2 prestigious events hosted by the DIT School of Culinary Arts to get your teeth into next week. On monday 24th, "Teaching to Taste" a chefs workshop & demo on Tasting & Organoleptics (stimulation of the 5 senses you fool). As well as contributions from within the faculty outside speakers include Ross Lewis of Chapter One, Arun Kapil (Green Saffron) and Euro-toques Chefs Graham Neville. It's free and starts at 3. When you've recovered from that on the thursday it's the 4th DIT Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard Cocktail Competition. Discover more to creative drinks mixing than a Lesson st. sleaze club at 2am on a sunday morning. This is a chance for cocktail waiters and aspiring stirers and shakers to try out new recipes and benefit from the experience and knowledge of fellow colleagues and competitors. Blenders at the ready at 10am. Mine's a Gibson