Cooking with Claire

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Cooking with Claire

Chef & Custom Events Curator based in Buffalo, NY. Currently taking new personal chef clients for healthy meal prep.

Press: https://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/stories/bad-dining-hall-food-leads-to-career-for-mt-airy-chef,10362

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8qek5v/this-chef-wants-you-to-eat-your-grief

03/05/2026

I’m bringing happy snail mail back! Just $8 a pop to cover costs. Please repost to help get the word out to folks. Venmo link in my bio. 💫
Read me talk about the every day of running a friendship club, fave recipes, BTS from pop-up dinners, things I see the neighbors doing from my sunroom (lol), the poetry of chopping vegetables & more...

03/04/2026

Venmo link in bio. Brought to y’all by request - pls repost for any new folks who may be interested! 💫

02/18/2026

Calling all Heated Rivalry fans in Buffalo! Rainbow fam and allies are invited to queer-owned for a 2nd special class guided by Grace, set to the Heated Rivalry soundtrack — including original tracks.

This class is all-levels and no experience required. Take any pose in whatever way feels good for your body. Need a breather? Rest in a comfortable pose as long as you like and rejoin when you’re ready.

This class is sliding scale ($10–$30) to keep it accessible. Please pay what you can. *50% of proceeds will be donated to . TICKET LINK IN BIO.

This collaboration is brought to you by x heart fire yoga! BFC members who want to attend but can’t afford it right now are encouraged to email about claiming a sponsored spot.

02/07/2026

Calling all Heated Rivalry fans in Buffalo!
Rainbow fam and allies are invited to queer-owned for a special class guided by Grace, set to the Heated Rivalry soundtrack — including original tracks.

This class is all-levels and no experience required. Take any pose in whatever way feels good for your body. Need a breather? Rest in a comfortable pose as long as you like and rejoin when you’re ready. And grab a BFC Heated Rivalry fanzine on the way out!

This class is sliding scale ($10–$30) to keep it accessible. Please pay what you can. *50% of proceeds will be donated to Justice for Migrant Families.* TICKET LINK IN BIO.

BFC members who want to attend but can’t afford it right now are encouraged to email about claiming a sponsored spot.
This collaboration is brought to you by x heart fire yoga!

11/16/2025

This is my new phone! Feeling free, and happy to say I’m not going to be on here for hopefully a long while. Please email if you need me. Be well. ❤️

10/22/2025

Baked Sweet Potatoes for day! Rubbed with olive oil, sea salt & freshly-ground Robusta Pepper before roasting, then tops slit open to make room for a hot ladleful of aromatic beef & bean chili. Topped with the last of my garden's chives & borage flowers.

10/14/2025

My next !! On November 12th at , I will serve a multi-course historical meal inspired by five authors, while Maria of tells the story of their time in Buffalo:
1) William Wells Brown, an abolitionist orator & author of fiction recognized as the first authored by an African-American

2) Mark Twain, while he worked for a Buffalo newspaper before novel writing

3) Marian deForest, popular playwright & one of Buffalo's first female journalists

4) Anna Katharine Green, creator of the detective novel (!)

5) F. Scott Fitzgerald's influential Buffalo childhood
More details to come! In the meantime, ticket sales are live. DM for my Venmo details.

10/11/2025

FANTASY FOREST: had an incredible time bringing the vision I had the first time I stepped into .bewilderment to life!! In tradition, this was a luxuriously slow-paced evening, where we invited guests to unwind and indulge in 5 courses (& a surprise amuse!) over a pop-up community table. All dishes, drinks and decor were inspired by food and scenes from fantasy forests including Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, The Hobbit, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. All ingredients were seasonal and many local!

This was a true collab: Cafe co-owner Avery & I brainstormed together, split the menu course design but weighed in on each other's ideas (Avery managed to convince me us handbuilding 12 savory "gingerbread" houses out of shaped rye crackers and cream cheese glue was not the best use of our time 😅🤪). Avery's work was the potato-mushrooms dish, our sunny dessert- and the entire drinks pairings menu! She came up with the tea cup salad idea and I ran with it, plus I designed the soup-in-squash, lotus leaf and duck dishes. 🎉

I brought in 2 carloads of moss, candlesticks, various whimsical tablescape materials, and selected flowers to match the vibe — that Cafe co-owner Paris arranged into woodsy, bewitching bouquets under the kind tutelage of .bflo owner Michael.

It was SO NICE having Paris there to host and help serve, along with help from amazing sous , A+ dishwasher Zach & bartender extraordinare , especially when I'm used to juggling all of the above or just splitting everything with one co-chef!!

There's always a learning curve when you're working with new partners and in a new kitchen, but I think we developed a rhythm, & I look forward to more possible collabs in the future! In the meantime, come find me at with a lavender latte, planning events or dreaming up new pop-up schemes 😘

(Also taking on new private chef clients right now; send me a DM if interested in some fancy, meal prep 😁)

07/31/2025

Tix on sale now- DM me to claim!

Find your inner fairy and join us for a ✨ magical ✨ evening of whimsy at on Thursday, August 27th. Guests will alight around a communal forested table and be treated to courses of fae-inspired fare, starring summer’s best produce and wildgrown treats. Menu TBD but there will be a vegetarian option.
Costumes encouraged.

Please share with any fantasy-loving friends!

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06/21/2025

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05/13/2025

Come out for a cookbook swap!! This event is free for the community, but we do ask all attendees to purchase a drink from our hosts, ! Snacks will be provided by me, and y'all are welcome to pay what you can towards them in person, but if you can't pay anything, that's totally fine too!

Don't have a cookbook you're ready to part with? Check out 's discount section *in person* or peruse !

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Buffalo, NY
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http://www.sobremesa.space/

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Chef & Custom Events Curator now based in Buffalo, New York. Message me to get on my pop-up dinner mailing list or if you're interested in collaborating.