Noncredit Cooking and Wine-tasting Classes Return to HCC This Spring 

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Community College is running a series of noncredit cooking and wine-tasting classes this spring at the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute. 

Monthly sessions of both the cooking and wine-tasting classes run from 6-8 p.m. starting Jan. 29, and will continue on Feb. 26, March 26, April 23, and May 14, at the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute, 164 Race St., Holyoke. 

Valley wine writer Ken Ross returns to lead the wine-tasting classes. The five stand-alone sessions each focus on a different theme: winter red wines (Jan. 29), Tuscany wines (Feb. 26), New Zealand wines (March 26), rosé wines (April 23), and summer white wines (May 14). 

Wine-tasting classes are $79 per session, which includes wine and light snacks. 

The cooking classes are led by HCC culinary arts alumni and local chefs Diana Swanigan and Marangelly Vargas-Gonzalez: Jan. 29: Caribbean (Swanigan); Feb. 26: charcuterie  (Vargas-Gonzalez); March 26: Puerto Rican (Swanigan); April 23: Southern cuisine (Swanigan); May 14: charcuterie (Vargas-Gonzalez).

Each cooking session costs $99, including food and drinks.

To register or read a more detailed description of each class, please go to: hcc.edu/food