21.   Cooking classes predominate, but the curriculum also comprises workshops on food styling, food writing and starting a kitchen garden.

22.   Cooking classes will be held on four Saturdays on topics such as vegetarian cooking and table presentation.

23.   Cooking classes with hands-on participation by guests will be one program.

24.   Cookbook author Paulette Mitchell, who taught two cooking classes at Rancho La Puerta the week I was there, offers this alternative to fried chips.

25.   Cooking classes will be offered periodically.

26.   Cooking classes, held in the spring, are open to the public with reservations, as are afternoon lectures.

27.   Companies also use cooking classes to serve other purposes, such as rewarding the efforts of a department or getting employees and their clients together.

28.   Cooking classes offered by local and visiting experts are readily available and increasingly popular.

29.   Davidson, like many sons and daughters of the region, loved the family farm but itched to leave it for the globe used in those early cooking classes.

30.   Cunningham knows firsthand that a mere cooking class can have a profound impact.