Next month at COOK, there are a number of first timers coming to lead their own classes. Below are a couple of the newbies not to be missed in June (seats can be purchased online by clicking on the class titles):

Sun 6/9, 6pm: A Good For You Drive Thru with Ryan Sulikowski of Farmers Road Drive Thru
Chef Ryan Sulikowski began his culinary career as a high school freshman in a neighbor’s Mediterranean-style restaurant. From there he attended Drexel University with a major in Biology and then went to pursue a formal culinary education at Le Cordon Bleu at the Atlantic Culinary Academy in Dover, New Hampshire.

While attending Le Cordon Bleu, Sulikowski worked at Zampa’s Mediterranean Bistro and was influenced by the way people ate in New Hampshire. Everything was healthy, fresh and locally sourced. It was there that he developed his signature cooking style.

Sulikowski then went on to serve as Sous Chef at Clay Hill Farm in York, Maine before returning to the Delaware Valley to work at Moro Restaurant in Willmington, Delaware, where Sulikowski was solely responsible for the writing and execution of the dessert menu. There, working with sweets became one of his specialties.

In 2012, Sulikowski joined Courtney Rozas’ team as Executive Chef of Lotus Farm To Table in Media, Pennsylvania. The BYOB features healthy dishes, simply prepared in an Asian inspired relaxed environment. Ingredients are always sourced from local farms and combined in non-traditional ways. The menu is complemented by artisanal teas and a Market area filled with Sulikowski’s homemade jams, pickles, dressings and sauces.

In the winter of 2013, Sulikowski embarked on a new challenge as Executive Chef of Rozas’ new The Farmer’s Road, while simultaneously maintaining his duties in the kitchen at Lotus Farm to Table. The Farmer’s Road in Kennett Square is a quick serve fast casual drive through restaurant with an emphasis on healthy, local and eco-friendly ingredients.

Sulikowski’s motto is progression to perfection, “I am young and grounded and I am not afraid to make mistakes while pursuing new dishes, techniques and preparations,” he says, “I am always willing to try new things to make myself and my food better. I am always learning, always evolving, and always trying. When something does not work, I sit and try to ascertain why and how I can make it better.”

Sun 6/30, 2pm: America’s Favorite Desserts with Jessie Oleson Moore, Author of “The Secret Lives
of Baked Goods”
COOKbook author Jessie Oleson Moore is the woman behind the super popular blog Cakespy.com: a Dessert Detective Agency dedicated to seeking sweetness (literally) in everyday life. Sweet dispatches are posted nearly daily, including writeups of bakery visits, decadently delicious recipes and baking experiments, confectionery themed art projects, and more. CakeSpy encourages you to bake (and live) with sweet abandon.

Your Head Spy is Jessie Oleson Moore (and she is responsible for most of the sweetness on this site). Jessie is a freelance writer and illustrator. She was born and bred in coastal New Jersey, and honed her artistic skills at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. After living in New York for many years, she ventured west to Seattle, where she worked at a refrigerator magnet company. She quit her magnetic job to found CakeSpy.com, and even (for a couple of years) owned a gallery in which she sold CakeSpy artwork (you can still buy it online!). Since 2007, she has made an illustrious but modest living as an illustrator and writer focused on the subject of sweets. Her writing has appeared on DailyCandy.com, and has been featured in a weekly column on Serious Eats. She has illustrated for various companies including Microsoft, iPop, All-Mighty, Taylored Expressions, and is a regular contributor to Taste of Home.

Join Jessie at COOK in June when she will demo 3 desserts: Lemon Meringue Pie, Toklas Truffles (the “virgin” version) and Smith Island Cake.

In 2011, she published her first book through Sasquatch Books entitled CakeSpy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar-Filled Life . It was featured on the Today Show, in case you were wondering.

Her second book, The Secret Lives of Baked Goods: Sweet Stories & Recipes for America’s Favorite Desserts , is out this month.