St. Thomas Heart Healthy Cooking Class: Thanksgiving Buffet Join a cooking demonstration and tasting of herbed oven-roasted turkey breast, garlic couscous, cranberry celestial salad and pumpkin bread with apricot cream cheese spread. Prepared by dietician Kitty Fawaz and chef Scott Reese. Registration requested. 3 p.m., today, St. Thomas Hospital, 4220 Harding Road, 222-3541. Free

Charlemos Spanish features Emi Canahuati, who will speak in Spanish about Planned Parenthood's partnership with the HIV Vaccine Trials Unit at Vanderbilt University. 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Palette Gallery and Café, 2119 Belcourt Ave. E-mail director@scnashville.org for more information. Free

Adoption Conference Two-day conference led by Patricia Johnston, an infertility and adoption educator and author of Adoption is a Family Affair!.