More About Chef Julie: A Certified Culinary Professional, Julie Logue-Riordan has been teaching for more than 20 years. Starting to cook at the age of six, she has never tired of her love of teaching and cooking. She is a graduate of L'Academie de Cuisine in Maryland, has studied around the world and at the CIA-Greystone. She apprenticed with the former pastry chef of the White House, Roland Mesnier, worked and studied in France and was director and teacher at L'Academie de Cuisine with Francois Dionot for five years. After living and working many years abroad, in Asia and Africa, she now makes her home in Napa and started the cooking school Cooking with Julie.

Sample Menu: Thanksgiving

Petite potato and sunchoke galette with lemon herb cr?me fraiche
Microgreens with aged goat gouda, lacquered pecans, & blackberry vinaigrette
Veal Cutlet with tomato blood-orange gastrique, gruyere gnocchi and haricots verts
Earl Grey ice cream with bittersweet truffle bites