VENEZUELAN AREPAS

You’re invited to an in person, hands on culinary experience! Learn the secrets on how to make Arepas from scratch, with Mercedes Rojas. This is a public class. If you are looking to book a private class for your group or team, please visit our Private Classes page.

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About your host, Mercedes Rojas 👩‍🍳

Mercedes Rojas is the founder of The Arepa Stand, a pop-up food stall that sells traditional Venezuelan cuisine with a Los Angeles twist, at farmer's markets around the city.

"She moved to Los Angeles in 2015 to learn under chef Suzanne Goin. Then Rojas opened The Arepa Stand in 2019 when she was out of work after frequently making arepas as a staff meal. She knew this would be her path. 'It’s very close to my heart, so it was a no-brainer for me to start something like this,' said Rojas".

From: Spectrum News 1

What are Arepas? 🫓

Arepas are cornmeal cakes that originated hundreds of years ago in a region that now makes up Colombia, Venezuela, and Panama. Traditionally, they were cooked on a pan called a budare. But they can also be grilled, baked, or fried. Arepas can be stuffed with various ingredients, some traditional options are: brisket, cheese, and chicken salad.

What to bring

• comfortable outfit
• comfortable shoes

About IMPASTIAMO

Founded in the spring of 2020 by Silvia Carluccio, formerly at Live Nation Entertainment, we set out to pair our love of food with our love of music–a consistent theme in all of our cooking class experiences. 

 Since then, we've hosted over 300 online cooking classes with chefs from Milan, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Costa Rica, Sicily, Toscany, Spain, and India. We've proudly supported over thirty small businesses including restaurants, private chefs and nonprofits in this time, and that number continues to grow.