Today

Puff Pastry Workshop: Learn to make appetizers and desserts like boreks (filo dough pastries filled with farmer’s cheese, golden raisins and walnuts); puff pastries filled with spicy ground lamb, caramelized onions and pistachios; and puff pastry tomato tarts with English Gloucester cheese and chopped kalamata olive spread. 6:30 p.m. Let’s Get Cookin’, 4643 Lakeview Canyon Road, Westlake Village. (818) 991-3940. Reservations required. $60.

Ming Tsai Book Signing: The host of the Food Network’s “East Meets West” will sign copies of his new cookbook, “Blue Ginger” (Clarkson Potter, $32.50). 7 p.m. Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. (626) 449-5320.

Cooking With California Cheese: Chef and author John Ash will introduce dishes featuring cheese, including fresh ricotta and spinach gnocchi with basil tomato sauce, fried panela cheese salad with watercress and a hot lemon vinaigrette and souffles of carmody cheese with onions, crimini mushrooms and sweet corn. He will also match each dish with wines from Fetzer and Bonterra Vineyards. Sur La Table, 301 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, (310) 395-0390; also Thursday at 6:30 p.m., 832 Avocado Ave., Newport Beach, (949) 640-0200. Reservations required. $50.

Bread Book Signing: Suzanne Dunaway, master baker and owner of Buona Forchetta in West Los Angeles, will sign copies of her new book, “No Need to Knead” (Hyperion, $29.95). 5 p.m. The Cook’s Library, 8373 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles. (323) 655-3141.

Thursday

Healthy Pasta and Wine: Learn to prepare a master tomato sauce and five low-fat variations (tequila shrimp, wilted arugula, Cajun chicken, red clam, puttanesca and snapper Veracruz), each paired with a different wine. 6:30 p.m. Global Gourmet, 8506 E. Chapman Ave., Orange. (714) 289-9100. Reservations required. $60.

Friday

Candlelight Barrel Tasting: Stroll through the Mount Palomar Winery by candlelight while tasting wines served from the barrel. Wines will be accompanied by dishes such as Southwestern roasted pork, ahi tuna over spinach greens tossed with feta and a cucumber shrimp salsa, and chocolate creme bru^lee. 6:30 p.m. Mount Palomar Winery, 33820 Rancho California Road, Temecula. (800) 854-5177, Ext. 21. Reservations required. $75.

Saturday

Gingerbread House Workshop: Pastry chef William O’Neill will guide participants through baking and decorating a classic gingerbread Swiss lodge house. 2:30 p.m. Epicurean School of Culinary Arts, 8759 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. (310) 659-5990.Reservations required. $75.

Christmas Brunch: Learn to prepare a festive holiday brunch menu that includes gingerbread waffles with orange-walnut butter, scrambled eggs with mascarpone and truffles, red flannel hash and warm winter compote. 3 p.m. HomeChef, 538 S. Lake Ave., Pasadena (626) 744-3399; 401 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, (949) 718-0114. Reservations required. $45.

Border Grill Chefs: Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger will present a cooking demonstration and sign copies of their new book, “Mexican Cooking for Dummies” (IDG Books, $19.99). 1 p.m. Bloomingdale’s, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Century City. (310) 772-7142. Free.

David Lebovitz Book Signing: Former Chez Panisse pastry chef will sign copies of his new book, “Room for Dessert” (HarperCollins, $30). 2 p.m. The Cook’s Library, 8373 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles. (323) 655-3141.

Sunday

Hanukkah Festival: Sample latkes with applesauce and sour cream, latkes with salsa and cilantro, wild mushroom latkes, jelly doughnuts and Hanukkah chocolates and cookies. Live music and children’s theater also are scheduled. 11 a.m. Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. (310) 440-4500 for information; (323) 655-8587 for advance tickets. Adults, $8; senior citizens and students, $6; free for Skirball members and children under 12.