The best local, experience-driven presents for making delicious memories and culinary magic.
As much as I love giving (and receiving!) edible gifts like top-notch olive oils and spices or a box of specialty cookies or chocolates, lately I’ve been gravitating to presents that open up the possibility for memory making too. These locally sourced, experience-driven gifts offer the chance to break bread together, whether at a favorite restaurant or sourdough workshop, to broaden your culinary horizons at tastings and tours and to create your own kitchen magic, through a cooking demo or pottery workshop.
Make Handmade Pottery at Motel Studios
Celeste Hodges, co-founder of Motel Studios, firmly believes that homemade pottery makes food taste better. At Motel Studios, a creative hub offering pottery, sewing, tie-dye, crochet and painting workshops and classes, you can sit at a pottery wheel and make your own ceramic kitchen- or serve-ware. Pottery workshops are open to all skill levels and each class can be tailored to whatever you’d like to create, such as mugs, bowls, ramekins or even a four-piece dish set, which includes a dinner plate, salad plate, bowl and mug/tumbler. Keep an eye out for multi-part workshops to build, trim and glaze a custom dish set for two or four, including plates, bowls and mugs. Don’t miss their popular drag and pottery nights, where participants get to glaze a pre-made wine glass. Prefer to leave it to the pros? Reach out to the team for custom commissions. For more info, visit motelstudios.art…