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Napa Valley Pizza Chef’s Online Cooking Demos Draw Worldwide Audience
A Napa Valley chef's weekly Italian food cooking sessions have drawn thousands of viewers stuck inside during worldwide stay-home orders.
ST HELENA (KPIX) — A celebrated Napa Valley chef offered a simple online cooking class to draw business to his pizza restaurant and it has become so popular that people now tune in from around the world. Tra Vigne Pizzeria in St. Helena is hurting just like all restaurants in this era of the coronavirus. So, owner Nash Cognetti began offering take-out kits to help customers recreate his authentic Italian pizza.
“We thought this would be something people could do at their home,” Cognetti explained. “They could cook and still have restaurant-quality food but they could have a little fun doing it.”
To help his customers, Cognetti hosted a live, online cooking lesson on his Facebook page. The lesson, pardon the expression, went viral. So, chef Cognetti now presents a live cooking lesson every Friday at 6 p.m. showing how to prepare various mainstay Italian dishes, from lasagna to gnocchi to tiramisu. Cognetti welcomes guest chefs and an occasional wine expert to join him.
