L'Apéro with Tess Kelly | Saturday 02.08.25 @ 3pm

In France, apéro, short for apéritif, is that sacred hour or so before dinner where you can relax with a drink and a few tasty snacks to best prepare the palate for what's to come. 

We will spend our afternoon "très sophistiquée" preparing and enjoying three scrumptious hors d'oeuvres that will forever elevate your hosting game along with the premier 1:1:1 apéritif--the Negroni.

On the menu:

Cheese Fricos with apples + sage

Stuffed Mushrooms with sausage + herbs

Smoked Trout Canapés on pumpernickel with pickled onions + crème fraîche

À votre santé!

Tess Kelly is a chef and founder of Séraphine Workshops. She moved to France in 1986 where she developed her love of French cuisine. She apprenticed under the chef of the pâtisserie she lived above in Paris. Madame Bernard took her under her wing and generously shared the art and love of baking French pastries and French cuisine. 

After working for many years in the restaurant business in New York City, she opened Séraphine Bakery in 2014.  Since then Tess has developed fun, hands-on workshops for children and adults. Her desire to feed people and share the art of preparing food is the basis of all of her cooking and baking classes. She teaches a balanced, seasonal approach to eating. Her love of France and French cuisine runs deep, ever since her teenage years in Paris where it all began.

She currently teaches both private and public workshops in New York, and in France.

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