In the run-up to Halloween, the Brooklyn Kitchen, which just started giving cooking classes in the Essex Market on the Lower East Side, has scheduled hands-on lessons for savories and sweets for the holiday. Halloween pasta — black squid ink with a lemon-herb sauce and pumpkin gnocchi with a brown butter and sage sauce — will be taught Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., $100 plus a $15 service fee. Halloween cookie decorating is the subject on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., $65 plus a $9.75 service fee.
The Brooklyn Kitchen, Essex Market (Demo Kitchen), 88 Essex Street (Broome Street), thebrooklynkitchen.com.
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