{"id":2948,"date":"2013-03-16T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2013-06-18T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:56:37","slug":"cooking-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2013\/03\/16\/cooking-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Cooking Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2949\" alt=\"thaicookingclass\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thaicookingclass-262x300.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thaicookingclass-262x300.jpg 262w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thaicookingclass-894x1024.jpg 894w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/thaicookingclass.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wife and I continued our Groupon and LivingSocial addiction. We decided to take a Thai\u00a0cooking course\u00a0at <a title=\"ICE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.edu\/\">The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE)<\/a>\u00a0instead of doing another <a title=\"Archery Night: Zombie Apocalypse training\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/12\/16\/archery-night-zombie-apocalypse-training\/\">archery<\/a>, <a title=\"Rollin\u2019 with Wifey\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/09\/16\/rollin-with-wifey\/\">motorcycle riding<\/a>, or <a title=\"Throw \u2018ya guns in \u2018da air!\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/09\/30\/throw-ya-guns-in-da-air\/\">NRA pistol certification<\/a> class. In truth, I have recently become totally fixated on cooking related shows. Anything with Gordon Ramsey is an immediate season pass selection on the TiVos. So when I saw the Groupon offer a couples thai cooking class I thought that it would be another great opportunity to get out for the night with my girl.<\/p>\n<p>Chef <a title=\"Chef Vicki Caparulo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/18\/arts\/couples-cooking-classes-with-vicki-j-caparulo.html?_r=1&amp;\">Vicki Caparulo<\/a> was our instructor for the evening. She was absolutely amazing! She seemed to have that <!--more-->stern and scary &#8220;Gordon Ramsey&#8221; demeanor at first but turned out to be a total sweetheart. Chef Vicki started teaching this couples class many years ago with her husband Steve. Ski and I learned so much from just this one class. I am seriously thinking about taking a more in depth class over the summer so that I learn to cook a few more healthy meals for the family. And just in case the whole college professor thing doesn&#8217;t work out, I hear that there are always lots of job openings for trained speciality chefs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/881931_10200879524009052_1061791589_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2952\" alt=\"881931_10200879524009052_1061791589_o\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/881931_10200879524009052_1061791589_o-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/881931_10200879524009052_1061791589_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/881931_10200879524009052_1061791589_o-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/881931_10200879524009052_1061791589_o.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chefvickiandme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2955\" alt=\"chefvickiandme\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chefvickiandme.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chefvickiandme.jpg 430w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/chefvickiandme-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife and I continued our Groupon and LivingSocial addiction. We decided to take a Thai cooking course at The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) with Chef Vicki Caparulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[364],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-sports-and-fitness","tag-cooking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}