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So, you want to make your own food? How about chocolate and cheese, and right in our own backyard, too.

Every Thursday through the end of the year you can get a beginner course in chocolate making at Newport Chocolates on Williams Street in Newport. Classes run 6 to 8 and cost 35 bucks. You'll go home with a box of handmade chocolates (that they prepared) and a recipe. 401.841.8975

For cheese, the Narragansett Creamery is holding a cheesemaking class Sunday, Nov. 15, from 9 to 3 at Blackstone Caterers on John Clarke Road in Middletown. You'll learn about milk chemistry, cheese identification, wine and cheese pairings, cheese making and affinage - that's the refining of a cheese.

You'll also get a gourmet lunch, cheeses to take home and a cheesemaking kit. The cost is 165 bucks and limited to the first 15 that sign up. www.richcheeses.com and 401.272.4944

The Local Scene You won't go home hungry from any of the three weekly all-you-can-eat buffets at Morin's on South Main Street in Downtown Attleboro. On Thursday nights it's prime rib - for 14 bucks - and on Fridays it's seafood and Sundays it's breakfast, 9:30 to 1. 508.222.9536

Charlie Lask is doing a Neil Diamond tribute dinner show Friday, Nov. 13, at Lake Pearl Luciano's on Creek Street in Wrentham. Hors d'oeuvres are at 6 and the dinner buffet is at 7. Tickets are 40 bucks. www.lakepearl.com and 508.384.3003

Buy a specialty meal and you'll get another entree free with the coupon in the paper for Ruby Tuesday on Route 1 in South Attleboro.

After 3 on Mondays you can buy a bucket of steamers for 16 bucks at The Chieftain on Route 1 in Plainville. www.chieftainpub.com and 508.643.9031

Saturday and Sunday mornings you can get two eggs with a choice of bacon, ham or sausage for 5 bucks at Villa Diana on 1A in Wrentham. 508.384.7553

On Monday nights, 4 to closing, the pizzas are half priced, and Fridays it's karaoke, at Pan City Sports Bar on Man Mar Drive in Plainville. 508.643.2700

The skillet eggs, home fries, blade meat, baked beans and corn bread breakfast dish at the Downtown on 123 in Norton is called the "Norton Singers Show Stopper" in honor of the local musical group. The Norton Singers frequently head out to the cafe after rehearsals, ending the evening for the past 30 years or so with raised mugs singing "The Paddie Murphy Song."

They have crispy Bay of Fundy salmon, wild mushroom ravioli, Maine lobster macaroni and cheese and New England fish stew on the menu at Twenty8, the restaurant inside the new Renaissance Hotel at Patriot Place in Foxboro.

Starting Saturday, and for every Saturday in November, the Picadilly Pub in Tri-Boro Plaza in North Attleboro will donate 10 percent of your bill to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

Greater Boston Sunday is Eat Your Heart Out Boston day, a culinary and musical fundraiser in the Fenway. The chefs will be the center of attention from 6 to 8, and then it's bring out the bands. Tickets are 50 bucks, with proceeds benefiting Future Chefs and ZUMIX.

Chef Jay Hajj of Mike's City Diner will be at Toro's cooking Mediterranean tapas Monday, Nov. 9. 617.536.4300

Tickets are still available for the Sixth Annual Flavors of Fall Monday, Nov. 9. From 5:30 to 8:30 a score of restaurants will be serving up food from their fall menus in the Regattabar at the Charles Hotel. Tickets are 65 bucks. Proceeds support Second Chances, a local non-profit that collects and distributes free clothing to the homeless and to lower income people. 617.441.8600

UpStairs on the Square's seventh annual Bordeaux wine dinner is Thursday, Nov. 12, in Cambridge. Dinner is 85 bucks and begins at 6:30 in the Soiree Room. 617.864.1933

The 'Burbs

The 17th annual Wines of the World tasting by Harrington Wine and Liquors - with over 200 wines and micro-brews and scotch as well - is 5 to 8 Friday at the Radisson on Independence Drive in Chelmsford. Tickets are 35 bucks, 40 at the door. 978.256.2711

Providence Proper

Tucker's Bistro on Broadway has gluten-free menu options. www.tuckersbistro.com and 401.846.3449

There will be two tasting sessions at The Great International Beer Festival Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Rhode Island Convention Center, The first is 1 to 4:30 and the second is 6:30 to 10 p.m. Tickets are 36 bucks. Look for live music and about 300 brews. www.beerfestamerica.com.

At Pearl on Charles Street they have a three-course fixed-price dinner that includes a glass of house wine or domestic beer. It's offered Tuesdays through Thursdays.

Rhody round-up

Costumed volunteers will be serving a colonial dinner at 6:30 on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 at the Smith-Appleby House Museum on Stillwater Road in Smithfield. Tickets are 25 bucks. 401.231.7363

Your seven-entree choice for a 19-buck weekday fixed-price dinner includes wild salmon, veal and chicken at The Little Inn on 44 in Johnston. 401.231.0570

Bon appetit. And if you go, let The Notester know.

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