DATEBOOK

THURSDAY

Sake dinner: PCH Grill in Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel hosts a Pacific Rim dinner prepared by Chef Shosi Kaneyasu from Yamabuki Japanese Restaurant. The menu is matched with a selection of sakes. 5:30 p.m. Paradise Pier Hotel, 1717 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim. (714) 781-3463. $95.

Food and Wine Festival: The 10th Annual South Coast Plaza Summer Wine and Food Festival features culinary specialties from the shopping center’s restaurants along with wines and microbrews. Proceeds support the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County and Someone Cares Soup Kitchen. 6 to 9 p.m. South Coast Plaza, Crate & Barrel / Macy’s Home Store Wing, 3333 Bear St., Costa Mesa. (714) 435-2160. $40.

Ready, Set, Grill: Chef Linda Steidel teaches a grill menu for the Fourth of July that includes a summer tomato onion tart; grilled swordfish with capers, lemon and garlic; and a plum upside-down cake. 11 a.m. Culinary Lifestyle Center at Purcell Murray Co., 15400 Graham St., Suite 102, Huntington Beach. (800) 294-0644. $45.

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SATURDAY

Vegetarian Cooking Class: Learn to cook vegetarian entrees such as mushroom stew with creamy spinach sauce, Asian braised tofu with Chinese emerald brown rice and chickpea crepes with roasted cauliflower. 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Epicurean School of Culinary Arts, 8759 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. (310) 659-5990. $65.

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SUNDAY

Asian Tea and Book Signing: Getty Center chefs Terri Buzzard and Helene Kennan prepare a three-course afternoon tea featuring foods of Southeast Asia. Kristin Kelly of the Getty Conservation Institute and author of “The Extraordinary Museums of Southeast Asia” is the speaker at the tea at 4 p.m.; she will sign books at 3 p.m. Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles. (310) 440-7300. $25.

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Christy Hedges

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