Culinary Open House draws crowd at MCCC

Nearly 100 people attended a free Culinary Open House Monday evening at Monroe County Community College.

The event was an introduction to the college’s expanded slate of noncredit, food-related Lifelong Learning classes. Most of the classes run just one night. Several topics are new this winter/spring term.

“It was a fairly steady flow of people for the first hour. We are estimating around 80 to 90 people attended,” Tina Pillarelli, director of Lifelong Learning, said.

At the hour-and-a-half open house, three chef instructors, Michael Lyons, Linda Paetz and Kay Williams, served samples of foods that will be part of their upcoming classes. They also were available to answer questions from the attendees, who waited in lines to sample the fare.