Learn to cook at Builders Source Appliance Gallery with celebrated TV cooking show host and best-selling cookbook author Jane Butel. Credited with starting our nation’s love affair with Southwest cuisine, Jane will guide you through ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques unique to the Southwest.
The gourmet kitchens at the Builders Source showroom are the perfect setting for Jane’s cooking classes, with state-of-the-art appliances and plenty of counter space. The spacious and well-appointed kitchens also make it possible for class participants to easily see and hear Jane as she shares her culinary expertise, guidance and tips.
Cooking enthusiasts of all ages find these classes to be informative, motivational and educational. Classes are limited to 35. Reservations can be made via email at www.janebutelcooking.com and click on Cooking Classes / Group Demonstration. To learn more about Jane, read on!
Jane has written 20 cookbooks over the past several decades, starting with Cocinas de New Mexico (1961) and Favorite Mexican Foods (1965) to recent books that include Jane Butel’s Real Women Eat Chiles (2006). She has also been a guest on and host of several television shows, the most recent of which is “Jane Butel’s Southwestern Kitchen”.
Although Jane has held enviable positions at American Express, General Electric, Con Edison and Public Service Company of New Mexico, she wanted both more control over her efforts and more satisfaction from them. So, in 1983, she founded the Jane Butel School of Cooking in Santa Fe (relocating the school to Albuquerque in 1993), which was recognized by Bon Appétit magazine as one of the best vacation cooking schools in the world. She also created Jane Butel’s Pecos Valley Spice Company, a trusted source of the pure, fresh ingredients critical for authentic Southwestern fare.
Listed in Who’s Who in American Women, Outstanding Young Women, Platinum Who’s Who and the World Who’s Who, Jane is a member of the New York City chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier and the International Association of Culinary Professionals among others. She currently is on the Board of Goodwill Industries of New Mexico and the Guild of the Santa Fe Opera. |
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