Give a warm welcome back to chef Pete Fagan, who has shared his talents in our kitchen with classic fare for more than a decade. With flawless attention to detail, Pete prepares oven-steamed mussels with tomato and chorizo served with crispy crostini, Maryland corn crab cakes with rémoulade sauce, chicken piccata with garlicky skillet green beans, plus classic bananas Foster with banana ice cream.

The romance of Tuscany is the inspiration for a perfect date night in this hands-on class for couples. This class will prepare shrimp and scallop scampi, seared rib-eye steak with rosemary and roasted garlic, baked polenta with gorgonzola, mushrooms and spinach, roasted mixed vegetables, and blackberry gelato with pizzelle cookies.

A popular Kitchen Conservatory tradition! Celebrate Valentine's Day with your special Valentine at a delicious love-inspired hands-on cooking class. These Valentine classes are offered from February 1 through February 14 with a sumptuous variety of menus.

Spend an afternoon of cookie decorating fun with Courtney McKinney where everyone is an artist. The cookies are out of the oven with a variety of shapes perfect for Valentine's Day. This hands-on class will create beautiful cookies and learn outlining, flooding, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry techniques with a tipless pastry bag, plus learn to add accents and creating texture with sprinkles, with plenty of time for practice and creating your own designs. Everyone takes home their beautiful cookies. #weekday