The Durham Spirits Co. has some interesting upcoming classes:

• 6-8 p.m. Sept. 14, Seoul Food, a Korean cooking class where you will learn to make bulgogi, bibimbap, kimchi, whole fried fish with glass noodles and sweet rice with jujubes.
• 1-3 p.m. Sept. 16, Beer Garden Grilling featuring beer-battered pickles, stout-marinated ribs, grilled onions and potato salad and Belgian ale and chocolate-covered pretzel ice cream.
• 6-8 p.m. Sept. 21, a Mediterranean class that will explore the cuisines of Greece, Turkey, Spain and Morocco. The menu includes patatas bravas, tomato and zucchini fritters, fattoush, clams in a garlic broth and honey-infused goat cheese with poached apricots.

Each class costs $59. To register, go to durhamspiritscompany.com.
 

If you are looking for things to do on St. Patrick's Day, here are two suggestions:

• The Cookery in Durham is offering a "Brew like the Irish" class from noon-4 p.m. March 17 by Brew Durham's Keil Jansen. He will show you how to make the historic Guinness recipe. The class costs $40. To book the class, go to http://durhamcookery.com/culinary-workshops.
• Durham Spirits Company is offering an  Irish cooking class from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. March 17. The menu includes soda bread, house-cured corned beef, beer-braised cabbage, glazed carrots and pearl onions, herbed dumplings and chocolate stout cake. The class costs $59. To register, go to http://www.durhamspiritscompany.com/class-calendar/
   

Durham Spirits Company, a cooking and mixology school, had its grand opening last weekend. Yesterday, I had a chance to chat with owner Katie Coleman, a culinary instructor at The Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham.

Coleman, who graduated from the College of Charleston and the Culinary Institute of America, moved to Durham in January 2010. She decided to turn a historical house at the corner of Trinity Avenue and Elizabeth Street into a school for home cooks. She says she wanted to teach people how to cook in a kitchen similar to their own and focus on using local, seasonal ingredients.

The hands-on cooking classes cost $59 and usually include a three-course meal. The cocktail courses cost $49 and follow one of three formats: a liquor tasting, classic cocktails or a "Garden to Glass" series on creating seasonal cocktails.

For more information or to see a full class schedule, go to www.durhamspiritscompany.com.