Cook’s calendar

Food events in the weeks ahead

• If you want to learn more about making jams and preserves on a large scale or to sell, Blue Ridge Food Ventures in Fletcher, N.C., outside Asheville, is hosting two workshops Thursday, April 24, and May 12 and 13. Go to blueridgefoodventures.org for more.

• The Sandhills Farmers’ Market, 900 Clemson Road, located at Clemson’s Sandhill Research and Education Center across from the Village at Sandhill, reopens for spring Tuesday, April 29. The market will be open on Tuesdays through Nov. 25 from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Fresh local vegetables, meats, cheeses, plants and a master gardener booth for gardening questions

• The All-Local Farmers’ Market will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 26, in the parking lot of Rosewood Market & Deli on Rosewood Drive. Locally grown produce and breakfast, rain or shine

• PalmettoPlace Children’s Emergency Shelter will host its annual dessert and more competition May 3, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbia. Cost, $65 per person; $110 per couple. Call (803) 786-6819 for tickets.

• Taste sweet-potato ice cream and take part in a sweet-potato baking contest May 10 at the Lower Richland Sweet Potato Festival. Activities are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hopkins Adult Activity Center, 150 Hopkins Park Road.

• The Cayce Farmers Market, 2329 Charleston Highway, is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sundays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Cookingclasses available at Let’s Cook Culinary Studio, 1305 Assembly St., letscookculinary.com, and Fleur de Lys Home Culinary Institute, 3001 Millwood Ave., www.fleur-de-lys.us. Visit both Web sites for schedules and prices.

• The University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum, located on the historic Horseshoe, will host the exhibition “Barbecue Joints & The Good Folks Who Own Them” May 10 through July 19, including a reception and gallery talk with author and photographer David Gelin from 5:30 to 7 p.m. June 13. For more information, call (803) 777-7251. McKissick is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost, free.

Compiled by Allison Askins. Reach Askins at (803) 771-8614.