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THE PaNTRY - CookING CLassEs At The Pantry at Delancey, the private cooking-class space owned by Brandon Pettit of Delancey pizza (he also owns Essex, the craft cocktail bar next door) and pastry chef Brandi Henderson, everything is about the food and the connection with people. If you want to learn from some of the best Chef's in Seattle while mixing and mingling with other foodies this culinary class is for you. The Pantry likens themselves to a community kitchen. Hosting culinary classes that focus on traditional crafts and techniques, they offer five-course family style dinners, and a culinary camp for kids. If you are looking to try something totally unique sign up for their cookbook club potluck supper. You will keep your cooking time social while trying out chosen recipes from a specially selected cookbook. There's wine and beer to sip, and students are encouraged to participate as much (or as little) as they like. Once it's finished cooking, the food is served family style, and more wine is poured. The Pantry prides itself not only on bringing people together to prepare a memorable meal but on building community in the process. Classes are popular and space is limited (12 - 14 people) and sell out quickly - make your reservations early. BaLLaRD LIBRaRY The $10.6 million dollar Ballard Library opened on May 14, 2005 and has garnered its share of praise and adoration ever since. Who could not look upon this master piece designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and not be inspired? The roof sweeps north to bathe the interior with indirect light; a lower roof section provides an intimate scale for reading along the north wall. And covered porch area provides a civic face along the pedestrian corridor of 22nd Avenue Northwest. A "green roof" is planted with more than 18,000 low- water-use plants. A periscope inside the branch gives people a view of the roof and the Olympic Mountains. Artists Donald Fels, Andrew Schloss and Dale Stammen created the building's computer- generated artwork, which uses data from scientific devices on the roof that measure sunlight, the sound of rain, and wind speed and direction. A complex computer program interprets the data and responds to climactic changes by triggering patterns of motion on LED (light-emitting diode) displays, as well as combinations of sounds. 1417 Northwest 70th Street, Seattle 98117 www.thepantryseattle.com 5614 22nd Avenue Northwest, Seattle 98107 www.spl.org