<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of the Cannabist (Denver, Colorado) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/08/11/cooking-with-cannabis-chef-scott-durrah/60711/">http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/08/11/cooking-with-cannabis-chef-scott-durrah/60711/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Love cooking, eating and weed? You’re in luck, this chef’s cooking with cannabis classes are for you</h1><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.35em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 1.5em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Watch: Scott Durrah is a chef with his own restaurant, but he also owns a pot shop across the street. Now he's bringing those two passions together with his cooking with cannabis classes</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When chef Scott Durrah is teaching a weekend class on cooking with cannabis, he knows how to read his audience.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Do we all have our coffee and our sativa?” Durrah asked the students who assembled for his Simply Cooking class on Aug. 6. “Today we’re going to be using a little bit of Bruce Banner, so it’s a nice little sativa.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Durrah, who owns restaurant Jezebel’s and marijuana shop Simply Pure in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood, peppered his inaugural class with general tips as he taught those in attendance to make a couple THC-infused Jamaican dishes. His advice was thoughtful, and often backed up with concrete examples from his own experience in the kitchen.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The strain you use has a huge impact on the flavor of your oils,” Durrah said. “For instance, Sour Diesel’s a very tough strain to cook with, because it has a very heavy flavor that lingers … It’s a very hard flavor to mask.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Once you’re cooking with the right strain, you also want to make sure you’re able to taste the cannabis, Durrah said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You always want to try and taste a little bit of the cannabis in your food,” Durrah said. “Why? Because it tastes good. You don’t put garlic in a meal and then try and run away from the flavor. Enhance the flavor, enjoy the flavor. I look at herb, weed or cannabis as like another herb.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Treating marijuana as an herb seemed to make sense to Durrah’s students. And the chef-ganjapreneur also wasn’t afraid to drop some humor into the mix.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“My thing here’s not to teach you how to get high,” Durrah deadpanned. “That’s what we’ve always said. You wanna get high? Everybody here, raise your hand: They know how to get high, right? So that’s not the purpose of this class.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Durrah’s cannabis cooking classes are open to the public and will continue from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays through early September. Tickets are $60. More info here: <a href="http://simplypure.com/events">simplypure.com/events</a></em></p></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>"Don't Bogart That Joint"</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Dont_Bogart_That_Joint.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Dont_Bogart_That_Joint.mp3</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>