Food 411
Food & Wine Magazine’s annual Entertaining Showcase opens at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago; $110 ($125 at the door). Participating chefs include Alinea’s Grant Achatz, Stephanie Izard, Graham Elliot Bowles of Graham Elliot and Chris Pandel of the Bristol. Visit foodandwine.com/chicago .
Carnivale, 702 W. Fulton, offers a class at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 on hosting a Latin dinner party, with cooking and cocktail demos by chef Mark Mendez and mixologist Victor Baheza, pairings from wine director Elizabeth Mendez and decorating tips; $35 includes hors d’oeuvres and cocktail samples. (312) 850-5005
Cooking teacher and author Nancie McDermott takes guests on a regional culinary tour of Southeast Asia at a Culinary Historians of Chicago lecture, 10 a.m. Saturday at the Chicago History Museum, 1600 N. Clark; $5. (708) 788-0338.
Get Thanksgiving dinner ideas from Vie’s Paul Virant in a class at 10 a.m. Monday at the restaurant, 4471 Lawn Ave., Western Springs; $120 includes lunch with wine. (708) 246-2082.