Parker Hill Provisions is pastry chef Lisal Moran's baking school, founded in 2024. Moran was Classes Director at Quail and Condor, the Healdsburg bakery founded by SingleThread alumni Melissa Yanc and Sean McGaughey, and in her words the classes have since "left the nest": they now run at venues across Sonoma County, mostly in Healdsburg, and she also teaches at the Artisan Baking Center in Petaluma. She studied economics at Claremont McKenna College and worked in management consulting before cooking at Spruce in San Francisco, Station 1 in Woodside, and Baumé in Palo Alto. The class topics rotate seasonally and include croissants, filled pastas, holiday baking, and the Buche de Noel for December.
The classes are hands-on and small, no experience needed, and the takeaway is the bread or pastry you made yourself: the Blitz Puff Pastry class sends every student home with their own pound of pastry. Pricing runs $110-135 per class, three to four hours, and the small-group workshops often sell out, so most classes book a few weeks ahead. The pedigree is the trust signal: Moran learned in some of the Bay Area's top restaurant kitchens, and the classes carry that discipline into the home kitchens of every student who takes one.
