Tuesday, June 29, 6:30-9PM CENTRAL MARKET COOKING SCHOOL IN SAN ANTONIO PRESENTS

Monica Pope
Named 2009's Best Chef at the Houston Culinary Awards, Monica Pope is a 2007 James Beard Award Nominee for Best Chef: Southwest and the owner of t'afia and Beaver's in Houston. The only Texas woman to ever be named a Top 10 Best New Chef by Food & Wine magazine, Pope first learned to cook from her Czech grandmother and went on to earn her Chef's title from Prue Leith's School of Food and Wine in London. After working in Europe and San Francisco, Pope returned home to Houston to oopen her first restaurant, the critically acclaimed The Quiled Toque. Soon after opening her second Houston restaurant, Boulevard Bistro, she garnered national praise from top critical publications including Travel & Leisure, which hailed her "one of the most ingenious restauranteurs around." Her latest venture, t'afia, has been featured in Gourmet, O: The Oprah Magazine, Bon Appitit, and Fortune. She recently published a digital cookbook, Eat Where Your Food Lives and is currently working on a cooking memoir entitled Eating Hope (and Other Things I've Had to Stomach).

Tuesday, June 29, 6:30-9PM

Menu includes:
Endive & Cremini Mushroom, Bleu Cheese & Spicy Pecans with White Balsamic-White Truffle Vinaigrette
Three-Cheese Ravioli with Blossom Butter & Pine Nuts
Balsamic Caramel Beef Cubes, Peppers & Onions with Sticky Rice & Shaved Coconut
Warm Date Butter Tart
$65.00