurant, The Flying Fish Café, Mac’s Seafood, Sunbird, Guapos Shore Shack, Ben & Jerry’s, Local Scoop, Kung Fu Dumplings and Ames Pizza.
The event will also include a silent auction with items that follow the culinary and garden theme and include restaurant gift certificates, cookbooks, clothing from local student artists and designers, cooking classes, culinary weekend trips in Cambridge, catered dinners, gardening supplies and more.
The Culinary Arts program offers students the opportunity to learn cooking skills and techniques from around the world, work in a professional-style environment and experience simple, healthy foods with local, organic ingredients.
The event will be Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Nauset Regional High School.
Tickets for the dinner and auction are still available and can be purchased here.
By BRIAN MERCHANT, CapeCod.com NewsCenter
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