Minnesota cooks and books featured by the Star Tribune Taste team will take over the Cambria Kitchen in the Creative Activities Building on Aug. 28 for a day of cooking demonstrations. Here’s the all-star lineup:
10 a.m., Nadya Goncharova: Featured in the book “Kitchen of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home,” Goncharova, from Latvia, currently is the food and beverage director at the American Swedish Institute.
11 a.m., Amalia Moreno-Damgaard: A champion of Latin culture and cuisine, Moreno balances traditional dishes with modern concepts in her two award-winning cookbooks, “Amalia’s Guatemalan Kitchen” and “Amalia’s Mesoamerican Table.”
Noon, Nicole Aufderhar: Those who don’t know the Walker, Minn., baker for her blue-ribbon efforts at the fair might know her from her turn on “The Great American Baking Show” last summer. She wowed judges with her State Fair-inspired cake.
1 p.m., Thekla Rura-Polley: Another cook featured in the book “Kitchen of Hope" by Linda S. Svitak and Christin Jaye Eaton with Lee Svitak Dean. Rura-Polley, from Germany, works in development for community and human rights organizations.
2 p.m., Meredith Deeds: Avid Taste readers will recognize this name. In addition to writing and developing recipes for the Star Tribune, Deeds has taught classes and written several cookbooks, including the James Beard-nominated “The Big Book of Appetizers.”
3 p.m., Stephanie Hansen: Hansen is the host of the Emmy award-winning show “Taste Buds with Stephanie,” host of “The Weekly Dish” radio show, contributor to Fox 9’s “The Jason Show” and author of “True North Cabin Cookbook” and its just-released sequel.
4 p.m., Beth Dooley: The Taste recipe developer and columnist has made a career of putting Minnesota and Northern cooking in the spotlight. She has authored more than a dozen cookbooks, including ones written with local culinary luminaries Lucia Watson and Sean Sherman.
