Durham baker Katie Meddis has organized a Sweet Relief Bake Sale to help victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.

Meddis, who with her husband plan to open Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop in Durham, has recruited home and professional bakers and restaurant chefs to donate baked goods. The sale will be 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Durham's Fullsteam Brewery.

Among those donating goods are Rue Cler, Toast, Scratch, Guglhupf, Berenbaum's and The Cupcake Bar.

All the proceeds will go to the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties in New Jersey to feed the thousands of people living in shelters.

Here's more information about the bake sale: https://www.facebook.com/events/478474022175823/

Southern Season's cooking school has a series of classes to help with menu inspiration for the holiday season. Here are a few of the classes:

• 6 p.m. Nov. 8, Justin and Katie Meddis of the future Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop in Durham are teaching a Thanksgiving class. The menu includes pork pie, cornbread dressing, fresh cured ham and roasted beets and tarte tatin. It costs $35.
• 5 p.m. Nov. 14, Katie Coleman of Durham Spirits Co. will teach a class on holiday pies and tarts. The class includes instruction on how to make flaky pie crusts, pate brisee and pate sucree, plus walnut streusel pumpkin pie, spiced apple and cranberry pie, bourbon-laced chocolate pecan pie and pear and dried cherry custard tart. The cost is $45.
• 6 p.m. Nov. 17, David Hirsch of the famous Moosewood vegetarian restaurant is teaching a Thanksgiving class. The vegetarian menu includes creamy chestnut soup, a crisp autumn salad, stuffed squash, yams with crystallized ginger and dried fruit and for dessert, hazelnut truffles. It costs $55.
• 2 p.m. Nov. 18, Hirsch will teach how to make a holiday vegetarian feast with the following menu: potato florentine soup, avocado citrus salad, polenta lasagna, figs baked with pistachio and chevre, red cabbage and cranberries and chocolate cherry rugelach. The class costs $55.
• 5 p.m. Nov. 19, the cooking school staff will teach holiday fun food, including sparkling wine cocktails, brisket tacos with guacamole and lime crema, penne pasta with easy chicken sausage and pesto, and milanos for dessert. The cost is $45.

The gourmet food and housewares store is at Chapel Hill's University Mall. To see the full class schedule, go to www.southernseason.com. To register, go online or call 919-929-7133.

Chefs Justin and Katie Meddis, who recently moved here from San Francisco, plan to open Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop one day in Durham. Justin Meddis worked at Ame, a sister restaurant of the James Beard-award-winning Terra in Napa Valley, while his wife, Katie, was a pastry chef at the local food mecca that is Chez Panisse.

Until their butcher shop and bakery become reality, you can taste their food at a June 28 dinner at the King's Daughters Inn in Durham. The four-course dinner will incorporate a whole hog and other ingredients from Coon Rock Farm. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. It costs $55 or $70 with wine pairings.

To buy tickets, go to on their Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/KvFcHC

They also are planning a July 7 dinner at this gorgeous house in Chapel Hill called the Lodge on Pickard's Mountain. Check their Facebook page to see when those tickets go on sale.