Thomas Crane Public Library to host virtual vegan cooking classes
QUINCY — The Thomas Crane Community Library will host a digital vegan cooking sequence called “Cooking with Colin” starting up at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8.
The vegan cook, Colin McCullough, will instruct “Whole Meals Soups” on Oct. 8, “Healthy for the Vacations” on Nov. 12, and “Do it yourself Healthful Gifts Anyone Will Love to Consume” on Dec. 10. All lessons in the sequence will be are living-streamed on Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook, and recorded for these who cannot look at the reside hour-prolonged courses dwell.
“That’s form of been a benefit of COVID and teaching on-line,” McCullough, who life in Maine, claimed. “I am teaching at classes in Connecticut, sites that I really would not be able to drive to virtually and still perform total time. But undertaking it on the net I can broadcast everywhere to the globe.”
McCullough, who has been vegan for 25 yrs, stated that the cooking lessons he teaches at libraries are not typically attended by vegans or even vegetarians, they are just men and women who want to study how to make some healthier recipes for their people. McCullough does not advertise the lessons as vegan, and suggests he sees them as cooking lessons that just occur to be vegan.
The Nov. 12 class will train folks how to make typical holidays meals this sort of as pie crusts, gravy, and casseroles with vegan, unprocessed foods.
“So it is really not just the recipes,” McCullough stated, “it is really also form of an solution, I suppose.”
McCullough is also the author of a vegan prepare dinner e-book, The Healthful Vegan Cookbook, which was published very last year. He will launch a further cook guide, Smoothies That Style Like Female Scout Cookies, in November.
All the courses McCullough teaches can be observed on his web page, colincooksvegan.com.