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Kitchen Fundamentals Cooking Series #2: Building Skills

Monday, October 5
$300.00

Learn with confidence. Cook with joy.

Now that you’ve mastered the essentials, it’s time to bring more flavor, confidence, and creativity into your everyday cooking.

This three-session course focuses on the foods you’ll prepare again and again at home. In this section, you will learn a variety of ways to make flavorful soups and salads from scratch, review vegetable categories and explore the different techniques to prepare them and finally dive into wide world of starches and learn to make classic and versatile dishes that will elevate your everyday meals. You’ll discover how thoughtful seasoning, and texture can elevate even the simplest ingredients.

As with every Kitchen Fundamentals course, this is a fully hands-on experience. You’ll practice every technique yourself while building your Joyful Gourmet Kitchen Companion, adding valuable recipes, technique guides, and chef’s notes that will continue to inspire you long after class ends.

You’ll leave with practical skills, greater confidence, and a deeper understanding of how to create delicious meals from the ground up.

Course Details

Three consecutive Monday evenings: October 5th, October 12th, October 19th

2½-hour fully hands-on classes

Limited to 12 participants

Tastes provided throughout each session

Includes your Joyful Gourmet Kitchen Companion, instructional materials, Certificate of Accomplishment, and class photos

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The Joyful Gourmet Kitchen Fundamentals: Building Skills
$ 300.00
10 available
Chef
Matt Zagorski
Matt Zagorski
Date and time
Monday, October 5
6:30pm -
9:00pm
Location
The Joyful Gourmet
542 N Milwaukee Ave.
Libertyville, IL 60048
Cancellation Policy

If you cannot make your reservation, we do encourage you to attempt to find someone that would enjoy attending. We can only issue a credit for you to attend a future event (6 month expiration). Within 72 hours we are not able to offer a credit as we’ve already incurred food and help costs.

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Matt Zagorski

Chef Matt Zagorski has spent more than 20 years teaching Chicago-area cooks how to chop, sauté, whisk, and enjoy their time in a kitchen. A passionate and award‑winning chef, he’s earned over a dozen national pie‑making titles and even enjoyed a moment in the spotlight as a featured chef on the Food Network. Students appreciate Chef Matt’s upbeat energy, approachable recipes, and the way he instantly puts people at ease. Known for turning intimidating techniques into “Oh, I can totally do this” moments, he creates a welcoming environment where everyone feels comfortable asking questions, learning new skills, and having fun along the way. His classes blend culinary know‑how with stories from food history, food science, and the occasional pie‑related adventure. A proud career‑changer, Chef Matt left the corporate world to pursue his culinary training at Kendall College, a decision he jokingly refers to as the most delicious mid‑life crisis imaginable. He lives in Arlington Heights with his wife of more than 30 years, Mary, and their dog, Boomer. Their sons, Zach and Max, have grown up as mostly enthusiastic taste‑testers and lifelong beneficiaries of Dad’s “research and development.”

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