Joey Ward has been a Gunshow kitchen dude ever since chef Kevin Gillespie opened the Glenwood Park restaurant in 2013. While Ward is now Gunshow’s executive chef, he’s still a kitchen dude at heart, and he loves to share his creative culinary passions with restaurant guests, other restaurant chefs and farmers market-to-home-table shoppers and chefs. Ward leads the 9 a.m. chef demo on Saturday, August 20 at Morningside Farmers Market. Want more? Make reservations to sup on Ward’s innovative cuisine at Gunshow that evening.
Atlanta, NYC, Philadelphia, Paris, Morningside Farmers Market. Matthew Ridgway has cheffed in all these places. The verdict for the executive chef of Southern Proper Hospitality’s Gypsy Kitchen and The Southern Gentleman? “I love the people and the ingredients in the South, as well as the longer growing season,” confides Ridgway. Agree! His enthusiasm, along with loads of farm-fresh produce, is ripe for the picking at Saturday’s Morningside Farmers Market. Stop by and gather ideas at his chef demo, 9 a.m.-ish on July 2.
Kickstart Saturday morning, May 28, with a bit of Revival. Executive chef Andreas Müller is stopping by Morningside Farmers Market to lead this Saturday’s chef demo before hunkering down in his kitchen at the Decatur restaurant. The homegrown fruits, vegetables and fresh foods of Müller’s boyhood in Sweden stuck, igniting a passion for seeking farm-fresh ingredients throughout his chef-hood. Bingo. Hits the asparagus on the head for a farmers market cooking class. Shop the year-round market for locally grown organic from 8-11:30 a.m. but peel yourself away around 9-ish for this demo on the patio of market-adjacent Morningside Kitchen. Another reason to praise the morning, Morningside Farmers Market requires all produce to be certified organic.
Shaun Doty is prince of poultry in
his own roosts -- Bantam + Biddy in Ansley Mall and
on Crescent Avenue and Chick-a-Biddy in Atlantic Station.
His persona changes to strawberry king as he brandishes strawberries during the
“Shop with a Chef” demo at Morningside Farmers
Market
on Saturday, April 19. Strawberries rightly claim fame
as a nutritional powerhouse armed with antioxidants and phytonutrients. Market
opens at 7:30 a.m., demo begins at 9 a.m. Get there early and shop first, watch
and learn after.
You don't have to wait long to start the weekend off right at the Morningside Farmers Market. Booths open shortly after sunrise (7:30 a.m. to be exact) on Saturday mornings, so you can jump in as soon as the sun starts shining. By 9 a.m., shopping bags are bulging with locally grown organic produce, herbs and craft food items. Chef demo time! Gerry Klaskala of Aria leads a lesson in working with Riverview Farm andouille sausage on May 25, and Tyler Williams of Woodfire Grill takes on the fresh taste of Woodland Gardens fennel on June 1. Be sure to stock up on these items before the demos because after these chefs share their ideas there's sure to be a run on the market.
Nutritional powerhouse broccoli boasts more vitamin C than an orange, phytochemicals, fiber, a skinny portion of calories -- and it's in season locally at Woodland Gardens in Winterville near Athens, Ga. This Saturday, October 27, No. 246 Chef Drew Belline will show Morningside Farmers' Market shoppers some sweet ways to prepare this emerald gem (and keep it that color). Shop 7:30-11:30 a.m. Saturdays at 1393 N. Highland. Super Broccoli for Halloween, anyone?
